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28 March-9 April. Teatro India continues its series of contemporary versions of Shakespeare’s classics with Edward Bond’s reworking of Lear. Described as a reflection on the indissoluble relationship between men and...
15 March. The Gruppo Storico Romano stages an historical reenactment of the dramatic events that occurred in Rome on the Ides of March, culminating in the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. The event is being st...
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17-18 March. The students of Rome's Pontifical Irish College celebrate St Patrick's Day by staging an adaptation of Reginald Rose’s classic courtroom drama Twelve Angry Men on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 March. Directed...
10-11 March. Teatro Palladium-Università Roma Tre stages Due, the Italian version of the award-winning dramatic comedy Two by British playwright Jim Cartwright, adapted by Serena Zampoli. The play is centred around tw...
15 March-9 April. Teatro Sistina stages a theatrical version of Febbre da cavallo, the 1976 movie which starred Gigi Proietti and became a cult of light Italian comedy. Directed by Claudio Insegno, with artistic supe...
20-26 Feb. Teatro India presents La Divina Sarah, a production based on the life of the Belle Epoque French stage and early film actress Sarah Bernhardt who was billed as "the most famous actress the world has ever known...
16-26 Feb. Simone Cristicchi stages his new play inspired by the incredible story of David Lazzaretti, a 19th-century Italian preacher known as the Prophet of Amiata. Directed by Antonio Calenda. In Italian.
8-19 Feb. Teatro Sistina presents a play that contrasts the private and public personas of Princess Diana, one fragile, the other invincible. Written and directed by Vincenzo Incenzo, starring Serena Autieri. In Ital...
31 Jan-5 Feb. The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare, originally published in 1623. Due to its mix of intense psychological drama, comedy and happy ending, the work is c...
20-29 Jan. A play with live music focusing on the lives of two iconic American musicians — father and son Tim and Jeff Buckley — is staged in Rome from 20-29 January. Both musicians left their mark on the music scenes...
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17-22 Jan. Reality and fantasy are intertwined in the best Latin-American tradition in this Italian adaptation of Amuleto, the short novel by Chilean author Roberto Bolaño (1953–2003). The story is centred around poe...
12-29 Jan. Terapia di gruppo, directed by Stefano Messina, is based on the play Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang. A farcical and complex comedy about couple Prudence and Bruce who seek professional help to retrie...
20 Dec-8 Jan. Teatro Vittorio stages a production of Weekend Comedy, written by Chicago-born playwright Sam Bobrick and his former wife Jeanne, translated into Italian by Enrico Luttman. The story revolves around two...
14 Dec-15 Jan. Italian adaptation of the smash-hit musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice, directed by Massimo Romeo Piparo. The story focuses on the life of Argentine political leader Eva Perón, the second wife...
25 Nov-18 Dec. Teatro India presents the hugely successful play telling the story of the Lehman family, from their arrival in New York in the mid 1800s to the crash of Lehman Brothers in 2008. Previously performed at...
17 Nov-4 Dec. Rome's Teatro Furio Camillo hosts the fourth edition of Battiti, an international festival for contemporary circus theatre.  Featuring theatrical companies from Italy and abroad, the programme comprises...
1-6 Nov. The Rome Savoyards and Plays in Rome present an English-language production of She Stoops to Conquer by the Anglo-Irish author Oliver Goldsmith. This classic comedy of deception and seduction was first perfo...
26 Oct-20 Nov. Massimo Popolizio directs a performance of Ragazzi di vita, the controversial 1956 work by Italian author, poet and intellectual Pier Paolo Pasolini for Teatro India. The story follows the escapades of...
20 Oct-18 Dec. The 15th edition of Trend: New frontiers of the British scene takes place at Teatro Belli in Trastevere until 11 December. The drama festival provides a bridge between established and emerging British a...
21-30 Oct. As part of John Cabot University's annual Italy Reads programme, the English Theatre of Rome stages a performance of The Glass Menagerie, directed by Lee Andrew Archer and starring Frank Baj, Tracy Caputo, Mar...
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