Stage in Lisboa.
Theatre, dance, musicals, and performance art across Lisboa's stages.
90 events currently running
THEATRE
The Chairs
An elderly couple prepares a momentous conference from their living room. Staged at Teatro da Comuná, this absurdist play explores human connection and meaning.
MUSICAL
Evita
Rock-opera musical at Capitólio tracing the rise and fall of Eva Perón, Argentina's iconic and controversial first lady. Set in the 1930s and 1940s, it follows her dramatic journey.
KIDS
Once Upon a Time...
Children's theatre at Teatro Armando Cortez. Siblings Thomas and Leonor discover a mysterious book in grandfather Agostinho's library, triggering chaos as books fall and stories intertwine.
THEATRE
True West
At Teatro da Trindade INATEL, Austin writes a Hollywood screenplay until his older brother Lee arrives after three months in the desert, disrupting his plans.
THEATRE
Veneno - história de um casamento
A man and woman reunite after ten years of separation. They confront the loss that shattered their marriage and the resentment that separated them.
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Analphabet
A ghost named Analphabet emerges from the sea after a couple's heated argument on Gulpiyuri beach, sharing stories and songs.
THEATRE
Um Interrogatório
Detective Ruth Palmer conducts a voluntary interview with Cameron Andrews, a respected local businessman, in an interrogation room at Teatro Paulo Claro.
THEATRE
D. Juan
Myth confronts permanent change in this reimagining of Don Juan. Identities shift and displace in São Luiz Teatro Municipal's production.
BALLET
Swan Lake
Fernando Duarte's 2013 choreography for CNB reimagines Swan Lake. Built on Tchaikovski's timeless score, it departs from narrative structure.
THEATRE
Burn Burn Burn
Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro and Isabel Costa created this production inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Examines contemporary society's relationship with knowledge and freedom.
COMEDY
A Escola
Boutique da Cultura presents a comedy about João, newly hired at an innovative school. Discover how progressive ideals clash with everyday reality in the classroom.
MUSICAL
Mães
Teatro Villaret presents a heartfelt musical about three mothers and a pregnant woman. A celebration of female friendship, laughter, and tender moments.
DRAMA
Rei Lear
Teatro do Bairro stages Shakespeare's tragedy of a king undone by pride and betrayal. A classic work exploring power, family, and madness on stage.
THEATRE
Eternidade Electro
CAL stages a performance pulsing between intimate memory and collective collapse. A celebration of summer romances that stretch across all seasons.
MUSICAL
Sweeney Todd - the Demon Barber of Fleet Street
At Teatro Armando Cortez, Benjamin Barker returns as Sweeney Todd to avenge his ruined family. A dark musical about vengeance and justice in Victorian London.
MUSICAL
In the Heights
Teatro Variedades stages Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical about a Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York. Before Hamilton, this was Miranda's breakthrough American musical.
DANCE
Pirarucu - Filho de peixe, peixe é
Mandí Kaibô weaves ancestral memories and communal knowledge into the living body through clay, drawing on experience within indigenous community and family lineage.
COMEDY
Alvorada
Alvorada Comedy Club brings stand-up comedy to Lisboa, filling the city's nights with laughter across multiple venues.
THEATRE
Unfinished Silences
Two individuals seek refuge in a confined space as Lisboa faces imminent earthquake threat. Far from urban chaos, the couple transforms their shelter into a stage of memory and emotion.
THEATRE
É melhor ficar descalço 2
Shoes hold secrets of journeys travelled and forgotten stories. The stage transforms into a space where the weight of life and the lightness of dreams meet, traced through footsteps and memory.
THEATRE
Pica Pica Picasso
Sensory spectacle for babies exploring Pablo Picasso's artistic phases. An atelier becomes a world of exploration and discovery, where disappearing drawings unfold into playful visual experiences.
THEATRE
Zum bee doo
Sensory theatre spectacle for babies exploring forest colours and sounds. Images of wetland and forest animals create a living world where trees grow and nature awakens the youngest imaginations.
MUSICAL
Hercules
Filipe La Féria's epic musical creation following the success of Beauty and the Beast. Inspired by the legendary 12 labours of the hero, exploring heroic mythology through song and spectacle.
