Built in 1982 at the rear of the Kurgastzentrum, the Kurtheater seats 698 in rows of red theatre chairs and carries most of the year-round programme of a spa town in the Lippe hills. Touring visitors return regularly — Justus Frantz, the Russian National Ballet, the New York Gospel Stars — alongside work from the district itself: the local ballet school, regional orchestras, gospel choirs. A small stage in the theatre bar and a bandstand in the Kurpark take the rest.