BRAZIL THEATER REVIEWS

BWW Review:Phantom of the Opera Wins the 7TH BIBI FERREIRA AWARDS...

After a successful season in Rio de Janeiro, Tribute to TINA TURNER - Breaking Rules - A Musical Comedy, premieres in Sao Paulo on September 16....

Directed by Ulysses Cruz, with songs by Luan Santana, musical Isso Que e Amor opens in Sao Paulo on September 13th and tours 6 more capitals. The musical is idealized by producer Gustavo Nunes, Leonardo Bertholini's direction and direction of movement and Guilherme Terra's musical direction, telling...

Audience and critical success in Rio de Janeiro MUSICAL DONA IVONE LARA - UM SORRISO NEGRO now opens in Sao Paulo. The show will take place at Teatro Sergio Cardoso, from August 29. The musical portrays the life and times of Brazilian singer-songwriter Ivone Lara da Costa, better known as Dona Ivon...

The show will pay a beautiful tribute to Roberto Gomez Bolanos and his most famous creation, our dear El Chavo, in a great production in the best Broadway style. The staging promises to surprise fans of the show - and the general public - with original choreography by Gabriel Malo, unpublished libr...

Sao Paulo's artistic scene gets a new stage this week. Unimed Theater comes with the promise of becoming a space of excellence for culture in the city. Located in one of the most central points of Sao Paulo, on the corner of Rua Augusta and Alameda Santos, just one block from Paulista Avenue, the ar...

The show exalts black protagonism in a show that narrates and goes through the successes of Brazilian and international Black Music. On the scene, Ícaro Silva plays the commander Icarus, who pilots a spaceship and lands in various corners of the world at different times. It is a theatrical show-bas...

Cariri City, Ceara, is the starting point of the show O Magico di O, a place without rain and hope, from where a group of northeasterns go to Sao Paulo City in search of a better life. Using a Cordel Literature version of the classic The Wizard of Oz, the musical idealized by Vitor Rocha and Luiza P...

Foram anunciados nesta quinta-feira, 1o de agosto, os indicados para a 7a edicao do Premio Bibi Ferreira. Sao cerca de 30 peças concorrendo em 31 categorias. Liderando as indicacoes estao os musicais As Cangaceiras, Billy Elliot e Sunset Boulevard, concorrendo em 10 categorias cada um. O premio se...

With direction by Ulysses Cruz and starring Marcos Mion, Leticia Spiller, Bruno Fagundes, Nicole Rosemberg, the show tells the origin of the masked hero's story, mixing romance and a lot of humor....

The 2019 lyrical season of Sao Paulo's Theatro Municipal brings one of the most important operas of Italian romanticism, Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi. With scenic direction by Jorge Takla and musical direction by conductor Roberto Minczuk, and sumptuous scenarios by Nicolas Boni, the premiere takes p...

Cazuza - Pro Dia Nascer Feliz, musical that was already seen by 200 thousand spectators returns to Sao Paulo's stages in short season, from July 19 to August 25, from Friday to Sunday, at Teatro Porto Seguro. Libretto by Aloisio de Abreu with direction by Joao Fonseca....

'Macunaima', Mario de Andrade's masterpiece, won a new theatrical production by Barca dos Coracoes Partidos Company. The direction by Bia Lessa proposes a reflection on contemporary life, transforming the text into a musical rhapsody. The show is part of the permanent relevance of the most character...

Putting together poetry and a reflection on the struggle of the ignored by society, the show of Grupo dos Dez, with direction by Joao das Neves (In Memoriam) and Rodrigo Jeronimo, MADAME SATA - UM MUSICAL BRASILEIRO (Madame Satan - A Brazilian Musical), performs season from July 12 to September 8, ...

The musical brings the first direction by Ariane Mnouchkine outside the Theatre du Soleil and it reunites a list of twenty Brazilian actresses that take turns in diverse roles. The short season runs from July 5 to 28 at Teatro Anchieta (Sesc Consolacao)....

Absolute success in its Carioca season, the show Ao som de Raul Seixas 'Merlin e Arthur, Um Sonho de Liberdade' premieres on June 7, in Sao Paulo, and brings a creative artistic innovation: the languages of theater, cinema and design will be used for the first time together in the musical theater....

Brazilian actor who is famed for his role as Simba in the Brazilian and Spanish stage of The Lion King, Tiago Barbosa returns to Brazil with the show ESTRADA (Road). The one-man show brings together on stage the memories and successes of his career as a singer and actor....

Com Todas as Letras, a romantic musical comedy with songs by LGBTQ + Brazilian artists, approaches the LGBTQ + universe in his libretto. Showing the diversity, difficulty and struggle of each one of its characters, the play opens in Sao Paulo, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, at Espaco Cia da Revista....

'Se Essa Lua Fosse Minha' by Elton Towersey and Vitor Rocha, is an unpublished Brazilian musical that opened on May 7 at the Teatro do Nucleo Experimental in Sao Paulo....

Angels in America is a two-part play by American playwright Tony Kushner which he describes as 'A Gay Fantasia on National Themes'. The work won numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Tony Award for Best Play, and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play. The play is a complex...

After three successful seasons in Rio de Janeiro, the musical comes to Sao Paulo in homage to Nelson Goncalves, the King of Radio, who would complete 100 years on June 21. Performed by Guilherme Logullo and Jullie, the play makes an incursion into striking moments of one of the greatest idols of Bra...

Cangaco was the banditism phenomenon of Northeast Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This region of Brazil is known for its aridness and hard way of life, and in a form of 'social banditry' against the government, many men and women decided to become nomadic bandits, roaming the hinte...

Billy Elliot o Musical is a musical based on the 2000 film Billy Elliot. The music is by Elton John, and the book and lyrics are by Lee Hall, who wrote the film's screenplay. The plot revolves around Billy, a motherless British boy who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The story of his personal...

Glamour, power and greed in the musical that made history on Broadway. This is 'Sunset Boulevard', a super production that premiered on March 22 at Teatro Santander, Sao Paulo, and marks the return to the stages of one of the most beloved Brazilian theater duo: Marisa Orth and Daniel Boaventura. The...

An exciting story of faith indicated for people of all religions, APARECIDA, by Walcyr Carrasco, and direction by Fernanda Chamma, will open at Teatro Bradesco on March 22. The show has original music and musical direction by Carlos Bauzys, original lyrics by Ricardo Severo, scenography by Richard L...