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  1. February (4)

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  2. House of circus: Great catch

    Theater bellevue, Leidsekade 90, Amsterdam

    House of circus: Great catch

    Theater bellevue, Leidsekade 90, Amsterdam

    Great Catch showcases a new generation of makers in a vibrant circus program. The Circuscoalitie has selected three performances that push the boundaries of circus with courage, originality, and innovation. House of Circus presents an explosive mix of circus and drag, filled with glitter and humor. Knot on Hands plays with the (im)possibilities of partner acrobatics, creating a hypnotic movement language. On a Cyr wheel without screws, Fenja Barteldres transforms the circular ring into a completely new apparatus. Great Catch invites you to discover the many faces of circus. Catch it if you can!
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  3. House of circus: Great catch

    Bijlmer parktheater, Anton de Komplein 240, Amsterdam

    House of circus: Great catch

    Bijlmer parktheater, Anton de Komplein 240, Amsterdam

    Great Catch showcases a new generation of makers in a vibrant circus program. The Circuscoalitie has selected three performances that push the boundaries of circus with courage, originality, and innovation. House of Circus presents an explosive mix of circus and drag, filled with glitter and humor. Knot on Hands plays with the (im)possibilities of partner acrobatics, creating a hypnotic movement language. On a Cyr wheel without screws, Fenja Barteldres transforms the circular ring into a completely new apparatus. Great Catch invites you to discover the many faces of circus. Catch it if you can!
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  4. Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Drag Race Holland stars My Little Puny and Keta Minaj bring a unique performance that goes beyond entertainment. This is drag as expression, resistance and sometimes sheer survival. We celebrate drag as an art form, but also show the vulnerability behind it. Showgirls Don't Cry is an ode to queerness, pride and chosen family a performance that must be seen right now.We take you backstage, beyond the glitter and behind the make-up, and let you feel what it means to exist outside the norm.

    Please note: the show will be performed in Dutch.
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  5. Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Drag Race Holland stars My Little Puny and Keta Minaj bring a unique performance that goes beyond entertainment. This is drag as expression, resistance and sometimes sheer survival. We celebrate drag as an art form, but also show the vulnerability behind it. Showgirls Don't Cry is an ode to queerness, pride and chosen family a performance that must be seen right now.We take you backstage, beyond the glitter and behind the make-up, and let you feel what it means to exist outside the norm.

    Please note: the show will be performed in Dutch.
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  1. March (3)

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  2. Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Drag Race Holland stars My Little Puny and Keta Minaj bring a unique performance that goes beyond entertainment. This is drag as expression, resistance and sometimes sheer survival. We celebrate drag as an art form, but also show the vulnerability behind it. Showgirls Don't Cry is an ode to queerness, pride and chosen family a performance that must be seen right now.We take you backstage, beyond the glitter and behind the make-up, and let you feel what it means to exist outside the norm.

    Please note: the show will be performed in Dutch.
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  3. Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Showgirls don't cry

    Kanteen25, Kattenburgerstraat 5, Amsterdam

    Drag Race Holland stars My Little Puny and Keta Minaj bring a unique performance that goes beyond entertainment. This is drag as expression, resistance and sometimes sheer survival. We celebrate drag as an art form, but also show the vulnerability behind it. Showgirls Don't Cry is an ode to queerness, pride and chosen family a performance that must be seen right now.We take you backstage, beyond the glitter and behind the make-up, and let you feel what it means to exist outside the norm.

    Please note: the show will be performed in Dutch.
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  5. Girls Won’t Be Girls

    Bijlmer parktheater, Anton de Komplein 240, Amsterdam

    Girls Won’t Be Girls

    Bijlmer parktheater, Anton de Komplein 240, Amsterdam

    De winnaar van de Winq Diversity Award 2024 presenteert: Girls Won’t Be Girls.

    We breken door hokjes, dichte deuren en glazen plafonds. Toch zijn niet alle kansen voor iedereen gelijk. We rukten ons los uit het korset, maar de touwtjes bleven veelal in andere handen. Hoe blijven we samen sterk? Hoe schrijven we samen het verhaal van onze gedeelde toekomst?

    Girls Won’t Be Girls is de plek waar we samenkomen om eindelijk even op adem te komen, elkaar aan te kijken en te voelen wat vrouwelijkheid voor ieder van ons betekent of om al die ideeën juist eens flink op te rekken.

    Elke voorstelling brengen acht wisselende performers (v/x/m) een spectaculaire ode aan vrouwelijkheid in ál haar vormen. Door muziek, dans, cabaret, verhalen en poëzie raak je tot tranen toe geroerd, rol je van je stoel van het lachen, of blijf je nog dagen lang napraten. Tip: neem je activistische oma, je nieuwsgierige vriend of favoriete puber mee.
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  1. April (4)

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  2. My body is a temple, until it isn’t

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    My body is a temple, until it isn’t

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    n auto-fictional theatre performance by two (trans) non-binary lovers during their personal search for physicality, identity, and gender. Against the backdrop of an increasingly radicalizing world, they explore a more unguarded, unapologetic attitude by claiming their bodies as a construction site rather than a temple.

    At the center of the stage stand two folded, twisted aluminum cubes, partially covered by semi-transparent latex curtains. The set evokes both a nightmare-like operating room and an industrial cocoon or a life-size three-dimensional puzzle. In any case, this space embodies the inner world of An and Lucian—this is their space. Here, they do not have to apologize and can shamelessly explore their trans identity.

