About Showbox

Welcome to Showbox 2026

Showbox, Norway's largest performing arts festival with performances for children and young people, will take place from Tuesday, November 24 to Thursday, November 27, 2026. The festival offers a wide range of performances, talks and discussions about performing arts, and is open to everyone. In 2026, Showbox turned 20 years old.

Curated festival

Showbox is a curated festival. The program is put together by the festival management, and we therefore do not have an open application system for performances. Showbox presents performances with different and clear artistic qualities. We program a wide range of expressions and formats that appeal to different audience groups. In this way, we want to show the range of the performing arts field for children and young people from Norway and abroad.

History and purpose of the festival

Since 2005, Scenekunstbruket Showbox is organized with the aim of strengthening the competence of performing arts for children and young people. Over the past 19 years, the festival has developed into an important national and international meeting place for artists, organizers and others in the performing arts field, where new artistic projects are presented to a wide audience from all over the country.

A gathering place for professional development

Scenekunstbruket sees it as an important task to create meeting places where different environments that work with performing arts for children and young people can gather. In this way, Showbox functions as an equal arena for networking, project collaboration and exchange of experience. The festival aims to stimulate dialogue and strengthen collaboration between players in the field, as well as being a good cultural offering for children, young people and families in the Oslo region.

Program and ticket sales

The festival program is open to everyone, and tickets for both performances and professional events will be available from autumn 2025. The program will be launched continuously.

Youth editorial team Young voices

As in previous years, the festival will be accompanied by a youth editorial team who will share their impressions and experiences on ungestemmer.no. This gives young people a unique opportunity to actively participate in the debate on performing arts.

See you at Showbox 2026!

Through a diverse program of high artistic quality, Showbox creates a platform for both artists and audiences to explore and experience performing arts across borders. Showbox 2026 promises inspiring days full of creativity, new knowledge, and engagement.

Venues and partners

We are fortunate to have several great partners and venues that house Showbox.

Venues

Thanks to all the venues hosting the festival: Black Box Teater, Sentralen , Teater Manu, Kloden teater, Kunstnernes hus, Voldsløkka Scene/skole, and Sofienberg skole. More information about them can be found here .

Partners

We are happy to have several good partners, both in Norway and internationally.

TINFO – Theater Info Finland
DKS Oslo – The cultural school bag Oslo
Kloden Theater
Artists' House
National Theatre
Cultural thought
PAHN – Performing Arts Hub Norway
ASSITEJ Norway