Off-the-beaten-path theater in Buenos Aires: 12 plays to see this fall

A heartfelt comedy about the passage of time

With: Leonor Manso, Eugenia Guerty, and Carolina Tejeda. Directed by: Santiago Loza and Pablo Messiez.

Sisters Nidia and Luci spend their days chatting about the romantic affairs of their neighbor Silvia. These bits of gossip turn into small fictions that expand their world and allow them to reflect on love, desire, and the passing of time. With delicate humor and deep humanity, the play shows that it’s never too late to keep searching for what you want.

Where: Hasta Trilce. Tickets, here.

Desire and poetry in Kartun’s universe

With: Natalia Pascale, Fito Perez, and Darío Serantes. Directed by: Malena Miramontes Boim.

Set in the early 20th century in a sweltering attic in Parque Lezama, the play tells the story of a man who photographs his wife to sell those images among the neighborhood’s immigrant workers. In this tension-filled space, a universe unfolds where desire, eroticism, and poetry intertwine with Mauricio Kartun’s unmistakable style.

Where: Ítaca, Complejo Teatral. Tickets, here.

An actress confronting her own identity

With: Camila Mansilla, Elena Petraglia, and Luis Canduci. Directed by: Julio Chávez.

In this play by Julio Chávez and Camila Mansilla, an actress is in the middle of performing The Human Voice by Jean Cocteau when an unexpected phone call breaks the fiction: on the other end, someone asks, “Who are you?” That moment becomes the starting point for a new autobiographical piece in which the performer chooses to explore and reconstruct herself in front of the audience.

Where: El Tinglado. Tickets, here.

A dinner that reveals what no one says

With: Sol Kohanoff, Emiliano Pandelo, Maximiliano Prioriello, and María Zubiri. Directed by: Mauro Anton.

Two couples meet for dinner, but what begins as an everyday gathering soon becomes a brutal X-ray of their lives. As the conversation unfolds, each person begins to mirror the others’ contradictions, frustrations, and desires. Between uncomfortable confessions and unexpected truths, the evening escalates into an increasingly intense atmosphere where what once seemed stable starts to unravel.

Where: El Camarín de las Musas. Tickets, here.

A musical journey between humor, poetry, and the afterlife

With: Mercedes Torre. Directed by: Juan Andrés Romanazzi.

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A musical epic that follows Rosita, a woman who decides to go look for her mother after she dies. A fantastical journey where live music, humor, and verse accompany a story as absurd as it is moving. What if death had an address you could go to and demand answers? With tenderness and poetry, the play imagines one.

Where: Nün Teatro Bar. Tickets, here.

A dance between nostalgia and memory

With: Juana Banchoff Tzancoff, Abril Collet, Sofía Diambra, Eugenia Florit, Sebastián Gui, and cast. Directed by: César Brie.

Between dance floor lights and echoes of a courtyard that could belong to any home, this play invites us to ask what remains of what was once happiness. Through a succession of fragments—families, loves, friendships—it presents memories in motion and pieces of lives intersecting in a shared space. What begins as a dance becomes a sensitive experience where the past resurfaces and is re-signified.

Where: Dumont4040. Tickets, here.

The kitchen as refuge and battlefield

With: Manuela Amosa, Matías Corradino, José Escoba, and Romeo Prioriello. Directed by: Verónica Mc Loughlin.

In a restaurant storage room, away from the bosses’ eyes, four employees take a breather in the middle of service. As they prepare to present a new menu, they discover that one of their coworkers needs help. Between exhaustion, jokes, and complicity, the play portrays the food industry as a space of collective resistance.

Where: Espacio Moscú. Tickets, here.

A dream that won’t be compromised

With: Julio Viera. Directed by: José María Barros Hermosa.

With only a microphone as his ally, a man revisits a life shaped by a dream: to sing like Frank Sinatra. Between childhood memories, romances, nights in traditional eateries, and inevitable failures, the story becomes a journey blending comedy, nostalgia, and the stubborn desire to keep singing.

Where: Teatro Tadrón. Tickets, here.

A family trapped in a frozen world

With: Javier Ahumada, Darío Cassini, Martín Echauri, Fernando César Martínez, Pablo Turchi, and Javier Tursky. Directed by: Cecilia Propato.

In a white, frozen post-dystopian future, a father, his three children, and an uncle await the return of Ingria, a central figure connecting their stories. In this suspended atmosphere, the play explores family tensions and the possibility of rebuilding bonds amid uncertainty.

Where: Ítaca, Complejo Teatral. Tickets, here.

A domestic argument that cracks open love

With: Paula Staffolani and Nacho Ciatti. Directed by: Cecilia Meijide.

It all begins with something minor: a domestic argument over a fan on a sweltering night. But what seems like a trivial disagreement turns into a long nighttime conversation in which a couple begins to revisit their history. Between reproaches, silences, and confessions, fears, desires, and accumulated tensions emerge, revealing the fragility of their bond.

Where: Nün Teatro Bar. Tickets, here.

A family comedy as chaotic as it is endearing

With: Iván Altshuler, Marcelo Saltal, Verónica Kamlacz, Pablo Olarticochea, and Gisela Fiordelmondo. Directed by: Gustavo Moscona.

After a political shift shakes the country, Mario and Lucía decide to rethink their lives and fulfill one last wish before it’s too late. He fantasizes about robbing a bank, while she wants to adopt. After navigating endless procedures and absurd bureaucracy, the Cabrera siblings—Prince, La Turca, and Cerebrito—arrive at their home, and a coexistence begins that is as chaotic as it is heartwarming.

Where: Teatro Polonia. Tickets, here.

A rural tragedy from the early 19th century

With: Julieta de Moura, Mauricio Méndez, Pablo Paillaman Pieretti, Edgardo Rosini, and Mariel Rueda. Directed by: Merceditas Elordi.

Set in early 19th-century Buenos Aires Province, before the rise of Juan Manuel de Rosas, the play follows a ranch worker, her two teenage children, a landowner, and a young farmhand in a story shaped by survival, power, and marginalization. With a focus on family ties and love, the production offers a reflection on the patriarchy of the time from a female perspective.

Where: Teatro Tadrón. Tickets, here.