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Berlin / Cologne (dpa) - Longer theater closings are regrettable from the point of view of the German Stage Association.
In some cities, stages are to remain closed until Easter due to the pandemic.
That gives a certain planning security, but a closure of a total of five months is "a long time," said the managing director Marc Grandmontagne on Friday.
Nationwide theaters, opera and concert halls, but also many other facilities have been closed again since November.
The restrictions are initially limited to the end of January.
At some theaters a longer break is already planned.
Berlin's Senator for Culture Klaus Lederer (left) had announced that the stages in the capital will probably remain closed until Easter, i.e. until the beginning of April.
In Hessen, too, some theaters are supposed to stay that long.
The state theaters in Karlsruhe and Stuttgart are planning to close until the end of March, and the Semperoper and Staatsschauspiel are also to remain closed in Dresden.
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"From April we need a perspective," said Grandmontagne from the German stage association in Cologne.
"After that we have to be there at the openings."
He thinks it is conceivable that museums might first reopen.
But then theaters, concert halls and cinemas would have to follow, Grandmontagne told the German press agency.
German stage association