Snake in the Grass at Teatro S. Genesio
24-29 April. Wonderwall Entertainment presents an English-language production of Snake in the Grass by Alan Ayckbourn. The story revolves around two sisters, Annabel and Miriam, whose up-and-down rela...
Teatro India: Echoes
19-29 April. Teatro India stages an Italian adaptation of Henry Naylor's Echoes: two monologues by two British women who live 175 years apart. One is Victorian colonial pioneer who would build an empi...
English Theatre of Rome: Richard III
5-15 April. The English Theatre of Rome presents an all-female production of Richard III, directed by Douglas Dean, at Teatro Arciliuto from 5-15 April. The infamous Duke of Gloucester plots and schem...
English Theatre of Rome: Life is a Fairy Tale
24-25 March. The English Theatre of Rome presents a dramatic black comedy written by and featuring Glyka Stoiou, and directed by Justyna Choroszczak, at Il Cantiere in Trastevere at 16.00 on 24 and 25...
Giudizio Universale: Michelangelo and the secrets of the Sistine Chapel
Giudizio Universale: Michelangelo and the secrets of the Sistine Chapel comes to Rome on 15 March.Billed as an "extraordinary journey", this cutting-edge production immerses the audience in the world...
Romaeuropa: The Prisoner by Peter Brook
11-20 Oct. Romaeuropa Festival is offering special price tickets for The Prisoner, Peter Brook's latest creation, whose Italian premiere will take place in Rome this October. The special offer of €15...
Rome re-enacts Caesar's assassination
Ides of March marked in Rome with re-enactment of Caesar's murder.15 March. The Gruppo Storico Romano stages an historical re-enactment of the dramatic events that occurred in Rome on the Ides of Marc...
ExtraTeatro: Cyber Kids
21 March. ExtraTeatro, a Rome theatre company that produces shows in English for kids, is staging a musical called Cyber Kids at Teatro Don Bosco on 21 March. The 80-minute production is aimed at seco...
Disgraced at Rome's Teatro India
6-18 March. Jacopo Gassman directs an Italian adaptation of Disgraced, the 2012 award-winning play by novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar.
Described as a "combustible powder keg of identity politic...
Lampedusa at Teatro Eliseo
31 Jan-18 Feb. Teatro Eliseo presents an Italian-language adaptation of Lampedusa by British playwright Anders Lustgarten. The hard-hitting tale focuses on mass migration, contrasting the life of Stef...
Settimo Cielo (Cloud 9) at Rome's Teatro India
14-25 Feb. Giorgina Pi directs Settimo Cielo, an Italian adaptation of Cloud 9 by British playwright Caryl Churchill. The first act is set in British colonial Africa in the Victorian era, the second i...
The Rivals
30 Jan-4 Feb. The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Rivals, a comedy of manners, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
First performed at Covent Garden in 1775, the play concerns the romantic diff...
Mozart: Il sogno di un clown at Teatro India
10-21 Jan. Teatro India hosts Mozart: Il sogno di un clown. The success, humiliation, pain and love behind the story of Mozart, whose music is played live to accompany Giuseppe Cederna in his monologu...
Mamma Mia! at Rome's Teatro Sistina
6 Dec-7 Jan. Teatro Sistina hosts an Italian-language version of the smash-hit musical Mammia Mia!, running until 7 January.
Written by British playwright Catherine Johnson, based on the songs of 1...
Pasolini's Ragazzi di vita at Teatro Argentina
21 Dec-7 Jan. Massimo Popolizio directs a performance of Ragazzi di vita, the controversial 1956 work by Italian author, poet and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini at Teatro Argentina.
The story follo...
Italian and American Playwrights Project in Rome
14 Dec. The American University of Rome brings the Italian and American Playwrights Project (IAPP) to Rome thanks to a partnership with Umanism and 369 Gradi.
The project fosters an exchange between...
If Lear Had a Lawyer
30 Nov-10 Dec. Fool versus the King. It takes a courageous heart. By Don Carroll for the English Theatre of Rome. Based on Shakespeare's King Lear from a lawyer's perspective, this is the first play b...
Pygmalion
8-10 Dec. This musical adaptation of My Fair Lady by Arts in English promises to be fun for all the family.
Arts in English is a non-profit making cultural association which stages musical theatre...
Saved at Teatro Vascello
29 Nov-10 Dec. Teatro Vascello presents an Italian adaptation by Tommaso Spinelli of Saved, the second and best known play by celebrated English playwright Edward Bond.
Set in London in the 1960s,...
Trend: Festival of British Theatre in Rome
10 Oct-18 Dec. The 16th edition of Trend: New frontiers of the British scene takes place at Teatro Belli in Trastevere until 18 December, with the support of the capital and the British Council.The dr...
