The music hall in the
Basel City Casino (Staadtcasino Basel), Steinenberg 14, Barfüsserplatz (tel: (061) 225 9393; website:
www.casinobasel.ch) is the musical heart of the city. This is where the Basel Symphony Orchestra (tel: (061) 205 0095; website:
www.sinfonieorchesterbasel.ch) performs. The hall can seat 1,512 people, and the acoustics are among the best in the world. There are three more halls available in the casino for chamber
music concerts, presentations, exhibitions, conferences and traditional company events.
The main venue for musicals and musical theater in Basel is the modern and impressive
Musical Theater Basel, Feldbergstrasse 151 (tel: (061) 699 8899; website:
www.musicaltheaterbasel.ch).
Theater Basel (tel: (061) 295 1133; website:
www.theater-basel.ch) is Switzerland’s biggest theater company to stage productions in the three genres opera, theater and ballet, and it has three venues in two buildings at its disposal. The Grosse Bühne, used for opera and ballet (and sometimes theater) productions, and the Kleine Bühne, used for various kinds of smaller productions, are both housed in the company’s building on Theaterplatz, while the Schauspielhaus in Steinentorstrasse is mainly for theater productions.
Kaserne Basel (tel: (061) 666 6000; website:
www.kaserne-basel.ch) is an exciting cultural center for independent theater, dance and music located in the middle of Kleinbasel north of the Rhine.
Scala Basel, Freie Strasse 89 (tel: (061) 270 9050; website:
www.scalabasel.ch) is another venue where there are frequent drama, dance, music and musical theater performances.
Pathé Küchlin, Steinenvorstadt 55 (tel: 0900 004 040; website:
www.kinobasel.ch) is Basel’s biggest cinema, a multiplex with eight screens located in the city center. The same company (same phone and website) operates two other cinemas nearby:
Eldorado, Steinenvorstadt 67, and
Plaza, Stänzlergasse.
Kitag (tel: 0900 556 789; website:
www.kitag.com) also has three cinemas in Basel:
Studio Central, Gerbergasse 16;
Capitol, Steinenvorstadt 36; and
Rex, Heuwaage, Barfüsserplatz. A wide range of international, independent, regional, cult, alternative and art films are shown at the cinemas run by the
kult.kino group (tel: (061) 272 8781; website:
www.kultkino.ch). They include the
kult.kino Atelier, Theaterstrasse 7; the
kult.kino Camera, Rebgasse 1; and the
kult.kino Club, Marktplatz 34, and
kult.kino Movie, Clarastrasse 2. During the summer months open-air cinemas are popular around Basel. In August there is an open-air cinema at Münsterplatz with one of the world’s largest screens.
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