    Both have a curious and complex relationship with their bodies, as a result of dysphoria, endless attempts to accept their biologically assigned sex, socially imposed transphobia, or simply because bodies can be alienating. In any case, they attempt to gain control over this physicality by adapting it to their own vision. They experiment with orthoses—sculptural bodily extensions that allow them to redefine everything. This act of redefining takes place out loud, with the audience as accomplice. New extensions are tested, old beliefs are dismantled. Again and again, the knife goes in—literally and figuratively.

    Their bodies are approached as a construction site: fluid, unfinished and in constant transition. This claim shifts the perspective away from sexualization, misgendering, and dysphoria, toward play, pleasure, euphoria, and self-determination.
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  3. And God saw that it was almost good...

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    And God saw that it was almost good...

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    Maybe a remake is needed? But how? One big foot on the bottom end? Straight up or on fours? Or six or eight? Appendixes? Hair or no hair, can it change color? How is that better?

    In the cosmic studio experiments with forms and ideas take place. The work of art, is subjected to a profound introspection. Bizarre and failed creatures pass by, while god (she/he/X) searches for improvement. A fresh look at the infinite story of creation.
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  4. Queere Tiere

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    Queere Tiere

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    With Queere Tiere (Queer Animals), Daniel Hellmann, Coco Schwarz and their artistic alteregos Soya the Cow & Piano Prince invite us to dive into a fascinating world where hermaphroditic snails, homosexual hyenas and transgender chimpanzees coexist. Between stories and songs, between post-dramatic opera and drag show, they create a multi-faceted stage space around the diversity of sexuality, love and lifestyles in the animal kingdom. Starting from their personal point of view as queer human animals, they tell stories about real queer animals and animals from myths and fairy tales.

    Queere Tiere presents an image of nature freed from the constraints of heteronormative interpretation and transmission, making visible and celebrating life in all its richness and variety.

    English spoken.
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  5. Raíz de la Ceniza

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    Raíz de la Ceniza

    By QPFA @ Plein Theater, Sajetplein 39, Amsterdam

    The play Raíz de la Ceniza (Root from Ash) arises from the need to recover and make visible the memory of the Lenca people, one of the oldest Indigenous peoples of Honduras, whose history has been marked both by resistance and by the violence of colonization and the subsequent processes of cultural erasure.

    In various oral accounts collected in Lenca communities, the memory is kept of women who were murdered for defending life, the land, and the continuity of their culture. The figure of the woman becomes a double symbol: on the one hand, victim of historical oppression and cultural extinction; on the other, guardian of ancestral knowledge and of the spiritual strength that sustains the people.

    To represent the Lenca woman on stage is both an act of homage and an act of denunciation. Her story embodies the fracture caused by conquest and by a modernity that devastates, but also the hope that through art, the voices of those who were silenced can be reclaimed.

    At the same time, Raíz de la Ceniza seeks to address our present: in a world threatened by the climate crisis, Indigenous peoples teach us that caring for water, the forest, and the land is not only an ecological duty, but also a spiritual and communal act.

    To remember the women who were killed defending nature, to remember the cultural extinction that was imposed, is also to remember that we still have time to reconnect with what is essential.

    The play thus becomes a scenic ritual that weaves together memory and action, pain and hope, and the ancestral root with the future.
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  1. May (1)

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  2. Sasha Velour

    RAI Theater, Europaplein 24, Amsterdam

    Sasha Velour

    RAI Theater, Europaplein 24, Amsterdam

    On Friday, May 23, 2026, world-famous drag artist Sasha Velour will perform her brand-new stage show, Travesty, at the RAI Theater in Amsterdam. The performance is part of Velour's European tour and promises a radical, visually stunning evening that brings together drag, performance art, and queer history.

    Travesty is an 80-minute, one-queen show without intermission, written and directed by Sasha Velour herself. In the performance, she takes the audience through the hidden queer history of a single location through time: from a witch burned at the stake to a clown building a theater and an underground gay bar rebelling against police brutality. With impressive lip-sync performances, layered costumes, and powerful imagery, Velour explores themes of existence, resistance, and the transformative power of drag.

    The show is both performance art and a call to action. Travesty celebrates drag as a universal art form and emphasizes that playing with gender, identity, and stories is as old as humanity itself. As Velour describes it: "This is the purest and most radical form of drag I've ever brought to the stage. No excuses, no explanations, just art."

    Sasha Velour achieved global fame as the winner of RuPaul's Drag Race and is praised for her emotional live performances and iconic visual style. She previously toured internationally with the successful shows Smoke & Mirrors and The Big Reveal, and performed at leading venues such as the London Palladium and Folies Bergère.
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  2. We are them

    Melkweg, Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

    We are them

    Melkweg, Lijnbaansgracht 234a, Amsterdam

    Get ready for the biggest drag show in the world and the defining drag event of WorldPride Amsterdam 2026!

    Warner Talent Agency in association with DRAGS OF ANARCHY present: We Are Them - A Global Drag Race Extravaganza. We Are Them brings together a jaw-dropping, international cast of the biggest drag superstars from across the globe united on one stage for one unforgettable night. This is drag without borders, without compromise, and without apology.

    Expect high-octane performances, iconic looks, and world class talent, all celebrating the power of drag as an art form that connects cultures, communities, and identities. Loud, proud, glamorous, and defiant: this show stands at the heart of WorldPride 2026, boldly proclaiming that drag is not a crime, but a fearless celebration of joy, visibility, and global queer unity.

    One night. One global stage. One unapologetic message: We Are Them.
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