More worth your time at the same venue, plus a few nearby picks.
THEATRE
The Antipodes
A new team with proven talent faces uncertainty. They were well paid to invent something, but hesitation sets in. What will they create under pressure?
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.
MUSIC
Lula Pena
Lula Pena performs at Teatro do Bairro Alto, returning to the intimate voice and guitar style that defines his discography: Phados (1998), Troubadour (2010), and Archivo Pittoresco.
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
Burn Burn Burn
Inspired by Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, Catarina Rôlo Salgueiro and Isabel Costa create a theatrical examination of contemporary society and its relationship with knowledge and freedom.
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.
MUSICAL
In the Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda's celebrated musical about Washington Heights, the phenomenon that preceded Hamilton, at Teatro Variedades.
THEATRE
Rei Lear
Political prisoner Álvaro Cunhal translated Shakespeare's King Lear in Lisbon's penitentiary between 1953 and 1955, aided by his sister. Teatro do Bairro stages this translation, a clandestine act of resistance and artistic defiance.