Theatre entertainment in Mexico City
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Casa de Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles
This cultural center is set in a gorgeous colonial-style building, with arches, patios and bubbling fountains. The modest theater stages plays (free), as well as small concerts featuring local musicians. There’s 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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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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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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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 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 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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El Bataclán
A theater within a club (La Bodega), this intimate cabaret showcases some of Mexico’s more offbeat performers, with frequent appearances by the wonderfully surreal Astrid Haddad.
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Teatro Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina is home to Teatro Santa Catarina, a UNAM theater which primarily stages serious drama productions (in Spanish).
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Centro Cultural Helénico
Complex includes 450-seat Teatro Helénico for major productions and cabaret-style La Gruta theater.
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