THEATRE

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

Peter Shaffer’s Masterpiece AMADEUS Bids Farewell to the Stage in Its 8th Season!

Starring Selçuk Yöntem, Tansu Biçer, and Dilan Çiçek Deniz & Özlem Öçalmaz, Amadeus invites audiences into the fascinating world of Mozart and Salieri under the direction of Işıl Kasapoğlu.

A Masterpiece of World Theatre

Written by Peter Shaffer, Amadeus explores the relationship between two of the most important figures in music history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri, and is regarded as one of the most compelling classics of contemporary theatre.

Sold Out for 8 Seasons

Since its premiere, Amadeus has captivated audiences, selling out every performance and reaching more than 500,000 spectators, making it one of the most-watched productions in the history of Turkish theatre.

Masterful Names on the Same Stage

Selçuk Yöntem portrays Antonio Salieri, while Tansu Biçer takes on the role of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Dilan Çiçek Deniz and Özlem Öçalmaz alternate in the role of Constanze Weber.

Mozart’s Genius, Salieri’s Obsession

Salieri’s story unfolds as he becomes torn between admiration and jealousy in the face of the rise of the young and brilliant composer Mozart. Passion, ambition, faith, and the struggle for power transform the story into an unforgettable theatrical experience.

A Grand-Scale Production

With a cast of 70, striking stage design, period costumes, and powerful performances, Amadeus creates a magnificent world on stage.

A Story at the Heart of Music

Accompanied by Mozart’s immortal compositions, the production offers a unique experience in which music is not merely heard but felt as an integral part of the story.

An Award-Winning Production

Amadeus has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Afife Theatre Awards, Direklerarası Audience Awards, and GQ Men of the Year.

A Success Story Beyond the Stage

Featuring the world’s first playable typeface, Amadeus has also received numerous awards in marketing and advertising, including the Kristal Elma, Felis, and ADC Awards.

The Rise of a Genius, the Fall of a Man

Walking the fine line between admiration and jealousy, Amadeus takes audiences on an unforgettable journey between Mozart’s music and Salieri’s conscience.

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

It all begins with a list written by a six-year-old child.

A list of the most wonderful things in the world.

A list of things worth living for.

– Ice cream – Water fights – Being allowed to stay up late and watch TV past bedtime

When the child learns that their mother has been hospitalized for not finding a reason to live, this list—written as a gift for her—gradually transforms into something that changes their perception of life itself over time.

Duration: 60 minutes

Age limit: 15+

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

Arthur Miller’s Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning masterpiece Death of a Salesman comes to the stage as a Zorlu PSM production with contributions from Rönesans. With its timeless story centered on dreams, ambition, and family bonds, the play invites audiences on a deeply moving journey through the hopes, disappointments, and family relationships of Willy Loman, revealing the fragile reality behind the American Dream.

The production is directed by Rufus Norris, who served as Artistic Director of London’s National Theatre from 2015 to 2025. The stage design is created by Olivier and Tony Award-winning designer Es Devlin, while the costumes are designed by Tony and Olivier Award winner Katrina Lindsay, known for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which continues to run in London. Lighting design is by Oliver Fenwick, whose work includes major productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, English National Opera, and the West End. The music is composed by Oğuz Kaplangı, internationally recognized for representing Türkiye through his acclaimed projects, while the soundscape is shaped by Tony Award-winning sound designer Adam Cork. Olivier Award-winning choreographer Javier de Frutos adds a powerful movement language to the production through a striking ensemble interpretation.

Returning to the theatre stage after a long hiatus, Halit Ergenç takes on the role of Willy Loman. He is joined by one of Turkish theatre’s most acclaimed performers, Zerrin Tekindor, alongside Fatih Artman, Kerem Arslanoğlu, Kubilay Karslıoğlu, and Beyti Engin. With its large ensemble cast, the production brings 1940s America to life with intense emotional depth. Combining powerful performances, striking stage design, and a contemporary directorial vision, this unforgettable interpretation of a classic promises audiences a remarkable theatrical experience. Don’t miss this special production where a timeless text meets a modern staging.

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

A successful politician, a former lawyer struggling with addiction from his past, and secrets that come to light in a single day… The seemingly perfect marriage of Mine and Tarık is shaken to its core as the truths they have kept hidden emerge, leading to a devastating reckoning. Through two people caught between love, loyalty, power, addiction, and conscience, Change / Transformation explores the price of the human desire to change both the world and oneself, bringing it to the stage with razor-sharp humor and dizzying character shifts.

