Theatre entertainment in Barcelona
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Teatre Nou Tantarantana
Apart from staging all sorts of contemporary and experimental drama (anything from Harold Pinter to local creations), this cosy theatre also has a kids’ program. These shows tend to start at 6pm (noon on Sundays). The adult theatre productions are at 9pm Wednesday to Saturday, and 7pm Sunday.
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Teatreneu
This lively theatre (with a bustling, rambling downstairs bar facing the street) dares to fool around with all sorts of material, from monologues to social comedy. Aside from the main theatre, two cafe-style spaces serve as more intimate stage settings for small-scale productions. Films are also shown.
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Teatre Llantiol
At this curious place in El Raval all sorts of odd stuff, from concerts and ballads to magic shows, is staged. On Saturday nights at 12.30am there is a regular cabaret-variety slot, a bit of a throwback to another era. About once a month you can see stand-up comedy in English here, too. Check out the Giggling Guiri – guiri is a slang word for foreigner – program for upcoming acts, mostly from the UK.
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Teatre Goya
A classic stage that long had its shutters down, the Goya was reopened to much fanfare in 2009. The program is generally mid- to highbrow, complementing partner theatre Teatre Romea. Among the first pieces shown (in Catalan), were Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband and David Mamet’s November.
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Sala Beckett
One of the city’s principal alternative theatres, the Sala Beckett is a smallish space that does not shy away from challenging theatre, contemporary or otherwise, and usually a heterodox mix of local productions and foreign drama.
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Teatre Victòria
This modern (and, on the street, rather nondescript-looking) theatre is on what used to be considered Barcelona’s version of Broadway. It often stages ballet (including the Bolshoi in 2010), contemporary dance and even flamenco.
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Teatre Tívoli
A grand old theatre with three storeys of boxes and a generous stage, the Tívoli has a fairly rapid turnover of drama and musicals, with pieces often not staying on for more than a couple of weeks.
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Teatre Lliure
Housed in the magnificent former Palau de l’Agricultura building on Montjuïc (opposite the Museu d’Arqueologia) and consisting of two modern theatre spaces (Espai Lliure and Sala Fabià Puigserver), the ‘Free Theatre’ puts on a variety of quality drama (mostly in Catalan), contemporary dance and music.
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Teatre Romea
Deep in El Raval, this 19th-century theatre was resurrected at the end of the 1990s and is one of the city’s key stages for quality drama. It usually fills up for a broad range of interesting plays, often classics with a contemporary flavour, in Catalan and Spanish.
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La Fura dels Baus
Keep your eyes peeled for any of the eccentric (if not downright crazed) performances of Barcelona’s La Fura dels Baus theatre group. It has won worldwide acclaim for its brand of startling, often acrobatic, theatre in which the audience is frequently dragged into the chaos. The company grew out of Barcelona’s street-theatre culture in the late 1970s and, although it has grown in technical prowess and received great international acclaim, it has not abandoned the rough-and-ready edge of street performances.
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