Our city breathes theater, and the off scene is growing more and more with new venues, emerging talents, innovative proposals, and plays that invite us to reflect, feel deeply, and have fun.
Here are ten new productions so you can stay up to date with what's on stage and plan your alternative theater tour. Raise the curtain!
With: Delfina Colombo. Directed by: Iván Moschner.
A play that recovers a real event to give way to fiction: Javi trains to cross the Bermejo River that separates Chaco from Formosa. The pandemic leaves him on one side and his wife and little daughter on the other. Now that the moon shines and Yani and Lupe sleep on the opposite shore, swimming is the only way to get back to them — so Javi jumps in.
Where: Teatro El Grito, Costa Rica 5459. Tickets, here.
With: Natalia Pascale, Fito Perez, Darío Serantes. Directed by: Malena Miramontes Boim.
La Maddonita returned to the stage after 3 years of uninterrupted performances with over 100 shows. Written by Mauricio Kartun, the play takes place in the early 20th century in a hot attic in Parque Lezama where a man takes photos of his wife and then sells them among the immigrant working class, highlighting the friction between desire, sex, and poetry.
Where: Itaca Complejo Teatral, Humahuaca 4027. Tickets, here.
With: Julia Funari, Lucía Palacios, Camilo Parodi, Natalia Rey, Marcelo Rodríguez, Lucas Soriano, Lorena Szekely. Directed by: Guillermo Parodi.
Awarded at the ACE and Luisa Vehil awards, this play reflects on deception, betrayal, and fear based on a true story. In the middle of an orange plantation, a black dome rises in the fields of Corrientes province: The Devil’s Chapel. A pact and timelessness open its doors and unleash hell on earth.
With: Daniel Paccosi and Sol Berzgal. Directed by: Ana Forlouis.
Taxi driver Franco arrives at a local club bar to perform a monologue. Unexpectedly, a strange visitor appears: Oedipus, about to reincarnate in Buenos Aires with the purpose of purging his sins — incest and parricide.
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The taxi driver plays along, improvising a TV interview in a passionate debate about sexuality, desire, death, ambition for power, and betrayal.
Where: Teatro Tadrón, Niceto Vega 4802. Tickets, here.
With: Miriam Odorico. Directed by: Giampaolo Sama.
A multi-award-winning play featured at major festivals. A free adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s novel "One, No One and One Hundred Thousand," where the discovery of a seemingly insignificant physical detail becomes a unique and disturbing event to analyze doubts about existence, our beliefs, the roles we choose or those imposed on us. The challenge is to abandon the hundred thousand masks to wear just one.
Where: Timbre 4, México 3554. Tickets, here.
With: Stella Brandolin, Erica Spósito, Rolo Sosiuk, Paula Berré, Gabo Yamil. Directed by: Carolina Solari.
After her divorce, a famous actress decides to return to her childhood home in the Temperley neighborhood, but her gambling addiction takes her life in an unexpected direction. The play sensitively addresses the impact of gambling addiction, a dependency that affects relationships and decisions. Between memories and bets, Destino Temperley invites reflection on the limits between chance and destiny.
Where: Teatro Border, Godoy Cruz 1838. Tickets, here.
With: Priscilla Barreda Oro, Romina Campagnolo, Juan Sebastián Cruz, Carlos Demarco, Cristian Mendez, Florencia Moreno. Directed by: Emilio Urdapilleta.
Chiqui is a young boxer fighting both in the ring and within his family environment against a fate marked by his father and coach’s expectations and obsession, who sees in him the chance to fulfill his own frustrated vocation. A raw and moving portrait of the inheritance of unfulfilled dreams, sacrifice, and the toughest fight of all: being yourself.
Where: Teatro Fandango, Luis Viale 108. Tickets, here.
With: Camila Conte Roberts, Alejandro Casagrande, Federico Julián Martinez. Directed by: Juan Tupac Soler.
Eloísa is alone at home. Rodolfo, her neighbor, is alone at home. Enrico accidentally arrives at his uncle Rodolfo’s house; he seems to feel alone too. Eloísa has been undergoing therapy for a while, Rodolfo wants to shoot his first movie before he dies, and Enrico doesn’t know what he wants from life.
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Though none planned it, Eloísa, Rodolfo, and Enrico end up with a shared project and stop being alone in this world — at least for a while.
With: Graciela Edul, Flor Gallo Pecca, Darshan Gonzalez, Rocío Lopez Acuña and cast. Directed by: Silvana Amaro.
In its fourth season, this play follows a group of high school seniors on a study trip to Puerto Madryn with two young coordinators. Together, they navigate the warmth of adolescence and the cold of the south, dealing with hidden desires, visions, confusions, and memories.
Where: Teatro Azul, Corrientes 5965. Tickets, here.
With: Luz Palazón. Directed by: Augusto Perez. Written by: Inés Garland.
A woman recalls the moment that condemns her. In a fragmented, indefinite space and time, she arranges her memories to tell what she has kept silent for too long. She is the consequence of slow and meticulous damage, but she is not fully aware of it. Her liberation, perhaps impossible, is tied to the tear.
Where: Camarín de las Musas, Mario Bravo 960. Tickets, here.
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