BRAZIL THEATER REVIEWS

Once tells the story of a musician in Dublin who plays his own compositions to earn a few bucks. Spending a day by chance, a Czech immigrant is enchanted by the melodies and accidentally enters his life. When they least realize it, the two are composing sentimental songs together, but find it diffic...

JUDY – O ARCO-IRIS E AQUI is a non-linearly play intertwines Judy Garland's biography with Luciana Braga's personal story, in a metalanguage that navigates between past and present, fiction and reality, shedding light on the internal and external struggles that the artist still faces....

The most famous criminal love story of all time, arrives on Brazilian stages for the first time with production of musical Bonnie & Clyde. Starring Eline Porto, Beto Sargentelli, Adriana Del Claro, Claudio Lins and a great cast, the production opens together with the successful West End staging, has...

The Bodyguard is a musical based on the popular 1992 movie, with the score featuring songs recorded by Whitney Houston including 'I Will Always Love You'. The show tells the story of rock superstar Rachel Marron who hires the titular bodyguard, Frank Farmer, to protect her from a stalker. As Frank w...

Based on Book IV of the Aeneid, the opera was composed in 1688 and is considered one of the great works of English Baroque. Unprecedented montage has scenic direction by William Pereira and musical direction by Luis Otavio Santos, who commands the Orchestra do Theatro Sao Pedro. The performances tak...

Deeply moving and wickedly hilarious depicting gay life in the 21st century, The Inheritance, brilliantly re-envisioning E.M. Forster’s 1910 masterpiece Howards End, opens with a 5-hour two-part play. A great success on Broadway awarded with 4 Tony Awards, including Best Play, the production will ...

The monologue opens at Teatro Paiol in the “1st Festival of Monologues”. The play narrates a cut in Carmen Miranda’s life, when, already consecrated as one of the main Brazilian personalities in the United States, she returned for a show in Brazil, booed for supposedly having “sold herself t...

The show, with music by Tom Kitt and Lin-Manuel Miranda, lyrics by Amanda Green and Miranda, loosely based on the 2000 film of the same name, focuses on the competitive world of cheerleading and over-the-top team rivalries....

Lyrical season will have 11 titles, including the premiere of O Machete, by Mehmari. Throughout 2023, will be presented of Il Seraglio, by Mozart, Cinderella, by Viardot, The Cunning Little Vixen, by Janácek, Dido and Eneas, by Purcell, among others. The program also includes ballet shows, symphoni...

Alem do Ar is a musical freely inspired by the life of Santos-Dumont, not only the daring and determined inventor, but also the man who had doubts about his inventions. The show is produced by the Lia Maria Aguiar Foundation, starring the talents of Cassio Scapin, Mateus Ribeiro, Felipe Prestes, Hen...

A dip in the history of Brazil takes us to the Bahian popular uprising known as Conjuracao Baiana, Revolta dos Alfaiates or Revolta dos Buzios. The movement is the inspiration for the show Uma Leitura dos Buzios (A Reading of Buzios). The premiere took place in November 2022 at Teatro Antunes Filho ...

The award, which brings together representatives of the digital press and celebrates musical theater in Sao Paulo City, held its 5th edition, the first being presential. The Brazilian musicals Brenda Lee and the Palace of the Princesses and Nautopia - The Musical were the most awarded of the night....

CLUBE DA ESQUINA – OS SONHOS Não AVELHECEM (Corner Club – Dreams Don't Grow Old) was presented to the world in 1972, being the first double long play in the country and considered the best Brazilian album of all time. Now completing 50, it gets theatrical version, under the direction of Dennis ...

The musical tells certain passages in Dominguinhos' life and work, mixing reality and fiction, as the artist recalls his trajectory through facts, music and professional and affective partnerships, while talking to his greatest and faithful companion, the Accordion....

After the success of Rio de Janeriro’s season, the play Ponto a Ponto (Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles), directed by Gustavo Barchilon, opens in Sao Paulo on July 15, at Teatro B32. The show features Luiz Fernando Guimaraes giving life to a 90-year-old lady, Bruno Gissoni as her grandson and Renata Ricc...

Uma Noite na Broadway is a very funny musical comedy, directed by Fernanda Chamma, and starring Fabi Bang and Thiago Machado, that brings together hits from some of the great Broadway musicals successfully produced in Brazil. The play tells the story of two Brazilian artists at different times in t...

Cia. da Revista celebrates its 25th anniversary with the premiere of the musical Tatuagem, directed by Kleber Montanheiro, The show premieres on April 14 at Espaco Cia da Revista, where it runs from Thursday to Saturday at 9 pm and on Sundays at 7 pm. ...

I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera by V. Bellini, will be performed in April at Theatro Sao Pedro. With libretto by Felice Romani, the opera is not based on Shakespeare's famous text. Staged by Antonio Araujo and musical direction by Alessandro Sangiorgi, the cast includes singers Denise de Freitas (Ro...

In April, Sao Paulo’s Theatro Municipal presents two operas by Plinio Marcos: Navalha na Carne and Homens de Papel. Both productions are the first operas specially commissioned by the theater. Presented in a double bill, they bring iconic texts from Brazilian dramaturgy, which focus on existences ...

A new authorial musical opens in Brazil on April 1st: 'Nautopia', by Daniel Salve. The show features Beto Sargentelli, Eline Porto, Jonathas Joba and a great cast, when portraying the eternal back home of the young man who seeks healing through confrontation with its past and its internal and extern...

Following a move from NY City to small-town Indiana, young Evan Goldman grapples with his parents' divorce, prepares for his impending Bar Mitzvah, and navigates the complicated social circles of a new school. With known names in the Brazilian cast, the show is the only Broadway musical ever with ...

Can you imagine Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' told to the sound of pop princess Britney Spears in a musical, contemporary and with a completely new gay reinterpretation? For this is Noites de Verao (Summer Nights)....

The production is conducted by Luis Otavio Santos, who commands the Orquestra do Theatro Sao Pedro, and stage direction by Mauro Wrona. The show will also be streamed free of charge on the internet. ...

Disney In Concert - The Songs From Your Favorite Movies Live comes back to Brazil in march for presentations at Teatro Bradesco, in Sao Paulo. Show features songs from classic and current Disney’s movies performed by an orchestra and with incredible projections on a big screen. The premiere takes...

With 16 shows eligible for consideration, Barnum leads the list with 8 nominations, followed by the musicals The Color Purple and Silvio Santos Vem Ai, with 7 nominations each. After a long hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Digital Press Highlight Award (DID) celebrates the resumption of t...