Theater De Verbeelding is Purmerend's main municipal theatre, hosting a varied programme of drama, music, cabaret and family shows. The auditorium has a traditional theatre layout and welcomes both regional companies and larger national productions. It serves as the primary cultural hub for the city and surrounding area.
Purmersteenweg 17-19
Mr. Ferocious opens the season with crackling rock 'n roll, murder ballads and steampunk country. Ten years of unpolished energy with guitar, bass, drums and a Chevrolet Suburban.
Brothers Jeroen and Martijn van Arkel, finalists at the Amsterdam Kleinkunst Festival 2025, present their try-out 'Say You' - a dry-comic show about growing up and brotherhood.
Eran and machine Eva explore artificial intimacy in this philosophical comedy about virtual friendship, desire, and what is at stake when human friction fades away.
Multidisciplinary performance exploring femininity, queerness and emancipation, bringing together theatre, music, dance, drag and cabaret performers with members of the queer community.
Tom Lanoye performs his award-winning novel ReinAard as a full-length solo show - a verbal tour de force brimming with humour, cruelty and sharp satire on power and deception.
Marieke Heerema's 'Born for Nothing' explores the boundary between production and life through mime, dance and techno. A speculative performance about automatism and worthlessness in an abandoned factory hall.
Gwendolyn Heath presents her performance 'Spiegelkracht' at Theater De Verbeelding in Purmerend.
Musical theatre production by Rast exploring generational trauma, a mother-son relationship, and the pull of online misogyny. Starring AyΕegΓΌl Karaca and Bob Ott.
An intimate musical story about a woman in crisis calling a helpline on New Year's Eve. PATROON explores what it truly means to listen.
DansBlok & KASSETT present KNOOPPUNT, a multidisciplinary performance exploring memory and the body. A philosophical conversation with stand-up philosopher Gerko Tempelman is followed by music theatre, dance and live electronics.
A magical puppet and mime show where a little hare discovers new colours on each adventure, celebrating uniqueness and identity through animation, music and humour.
Femke Arnouts' directorial debut about a woman who becomes invisible and refuses to accept it, starring Carly Wijs and Nanette Edens in an absurdist, visual production.
A musical theatre piece about a woman uncovering her late partner's hidden past and family secrets. An intense exploration of grief, guilt, and the lasting impact of colonial legacy.
MaxTak brings the musical theatre production Pan, a contemporary take on Peter Pan, for children aged 8 and up. A gripping story about freedom, adventure, and the price of both.
Theatrical concert weaving Dante's Inferno with contemporary questions about life. Sterre Konijn explores love and darkness through vocals, theremin and duduk, supported by a rich blend of classical, Gregorian and pop music.
Marjolijn van Kooten performs her psychiatric cabaret with dry humour, sensitive songs and shameless stories about life, death and appreciation.
Theater Rast presents 'Incomprehensible Kingdom', an intense psychological drama about two ex-lovers who reunite and confront their shared past.
Gery Mendes presents 'Na Ruinas', a personal theatre concert exploring his father, identity and family through spoken word, poetry and a blend of traditional Cape Verdean music with hip-hop.
Nicole Beutler presents two avant-garde works: Lucinda Wessels' dance duet Fluid Figures and Timo Tembuyser's erotic concert Isle of Eros, both exploring identity and gender.
Amira al Rawi brings the classic Arabic love story of Layla and Majnun to life through dance, hip-hop and live Arabo-Andalusian music from the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra.
An award-winning interdisciplinary theatre piece where a mother and her son navigate existential questions through hypertechnology, music and human performance, with the audience as active participants.
A dance and aerial acrobatics show for toddlers and preschoolers featuring mirrors, reflections and performers moving high above the stage.
Sadettin K. explores how identity constantly shifts in his solo performance Kameleon - through others' perceptions, time, and his own daughter's eyes.
Club Guy & Roni invites choreographer Mohamed Yusuf Boss for two dance performances: the new work WARQAD exploring rituals of loss, and FREIHEIT examining the tension between freedom and constraint.
Writer Abdelkader Benali and violinist Myrthe Helder present a theatrical performance about encounters in an imaginary Mediterranean cafΓ©, with musicians from Orchestre Partout.
An interactive dance performance for babies and toddlers by Makiko Ito and the Wonderland Collective, where dancers and musicians move around the audience and improvise in response to their sounds.
AndrΓ© Manuel performs his stand-up show 'The Lonely Soul' - an absurdist comedy about the last comedian on Earth forced to entertain artificial intelligence.
A theatrical concert exploring European peace through three historical figures and original songs spanning classical, jazz and protest music.
A visually striking performance by DeRonde/Deroo about survival and fleeting moments of joy, featuring a clown, merman and stand-up comedians each seeking their own way through a world in crisis.
Imaginative children's performance by Simone de Jong exploring what it means to be small in a big world, for ages 4-7.
Mime theatre group Bambie contrasts Disney's romantic Bambi with the darker original by Felix Salten in an absurdist performance about loneliness and coming of age.
Veenfabriek presents an inventive music theatre about Frankenstein, where Schubert's Unfinished Symphony is finally completed. A monstrous blend of industrial horror, synthpop and ritual ecstasy.
DansClick #28 presents new dance work by Faizah Grootens and the BNG Bank Dance Prize winner, featuring dancers Justin Brown and Matheus Moreira. Post-show drinks and informal meeting with the choreographers.
Plankton presents a comic and visually inventive show about humanity's 200,000-year history, with live piano and playful humour. Two actors play the earth while one plays humanity in a chain reaction of hilarious mishaps, suitable from age 8 onwards.
A musical monologue exploring identity and belonging through seventeen journeys between the Netherlands and Curaçao, examining what it means to live between worlds.
Choreographer Kelly Vanneste's dance performance Gamechanger features two performers battling through towering referee chairs in a dynamic blend of acrobatics and movement.
Actress and soprano Marie-Mae van Zuilen makes her Orkater debut with Dolorosa, a musical exploration of forgiveness and humanity accompanied by a male choir.
A musical performance by Dawn Collective about four women navigating migration, friendship, and building a home together in the Netherlands.
Joep van der Aak from JoepTube performs an interactive show about the gap between online persona and real life, featuring live challenges and a chance to appear in his next video.