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A CORAGEM DA MINHA MÃE Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Month
by BWW News Desk - January 06, 2022
A Coragem Da Minha Mãe by George Tabori comes to Teatro das Figuras on 20 January. The unlikely rescue of Tabori's mother, told by him, upon the deportation of 4000 jews from Budapest to Auschwitz in July 1994.
Ballet Español De Múrcia Presents FLAMENCO PASSION and THE HIDDEN FACE OF THE MEDITERRANEAN
by BWW News Desk - December 27, 2021
A great “flamenco painting” where performances of high level and artistic level, dancing different styles, will end with a flamenco party. The characters come and go showing their feelings to the rhythm of the music, choreographies with lots of movement, color and dynamism. The passion for flamenco from the point of view of performers and spectators who live the Flamenco - Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Diogo Piçarra Comes to Teatro das figuras Next Week
by BWW News Desk - December 17, 2021
Entitled “Vem Cantar Comigo”, this tour marks the first time that Diogo Piçarra will perform completely solo on stage and has the particularity of having a very special guest at each concert in Lisbon and Porto.
COPPELIA Comes to Teatro Das Figuras This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - December 13, 2021
Coppélia tells the story of Swanilda and Franz, a young couple in love who are preparing to get married. In the village where they live there is the strange and mysterious Doctor Coppelius, an inventor who goes mad with the death of his daughter. He ends up building a ballerina doll, which he calls Coppélia, which he puts in the window every day.
PASSAGEM SECRETA is Now Playing at Teatro das figuras
by BWW News Desk - December 06, 2021
In early 2020 Fernando Mota started a new cycle of research with the creation of musical instruments and sound objects using dead trees, stone, water and other natural materials. Since then, he has created the Concert for a Tree, the film 7 Poems for a New World, with director Mário Melo Costa, and the film O Bosque, with Margarida Botelho (ordered by Gulbenkian).
LE VOISIN Will Be Performed at Teatro das Figuras This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - November 26, 2021
Greasy hair, velours trousers and forever bachelor, he makes the girls flee and stir up trouble like no one else! Tonight, he will try to find love in a dancing singles night, to survive into the wild and fierce nature, and to share the genuine magic of Christmas Time. But beware, this clumsy boy searching for true love may have you under his spell!
HISTÓRIAS MAGNETICAS Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Week
by BWW News Desk - November 15, 2021
Magnetic Stories was created by guitarist-composer Sérgio Pelágio, in a project dedicated to creating soundtracks for children's stories. Together with Isabel Gaivão, they perform short stories with original live music, recreating the original texts' atmospheres to build, along with the children in the audience, new meanings for the situations that come up in the narrative. 
SERENA SERENATA Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - November 12, 2021
We started by arranging a nomadic balcony that is now in Sicily, now in Venice, now in Naples. Then there are three twisted necks, because with three necks the twisting allows for much tastier harmonies. And finally ... what is behind the curtain that lights up with the sailors singing? As we well know, we do not always know what we are going to.
FARO-OESTE Comes to Teatro das Figuras Next Month
by BWW News Desk - October 26, 2021
Faro-Oeste comes to Teatro das figuras next month. The exhibit by Paulina Valente Pimentel opens at Museu Municipal de Faro - Antigas Carpintarias at 6:30pm on 4 November.
ROLLOVER BEETHOVEN Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - October 25, 2021
From dance music written by Beethoven at the end of the sec. XVIII, Trupe dos Bichos creates this electronic music show for babies and todlers, up to 3 years old.
TROUBLE Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Weekend
by BWW News Desk - October 13, 2021
The film director Gus Van Sant ventures out in his first stage creation, a musical-theatre show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent to elevate images to icons, while escalating as a persona and as an artist to the status of world celebrity. Gus Van Sant reconstructs Warhol’s past, in the early stages of his career, through a fictional narrative built from real facts and memories, but also from imagination.
AND STILL WE MOVE Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Week
by BWW News Desk - October 05, 2021
And yet we still move. Fragility as a capacity, as a poetic place, is the starting point of a performance that arises from the desire to shift the private to the public sphere. The choreographers and performers Joana Castro and Maurícia | Neves question and reconfigure the relationships between them, using as a base photographs from the personal archive of a romantic relationship that ended.
MOGA Caparica Festival Set To Debut In Portugal Next Month
by BWW News Desk - September 21, 2021
This year it takes place in Costa da Caparica, Portugal rather than the usual location of Essaouira, but still allows all dreamers and dancers to be reunited under another Atlantic skyline with endless wellness and music to make for an immersive experience. 