THEATRE
Scrooge: O Aniversário
If magic could change everything? Grumpy, solitary Scrooge is surprised by three special elves - Ratatá, Brownie and Pixel 3025 - on an urgent mission to awaken joy and wonder within him.
MUSICAL
Mamma Mia Baby!
Premiered last October, this sensory spectacle adapts the Mamma Mia film's musical universe for babies and young children, blending ABBA's timeless songs with interactive discovery.
KIDS
O maravilhoso mundo das fábulas
Since childhood we have heard fables. This spectacle recounts stories where animals speak, exploring the imaginative realm that shaped our sense of wonder and moral understanding.
DANCE
Um Homem e o seu Criado
Two men born identical, two die the same. Between birth and death, two paths cross, intertwine, diverge, and converge. São Luiz Teatro Municipal presents a dance exploring parallel lives and human connection.
KIDS
Amar e mar…
Sensory performance for babies and children up to five years, inviting young audiences and caregivers to discover an ocean of wonder.
COMEDY
In the Shadow of Freedom
Karagöz, the irreverent hero of Turkish shadow theatre, takes the stage at Museu da Marioneta. His reluctant mission and comic adventures explore questions of freedom and resistance.
THEATRE
A verdadeira estória de o Pedro e o Lobo
Pedro seeks his family's attention in a world consumed by phones and screens, a contemporary retelling at Boutique da Cultura.
COMEDY
Insuficiente
Stand-up comedy exploring a lifelong sensation of never being enough. Imposter syndrome, bad luck, or a cosmic miscalculation? A performer's raw interrogation of sufficiency and belonging.
COMEDY
Quem Te Viu e Quem Te Vê
Jel's new solo at Teatro Villaret marks two milestones: 30 years of career and 20 years of the programme Vai Tudo Abaixo.
DANCE
Casa
Dance production at Teatro Meridional inaugurating Rota dos Pequenos Palcos, a new initiative by CPBC bringing dance closer to new audiences and contexts.
THEATRE
Ai que nervos!
One-man show at Academia de Santo Amaro where Miguel Dias shares hilarious stories from his theatre and television work and performs his original songs.
CONTEMPORARY
Orage
O torso e os braços de Dalila Belaza rasgam a escuridão de uma noite transfigurada, enquanto a guitarra de Serge Teyssot-Gay ruge, exulta e escava o ar. A sua intensidade cortante transporta, impuls...
THEATRE
Dead Poets Society
At a boarding school in the United States, Tradition, Discipline, Honour, and Excellence form the pillars of rigid education. A charismatic teacher challenges these foundations, inspiring his students toward individual expression and freedom of thought.
DRAMA
Corações de papel
A life of love, loss, and struggle for acceptance unfolds in this emotional and hilarious play where comedy and drama intertwine. At its centre stands a complex human journey.
THEATRE
Mauser - Em tempo de traição as paisagens são belas
Mónica Calle and Grupo de Teatro do Técnico stage Heiner Müller's words in a battle where the individual fades and obedience crushes desire. A confrontation between power and resistance.
THEATRE
HerAqui
HerAqui is a journey told in twenty-three tales, offering discovery and freedom through performances by experienced and novice actors alike. A collective exploration of voice and presence.
THEATRE
O Cicómero
Sixty-three years after slave imports ended, descendants of liberated slaves inhabit an old Alentejo property. Their story unfolds through memory, labour, and the weight of history.
COMEDY
A mulher do meu marido
Gil and Afonso, a couple living quietly in Lisbon, face upheaval when Afonso's conservative father announces a visit. Misunderstandings and secrets unravel in this comedy of errors.
KIDS
Assim vai o Mundo
Wordless puppet and animated forms show at Museu da Marioneta explores planetary fragility and spaces of hope, inviting reflection on our fragile world.
THEATRE
Os Antípodas
A new team of proven talent searches for reasons to hesitate about the work they've been generously paid to create at Teatro do Bairro Alto.
THEATRE
Dead as a Dodo
Two skeleton friends, a dodo, and a boy search for bones to replace their deteriorating ones before disappearing, angering the Bone King at São Luiz.