In 2025, Thomas Ostermeier, who directed Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Cate Blanchett at London’s Barbican Theatre, now directs a theatre production in Türkiye for the first time. One of the most influential and acclaimed directors in world theatre, Ostermeier’s staging of a play in Türkiye with a local cast and production team marks a historic moment for Turkish theatre.

Written by Maja Zade, the play made a major impact at Berlin’s Schaubühne. It brings Timuçin Esen back to the stage after 20 years, sharing the spotlight with award-winning theatre actress Funda Eryiğit. In this production, adapted into Turkish by Timuçin Esen, the two actors portray a total of 22 different characters, delivering an extraordinary showcase of acting.

Duration (excluding intermission): 120 minutes

Age Restriction: 13+

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

A successful politician, a former lawyer struggling with addiction from his past, and secrets that come to light in a single day… The seemingly perfect marriage of Mine and Tarık is shaken to its core as the truths they have kept hidden emerge, leading to a devastating reckoning. Through two people caught between love, loyalty, power, addiction, and conscience, Change / Transformation explores the price of the human desire to change both the world and oneself, bringing it to the stage with razor-sharp humor and dizzying character shifts.

In 2025, Thomas Ostermeier, who directed Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Cate Blanchett at London’s Barbican Theatre, now directs a theatre production in Türkiye for the first time. One of the most influential and acclaimed directors in world theatre, Ostermeier’s staging of a play in Türkiye with a local cast and production team marks a historic moment for Turkish theatre.

Written by Maja Zade, the play made a major impact at Berlin’s Schaubühne. It brings Timuçin Esen back to the stage after 20 years, sharing the spotlight with award-winning theatre actress Funda Eryiğit. In this production, adapted into Turkish by Timuçin Esen, the two actors portray a total of 22 different characters, delivering an extraordinary showcase of acting.

Duration (excluding intermission): 120 minutes

Age Restriction: 13+

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

Ferhat Göçer presents Opia – “Love at First Sight” at the Turkcell Platinum Stage! The production is an impressive musical theatre performance that brings together both music and theatre on one stage. Inspired by the artist’s album “Opia”, the show conveys the magic of love at first sight through deep melodies, powerful lyrics, and compelling acting performances. Blending Ferhat Göçer’s music with theatrical storytelling, this special production offers audiences an emotional journey that questions the many dimensions of love and delivers a deeply moving experience.

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

(One act; 85 minutes)

As the flow of time gradually unravels, the delicate lines of memory begin to fade; familiar faces become strangers, and the boundaries of what we know disappear.

Reality and imagination, yesterday and today, dissolve and intertwine within the bond between a father and daughter.

Baba offers an experience of a journey suspended between remembering and forgetting, inviting us to reconsider what it means to be human in the face of time.

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

In partnership with Afife Tiyatro and Zorlu PSM, at Zorlu PSM Turkcell Sahnesi throughout the new season.

"To be a woman in this world: If you want to exist, you must burn. While burning, you must light the way for those who follow you. You must sacrifice yourself."

"Afife is a light, a symbol who has inspired generations of theatre artists and courageous women, guiding the way through dark times like a lighthouse. This is a contemporary interpretation of Afife’s rebellion against a system that forbade women from taking the stage and being seen, and of her wholehearted desire to exist on stage. Set backstage at a multicultural theatre troupe in occupied Istanbul, whose front line is the stage itself…"

Duration: 120 minutes, one act.

Afife is a fictional theatre company’s story, inspired by the life of Afife Jale.

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

“TOZ,” which premiered in November 2021 and received the Afife Theatre Award, has captivated theatre audiences with more than 350 performances to date. The play continues to meet audiences in its sixth season.

A young girl growing up on the streets and in front of apartment buildings of a big city, back when concrete had not yet pierced the sky. Handan is the only daughter of a beautiful homemaker mother and a meticulous lawyer father. Growing up through times when the streets, much like the home she shares with her parents, are filled with unease, she eventually finds her own way and becomes a young woman...

Her head and heart are filled with voices: a melody coming from somewhere far away, birds, the sound of railway tracks, the rustling of a joyful gift package, the voices of her mother, father, grandmother and aunt... Then, suddenly, several sounds of “crack,” echoing at different times against the walls of different homes...

