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Café 22
This chilled-out theater-club in the informal environment of a café stages experimental contemporary productions like Ni Princesas Ni Eslavas with a three-woman cast, described as being more daring than Desperate Housewives, and more revealing than Sex & the City . The cover price includes a beer, or similar.
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Casa De Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles
This cultural center is set in a gorgeous colonial-style building, complete with arches, patios and bubbling fountains. The modest theater stages plays (free), as well as small concerts featuring local musicians. There is also an exhibition space; pick up a copy of the monthly Cartelera Cultural Coyoacanense , which includes a theater program. The center is located in Santa Catarina's pretty main square.
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Centro Cultural Helénico
One of the city's most prominent of the larger theaters, established in the late '80s, with a vigorous program, including the occasional English-language production. The comfortable Helénico performs everything from comic farce to monologues and drama. Productions take place from Fridays to Sundays and tickets can be purchased at the box office, by phone, Internet or Ticketmaster.
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Cinemark
This Cinemark complex opened in November 2007, as part of the spanking new Plaza Reforma Mall; the company is massive throughout Mexico with a total of 29 complexes (nine in the city). This one has 11 modern auditoriums, equipped with Dolby sound and THX, comfortable seats and digital image. There is a car park and a kick-back lounge-cafeteria.
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Cinemex Casa De Arte
This Cinemex Casa de Arte ( House of Art ) screens independent first-run and foreign films in its four-screen complex, which also thoughtfully caters to the hearing-impaired. The venue is also the annual host to the Muestra Internacional de Cine (International Film Festival), when a selection of some of the most exceptional foreign films is screened.
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Cinemex Palacio
One of over 30 multiplexes in the capital, Cinemex is the largest chain of movie theaters in Mexico City. It was founded back in 1993 by three astute Harvard college students (majoring, naturally, in Business Studies) after regulations were lifted with the new Cinematography Law. Known for their bigger screens, plush carpeting, well- lit interiors and US-style food and drink vendors, back in the mid-'90s this was also the only chain in the world with 100% digital sound.
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Cinépolis Diana
Yet another cinema chain, although Cinépolis has a modest half-dozen complexes. This one has a manageable, six-screen choice with air con, comfortable reclining seats, Dolby sound and a cafeteria. Matinees are shown at weekends. This cinema is also the venue of the Festival de Cine Franco-Mexicano held annually during the second week in November.
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Cineteca Nacional
Film buffs will love the thematically focused film series that are shown here on six screens, with at least one devoted to Mexican cinema. There are cafes and bookstores at the center of the complex, which is located close to metro Coyoacán. In November the Cineteca hosts the Muestra Internacional de Cine , Mexico City's international film festival.
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Contempo Cinema
Located inside the Zona Rosa's Plaza del Ángel shopping center, the Contempo screens contemporary Mexican and international films, with an emphasis on gay and erotic themes, as well as staging occasional theater and cabaret productions.
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El Lunario
Regular weekly cinema screenings take place every Thursday at this see-and-be-seen fashionable theater, film-house, cabaret and good-time bar.
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Filmoteca
UNAM's two cinemas screen films from its collection of over 35,000 titles, selected from an archive (founded in 1960) that has played a pivotal role, not only in Mexican but in international film culture. Among its activities, the Filmoteca actively seeks long-lost films for preservation. It has also played a vanguard role in international film culture, organizing the first Mexican film festival in Paris back in 1963. You can catch the Festival Cinematografíco de Verano (Summer Film Festival) between June to August.
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Foro Shakespeare
Originally a bookshop specializing in theatrical tomes, the Foro opened in 1982 as one of the first venues to stage alternative theater productions. Located in the cosmopolitan surroundings of Condesa, this barriotheater continues to produce an eclectic, often edgy, program, including experimental theater and stand-up comedian shows. The venue includes an exhibition space for local artists and photographers.
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Lumiere Reforma
This theater has four screening rooms with just 50 seats apiece, as well as the technology to show the same film simultaneously in more than one sala . Screens quality art-house and foreign releases with a liberal dose of the quirky and unconventional.
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Teatro Blanquita
There is something very traditional about this theater, located a sombrero-spin from the mariachi musicians in Plaza Garibaldi. One of the city's older theaters, it has long been regarded as the best place in town to enjoy musicals and comedy, as well as popular plays, generally geared toward a family night out. The seats are comfortably cushioned and priced.
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Teatro El Galeón
One of several theaters within this vibrant cultural center, the Galeón stages evocative thought-provoking plays by primarily Mexican writers. Most recently, these have included the acclaimed Rashid 9/11, written by Jaime Magnus, which obtained first prize in the Premio Nacional de Dramaturgia Victor Hugo (a national playwrights' competition) in 2006.
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Teatro Juan Ruiz Alarcón
This plush 466-seat theater, within the university's Cultural Centre, has a large stage and excellent lighting and acoustics, so is the frequent venue for large-cast musicals and similar, as well as Shakespearean and other classic drama.
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Teatro Metropolitán
Artists as diverse as Café Tacuba, Buddy Guy and the Russian National Ballet have played this medium-sized hall near the Alameda Central. An old movie palace dating from the 1940s, the lavishly decorated theater holds around 3000, with an upper deck high above the stage.
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Teatro Polyforum Siqueiros
A friendly small theater auditorium with wrap-around seats surrounding a central stage. The productions regularly include programs designed for children which, even if Spanish does not trip easily off your tiny tot's tongue, can be colorful and entertaining. Classic comedies are also regularly staged.
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Teatro Santa Catarina
A UNAM theater which primarily stages serious drama productions (in Spanish).
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