THEATRE
O tamanho das coisas
A man stops inexplicably in the middle of an unknown ocean, comparing his body to the overwhelming scale around him at Teatro Variedades.
THEATRE
Dressing Room
Artist performs in an expensive dress consuming much of the show's budget, blending luxury and eccentricity at Escola do Largo.
KIDS
Cabaret Love - HEN
HEN is a unique puppet that defies categorization, with a face and body that are multiple: woman and man, feminine and masculine. A character full of exuberant life.
THEATRE
Milo the Magnificent
A young magician presents a series of magic tricks rooted in scientific experiments. When tricks go awry, unexpected chaos and wonder emerge from the performance.
COMEDY
Cabe Mais Um?
Through humour and imagination, this performance reflects on coexistence, difference, and the capacity to welcome the other. Two cats share a home where everything fits perfectly.
KIDS
Makupuni
A creation by Portuguese-Brazilian collective Cegonha - Bando de Criação for young audiences, blending puppet theatre and animated forms with video elements.
COMEDY
Manual para Sobreviver a Dois
Love is beautiful. Until someone leaves the toilet seat up. Lía, Leo, Lena and Lino present a sharp comedy about the failed art of loving another without losing yourself.
THEATRE
Ninho
Inspired by a simple poem by Miguel Torga, this performance explores how a guarded secret can strengthen true friendship at Biblioteca de Marvila.
THEATRE
Sinédoque
Invoking the rhetorical figure that expresses 'the part for the whole' or 'the whole for the part', this production revisits and reinvents Portuguese poetry from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
THEATRE
Thauma
A poetic journey through wonder, where above and below, background and figure, large and small confuse and merge. A game of perception and spatial reversal.
THEATRE
Noites de Impro
Impromix stages improvisation shows as sequences of games that place performers in escalating challenges. Drawing on audience suggestions, the performance unfolds in real time.
THEATRE
Dono do meu nariz
The nose becomes a springboard for spectacle. From self-esteem troubles tied to this body part to its interior, a surprising journey through identity and anatomy.
THEATRE
A sensitive case
Over 500 mousetraps form a city filled with towers, streets, and buildings. A figure navigates each form and curve through precise footwork and play, exploring a singular space.
THEATRE
Hopeful Monsters
Evolution told through human hands. Simple organisms transform into giant creatures as hands move in unusual ways, creating surprising and unexpected transformations.
THEATRE
Hamlet Am I
Two actors offer their distinct versions of Shakespeare's Danish prince. One unfolds on a table where a wallet spills unexpected objects, each revealing new layers.
THEATRE
Contraste
Improvisation performance about the errors that define us. Every lived moment and decision shapes us, but cannot be repeated. We are always right and wrong.
COMEDY
Em sede própria
Joana Marques reviews her final year on stage. Unable to judge her own case fairly, she presents irrefutable evidence of her flaws, faults, and absurdities with sharp self-deprecation.
DRAMA
Tipping Point
Documentary theatre that places the audience at the centre of a judicial drama, with a representative of a major global energy multinational in the dock.
THEATRE
A biologia da cooperação
Bilingual theatrical investigation inspired by Judith Schalansky's 'The Neck of the Giraffe', exploring cooperation through dialogue and movement.
THEATRE
Hotel Paradoxo
Protagonist chooses to return to summer 2009 in Lisboa during a hypothetical journey through time and space, amid conflicts in Gaza.
THEATRE
Vidro Pantera
Fragments of Heiner Müller's poetry and theatre animate bodies, spaces, objects, masks and puppets. Aristocrats, dictators, soldiers and lovers converse with theatrical figures.
THEATRE
À mesa
A family gathered on Christmas night. Memories, frustrations, dreams and secrets emerge through conversations revealing lost loves, family pressures and the search for identity.
THEATRE
Fake
Three people regurgitate their individual algorithms during a weekly gathering. Absorbed by machines created by 'digital techno-capitalism', omnipresent and arguably omnipotent.
MUSICAL
Rent
Musical following a year in the lives of bohemian friends struggling to survive in East Village, New York during the 1990s, celebrating love and perseverance.
THEATRE
Viva!
