English Theatre in Amsterdam
Mike’s Badhuistheater is Amsterdam’s home for international and English-language theatre, in a former bathhouse in Amsterdam-Oost.
We stage around 100 performances a year, as we have since 1985, and present many different companies all year round.
We’re run by an international collective of professional theatre artists who work together on festivals and programming.
Agenda: badhuistheater.nl/agenda
We also organise theatre workshops and acting training.
Tickets: badhuistheater.weticket.io
We put on new plays and classic plays, in English, Dutch, Czech, Polish, Italian and more, with the best English-language theatre from the Association of International Theaters of the Netherlands.
Welcome! Opinions and ideas about theatre in 2026, its uses and abuses, are aired here. Feel free to mail us: perhaps we will put yours on the website.
See also: face-it-theatre.nl
Articles and reactions: badhuistheater@gmail.com
Tickets: badhuistheater.weticket.io
Mail: badhuistheater@gmail.com
Call: 06 1117 3324
Flashback / Archive
The “Play(boy) Girl of the Western World” by Synge
Benefit: Gogol for Ukraine
Oost Online: The Playgirl of the Western World at the Badhuistheater
IamExpat article on the Badhuistheater
Review: The Good Soldier Svejk, Oost Online, November 2019
Comedy Shakespeare: “Henry 5th and Fools”
2018, 2019 and 2020 saw 16 sold-out shows from our own company: Entertaining Mr Sloane and Blackadder Part 2.
2019: The Good Soldier Svejk, Part 1
70% of our 60 shows in 2019/20 sold out.
Why “International”?
Because we are a truly international group. Our actors come from the Netherlands, the UK, Ireland, Italy, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Russia, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Hungary and Cyprus. Together with our Dutch, British, Afghan, Turkish, Brazilian and Czech stage crew, we bring you great English-language theatre.
Mike’s Badhuistheater, Amsterdam
But local too, right?
Yes! Badhuis International trains young and aspiring actors, and brings younger and more experienced actors together through English-language theatre. The company trains and runs workshops every week, all year round.
What kind of English-language theatre do you do?
We share the joys of English-language writers with our Dutch and international audience.
We perform classic English television comedies, Irish tragedies and much more.
And we remind people of the wonder of live theatre.
Entertaining Mr Sloane promo
