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ENTERTAINMENT IN PRAGUE

Prague offers a wide variety of entertainment symphony orchestras, opera, musicals,
for its visitors, with something for every taste jazz and folk music. Concerts are performed
and interest. Whether you prefer opera to through out the year, in venues which range
jazz or mini-golf to a football match, there from Baroque palaces to public parks and
is plenty to choose from. Movie buffs can gardens. Even if you don’t speak Czech, you
choose from many of the latest Hollywood can still enjoy the city’s cultural offerings.
blockbusters, a lot of them in English with Some plays can be seen in English, and for
subtitles. For the adventurous, mime and many types of entertainment, music, dance
fringe theatre are both thriving. Prague has and sport, a knowledge of the language
a superb musical tradition, which includes isn’t necessary at all.

Practical Information
The best place to look for
information about what’s on
and where in Prague is in the
English-language newspaper
The Prague Post (see p233). This
provides details of the best
entertainment and cultural
events which will be of interest
to an English-speaking audi-
ence. Those events that are in
English or have translation
facilities are marked. Other
sources of information are the
leaflets and City Guides given
out at the ticket agencies in
the city, such as Ticketpro or
Ticketportal. In addition, there
are two online bulletin boards
in English, www.expats.cz and
http://prague.tv, aimed at A performance of Cosí Fan Tutte at the Mozart Festival
expats and visitors. You can
also buy a booklet called on a variety of local exhibitions, most venues. You can also
Přehled, printed in English concerts and theatre. book tickets in advance by
and available from any PIS writing to, or ringing, the
office. For a comprehensive Booking Tickets venue. Remember that many
rundown of events, buy Culture of the city’s box offices may
in Prague, a detailed monthly Tickets can be bought in not have any English speakers
publication listing information advance from the box office at available. Tickets for the opera
or for any of the performances
Puppet Theatre at the National Theatre can
also be booked online. The
Puppetry has a long tradition in Prague and is still strongly more popular events tend to
represented. The most famous puppet show in the city become heavily booked up
is held at the Spejbl and Hurvínek Theatre (see in advance by tour groups –
p219). The show revolves around Daddy Spejbl particularly during the summer
and his reprobate son Hurvínek. Other – and by season-ticket holders.
puppet theatres include the However, standby tickets are
National Marionette Theatre usually available about an hour
(see p219), known for its before the show. If this isn’t
entertaining puppet rendition practical and you want to be
of Mozart’s Don Giovanni. The
Theatre in Dlouhá Street sure of a ticket on a particular
(see p219) and the Puppet day, it is better to buy them
Empire (see p219) also put at a booking agency. The
on puppet shows occasionally. draw back to using agencies,
Check listings (see pp224–5). however, is that commission
Theatre puppets on these tickets can be high,
sometimes doubling the

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