Fifty years after his grandfather Pepe killed his grandmother María in a small Castilian village, Daniel Olmos knows Spanish Civil War history and countless anecdotes about Pepe, yet ignores the truth.
THEATRE
Loco
Inspired by Gogol's O Diário de um Louco, this absurd and surreal tale explores the blurred boundary between madness and reason through two actors.
DANCE
Imóvel & Saltitante #2
Two contrasting characters discover unexpected common ground and learn to overcome their differences. A dance piece exploring movement, stillness, and shared discovery.
CIRCUS
Pequena CircOOnferência
Performance for young audiences at Museu de Lisboa - Teatro Romano. A historian aspiring to be a circus artist floats between historical rigour and dreamlike wonder.
THEATRE
Departure
Documentary theatre at São Luiz Teatro Municipal examines human interference in nature through the Fužir family's loss of home in natural disasters in Prevalje.
CIRCUS
Dark Circus
Anthology creation by Stereoptik at São Luiz Teatro Municipal. The company captivated audiences at FIMFA Lx25 with Antichambre, which premiered at Avignon Festival.
COMEDY
The Calm Down tour
Laura Ramoso é uma humorista conhecida pelos seus espetáculos de sketch ao vivo e pelas suas imitações virais nas redes sociais. Ela acumulou mais de 3,5 milhões de seguidores com personagens de...
COMEDY
Éclipse
Um circo de objetos singular, com humor e um toque de magia, pontuado pela luz e escuridão. Uma lâmpada suspensa, o fio de um interruptor, um copo de água, uma bola branca, uma vela e fósforos. Es...
THEATRE
TOSHiiB4
A work blending non-fiction and fantasy that revises sexuality in the digital age. Takes place in an oversized bedroom, drawing the audience into a pyjama party.
MUSICAL
No One Dies Singing
Theatre often finds opera implausible when characters continue singing at the moment of death. This work challenges that operatic convention.
THEATRE
Julius Caesar assassinated
A group of journalists attempts to uncover the truth about the conspiracy to kill Julius Caesar. What role should a journalist play in their country's political context?
THEATRE
Crime and Punishment
Belgian company Karyatides brings Dostoevsky's classic to Teatro do Bairro. Following earlier FIMFA Lx productions of Frankenstein and Les Misérables, this adaptation explores guilt, redemption and moral struggle.
THEATRE
Handle with Care
Ontroerend Goed gives audiences control at Teatro do Bairro Alto. Choose your role - lead or observe - and shape the experience collaboratively within a provided structure.
THEATRE
Tempo
Can time be halted or manipulated? This work explores perception, acceleration, deceleration, and those moments when time seems suspended. A meditation on temporal experience.
THEATRE
Hipólito
São Luiz Teatro Municipal stages a work on family brutality through the Phaedra myth, reframing Hippolytus' victimization beyond phallocentric logic to examine contemporary power dynamics.
THEATRE
El minigolf
At Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta, each participant receives a ball and enters a narrative where ten interconnected games form a continuous circuit, each challenge leading to the next.
COMEDY
O Orguishibai
A unique barrel organ at Museu de Lisboa - Palácio Pimenta plays music and tells visual stories with peculiar, absurd humour. One-of-a-kind in the world.
COMEDY
Amigável
Guilherme Fonseca at Teatro Tivoli BBVA. Terms like friendly, affable and playful describe both his stage presence and any labrador awaiting adoption from a shelter.
COMEDY
Verificando se você é humano
Ricardo Araújo Pereira's first solo stand-up comedy show. A sharp examination of human nature and contemporary absurdity from a acclaimed Portuguese comedian.
THEATRE
A Bronx Tale: One Man Show
Chazz Palminteri performs his 1988 autobiographical one-man play, a powerful account of a difficult Bronx childhood marked by intense episodes and formative encounters.
COMEDY
Travesty
Part artistic performance, part historical narrative, part manifesto at Teatro Tivoli BBVA. Travesty traces the secret queer history of a single location across time, beginning with a witch's burning.
THEATRE
And Who Are You?
In a world dominated by technology, a group is admitted to a detoxification clinic specializing in technology addiction. Explores identity and human connection amid digital dependence.