BRASA Will Be Performed at Teatro das figuras Next Week
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2021
The word Brazil has its origin in the large quantities of brazilwood trees found in regions of the Brazilian coast. “Brasil” derives from “brasa” (“ember”) because this tree has a red-coloured sap, the colour of ember. For years, these trees were extracted and sold to Europe. We can say that it was one of the products that most often crossed the Atlantic.
ROMEU & JULIETA Comes to Teatro das Figuras This Month
by BWW News Desk - September 05, 2021
This new production is born from the desire to continue working the big classics, following the developed work with “Swans’s Lake” and “Spring Rite” of Daniel Cardoso, relating them to today’s life and society.
LIVING IN A BOX Comes to Teatro das Figuras
by BWW News Desk - September 04, 2021
living in a box é uma exposição resultante da residência artística proposta pelo Ciclo Emergente. O tema centra-se na privação do ser Humano em poder socializar e exercer uma atividade que lhe permita subsistir tanto social como economicamente. Com essa mesma privação a proteção individual acentua-se e o significado da palavra homem cai por si só.
FIGURAS À RAMPA is Now Playing at Teatro das Figuras
by BWW News Desk - August 24, 2021
Os 5 concertos únicos que irão juntar artistas nacionais consagrados a locais emergentes, no FIGURAS À RAMPA, estão adiados para a segunda quinzena de agosto, entre os dias 19 e 27, na rampa do Teatro das Figuras, em Faro.
EM ABRIL SAI O BICHO DO COVIL Will Be Performed at Teatro das Figuras
by BWW News Desk - August 15, 2021
Não é a luz do sol que carecemos. Milenarmente a grande estrela iluminou a terra e, afinal, nós pouco aprendemos a ver. O mundo necessita ser visto sob outra luz: a luz do luar, essa claridade que cai com respeito e delicadeza. Só o luar revela o lado feminino dos seres. Só a lua revela intimidade da nossa morada terrestre. Necessitamos não do nascer do Sol. Carecemos do nascer da Terra.”
DIÁLOGOS MUSICAIS Will Be Performed at Teatro das Figuras
by BWW News Desk - August 03, 2021
Maria João Pires plays wonderful interpretations of the notes that have already been written by the great composers and that she transcends in each performance, while Júlio Resende, in order to play and seek to transcend himself, needs that no note is already written, so that there is the freedom to write in the moment, in full flight, to improvise, to take risks, to create something unique that will only be heard this time by the audience present and that will never be repeated.
Alexandra, a Voz do Fado Will Perform at Teatro Das Figuras Next Weekend
by BWW News Desk - July 31, 2021
The brilliant fado singer, who, among many other projects, became known to the general public as the protagonist of the musical 'Amália', is the special guest at this concert. Accompanied by her musicians and the Orquestra Clássica do Sul, Alexandra will dazzle us in this  unique concert, in which Fado and Classical Music go hand in hand in a perfect symbiosis.
Andy Warhol Musical ANDY Comes To Teatro Nacional D. Maria II This Fall
by BWW News Desk - July 22, 2021
Film director Gus Van Sant ventures into his first creation for the stage, a musical theater show inspired by Andy Warhol and his overwhelming talent for elevating images into icons, all while achieving worldwide celebrity status as persona and artist.
Nanook Will Showcase 'Primavera 2' EP at Teatro das Figuras Next Month
by BWW News Desk - July 10, 2021
Nanook presents the EP 'Primavera 20' preceded by an acoustic showcase. Recorded and edited as part of the TMF Ciclo Emergente,  this EP was composed and totally produced in the context of confinement in the author's own place, between May and June 2020.
YES, OPERA! Will Be Performed at Teatro Das Figuras Next Month
by BWW News Desk - June 28, 2021
Masterfully put to music by genius composers such as Rossini, Mozart and Donizetti, these authors knew it well. In the concert of the Orquestra Clássica do Sul, directed by conductor Rui Pinheiro, the voices of the baritone Rui Baeta (known as a judge on the All Together Now program), the soprano Natalyia Stepanska (finalist in the same competition) and the tenor Pedro Rodrigues are going to all. thrill and delight.
A Butoh Workshop Will Take Place at Teatro das Figuras in July
by BWW News Desk - June 27, 2021
The main elements that will be worked on in the workshop are: metamorphosis, presence, readiness, contrast, dance through images and tension between opposites. The objective is to free the body from the set of preconceived and mute gestures and movements it is used to, allowing access to the deep and authentic essence of movement and archetypal expression.
GEOCIDE Will Be Performed at Teatro das Figuras This Week
by BWW News Desk - June 21, 2021
On stage, three beings inhabit a space and the action is not in what they carry, but on the device they step on. Can you imagine a time (“future”?) Where memory it will have been erased in favor of a notion of humanity reduced to (its) eternal contemplation.

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