Entertainment in Armenia
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Pub Ché
The Che Guevara brand name has moved on to Yerevan with this swanky bar. The AMD2700 cocktails are a little pricey, but it’s still a fun place to soak in the atmosphere of guns, cigars and Che paraphernalia.
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Cheers
A cheerful, youthful pub popular with tourists, diasporan Armenians and locals. There are good tunes and bright staff with a lethal array of drinks.
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National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. The Opera House has a concert hall and a theatre for opera and ballet. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Chamber Theatre
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Arno Babadjanian Concert Hall
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Hovhannes Tumanyan Theatre of Marionettes
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Hrachia Ghaplanyan Drama Theatre
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Hakob Paronyan State Musical Comedy Theatre
Billboards by the Opera House and on Abovyan Poghots advertise upcoming events; the Armenia Information office and the Artbridge Bookstore Café can help with tickets and upcoming events. Tickets are a steal for most events. Most theatres close during July and August.
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Kino Nairi
Sometimes shows movies in English one night a week, and has two slightly alternative late-night bars, the 5th Element (movie theme) and Underground, with cabaret on weekends. Expats enjoy the VIP level that can be rented out for private screenings.
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Club One
Fairly exclusive club (there is not even a sign) on Tumanyan. Small but clean inside with thumping house music. It tends to absorb a real late-night crowd when other discos are closing so head here around 3am if you are still awake.
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Poplovok Jazz Café
A café complex centred on a large pond. Poplovok is the one by the side of the pond, with live jazz most nights. Former president Kocharian is a jazz fan and sometimes drops by. Musicians like Chick Corea have played here.
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Buddha Lounge
Eclectic Asian-themed place in the basement of a building on upper Mashtots. The 22-year-old owner was inspired after visiting the Paris original. Good place to down an exotic drink as you pub crawl across the city.
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Relax
Very popular with the young and wealthy crowd, with quite a few expats and Armenian diasporans thrown into the mix. It has an enormous bar, brings in top-notch DJs and serves decent food as well.
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Bravo
This cheerfully weird complex of theme bar-restaurants with dance floors and live music attracts an older crowd as much for its Japanese and European food as the tropical- and jazz-themed rooms.
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Avante Garde Music
Inside a slightly nasty old Russian block, this club hosts jam sessions, jazz and rock bands. Check the schedule on the website. Cover prices vary according to who is performing.
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Astral
Astral is to Yerevan what the Hacienda was to Manchester: ground zero for the dance-music scene. This club is located in a huge underground space next to the Opera House.
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Melines
The most popular hangout is Melines a cellar bar located below the French restaurant. The building is slated for demolition but will hopefully relocate.
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Aqua
Sits over the little Getar River in the park in front of the Yerevan State University. This is one of several café-nightspots in this area, lively on weekends.
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Café Atlantic
This café-bar by the Opera House has pulsing music and a nightclub. It can be a little disconcerting to see children hanging around here until the wee hours.
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Kino Moskva
American blockbusters dubbed into Russian, anyone? Tickets are cheap and there is a bar, an internet club and a nightclub. Nice Soviet-classical balcony.
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Cactus
An ersatz Mexican restaurant (the basics are there but it lacks the spices; meals AMD3000), best enjoyed for the excellent frozen margaritas.
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Kami
Small lounge and part-time disco with Mondrian art theme and dancing on Friday and Saturday. The rest of the week it hosts live music acts.
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Lounge Bar Bunker
Manhattan-style basement club with a chrome and steel entrance. On weekends a DJ mixes rap and techno, turning the place into a miniclub.
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Texas
Sawdust on the floor, wagon wheels, a bull’s head, John Wayne posters and the odd wolf pelt set the scene for the Western-style saloon.
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