When we meet Handan as an adult woman, she will already have immersed herself in a story stretching from her childhood to the present day. The story of Handan and her mother Feri, emerging from the depths of her memory, unfolds across a narrative spanning from the 1960s to the present.

Written by Murat Mahmutyazıcıoğlu, this one-woman play, whose story intersects with the lives of many, meets audiences under the direction of Hira Tekindor, with a performance by Zerrin Tekindor.

Duration: 65 minutes Age Limit: 13+

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

The near future… We are in a world struck by the climate crisis! Something strange has happened, almost like the apocalypse—but not quite! A nomadic community called the Parasites has emerged, unwanted by every country. A boy named Diyar! He is one of the storytellers of this new society. Every evening, he gathers the Parasites around the fire and tells them a story with his darbuka, taking them back to the first days of the apocalypse.

A story of betrayal!

The early days of the climate crisis! We are in Istanbul! A major uprising alongside growing hunger and famine! A conservative movement called İzan, turning the crisis into an opportunity! And Leylâ, a mysteriously “strange” girl who changes the course of Diyar’s entire story!

In a time of great fires, disease, migration, bloodshed, hunger, and thirst, one question becomes more important than all others: As the world we know slips away from us, whose hand will we hold, and alongside whom will we walk?

“That night, the first bombs exploded! The ground shook beneath our feet! We went outside! The sky had turned red like hell! Everything was blazing! Maybe they had bombed Istanbul in thirty different places at once!

‘They’re coming,’ Leyla said.

There was something so strange in her voice… Like fear, but not quite…

‘Who’s coming?’ I asked.

She didn’t say a word… She didn’t even turn around…

But I looked! The whole fire was reflected on her face! Her black hair was glowing crimson! The fire spun in her pupils like a whirlpool!

I forgot about the fire and everything else. Because love! Love is being able to turn and look at just one person while entire cities are burning!”

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

“One night, one table, a lifetime story…”

The gazino lights come on. The glittering stage calls you in. The moment you step through the door, you are no longer simply an audience member; you take your seat at the table and find yourself at the very heart of the story.

With Ladies and Gentlemen Dario Moreno: A Gazino Story, award-winning artist Kosta Kortidis, who received the Best Actor awards at the 10th International Anatolian Awards and the 12th International New Theatre & New Cinema Magazine Awards, captivates the audience as the sole performer on stage in this play he has written and directed. Moreno’s story comes to life step by step within the magical atmosphere of the gazino; every glance and every song is directed straight at you, eye to eye, heart to heart. Behind him is a four-piece live orchestra led by Music Director Altuğ Akınsel… As the first notes fill the room, you find yourself travelling back in time to another era beneath the gazino lights.

This is not merely a play. It is an invitation. It is a night you will never forget. A story to be experienced at Moreno’s table.

“Ladies and Gentlemen Dario Moreno: A Gazino Story is a gazino story inspired by the life of Dario Moreno.”

The event is performed in Turkish. It is not suitable for audiences who do not speak Turkish.

A successful politician, a former lawyer struggling with addiction from his past, and secrets that come to light in a single day… The seemingly perfect marriage of Mine and Tarık is shaken to its core as the truths they have kept hidden emerge, leading to a devastating reckoning. Through two people caught between love, loyalty, power, addiction, and conscience, Change / Transformation explores the price of the human desire to change both the world and oneself, bringing it to the stage with razor-sharp humor and dizzying character shifts.

In 2025, Thomas Ostermeier, who directed Chekhov’s The Seagull starring Cate Blanchett at London’s Barbican Theatre, now directs a theatre production in Türkiye for the first time. One of the most influential and acclaimed directors in world theatre, Ostermeier’s staging of a play in Türkiye with a local cast and production team marks a historic moment for Turkish theatre.

Written by Maja Zade, the play made a major impact at Berlin’s Schaubühne. It brings Timuçin Esen back to the stage after 20 years, sharing the spotlight with award-winning theatre actress Funda Eryiğit. In this production, adapted into Turkish by Timuçin Esen, the two actors portray a total of 22 different characters, delivering an extraordinary showcase of acting.

Duration (excluding intermission): 120 minutes

Age Restriction: 13+