Living in a big city, and specifically in Barcelona, has many advantages that we sometimes take for granted. One of them is its cultural offer. This city never rests, there are always plans coming and going and there are always new entertainments.
Among all of them, today we bring you the billboard with the best plays you can see today in Barcelona, at least according to our criteria. Are you ready?
Here is a selection of some of the most relevant plays that are currently playing in the most important theaters in Barcelona:
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Hamlet (Albert Pla i Peyu).
What happens when you put together the unclassifiable mind of Albert Pla with the rural and acid humor of Peyu? Well, Shakespeare becomes something totally different. This version of Hamlet is one of the most risky and commented proposals of 2026. Do not expect a solemn drama; it is a deconstruction of the classic that mixes music, existential reflections of bar and a staging that breaks all the schemes.
The chemistry between the two is the driving force of the play. Pla brings his usual dreamlike and provocative tone, while Peyu lands the tragedy with a very down to earth sense of humor. It’s a divisive theatrical experience, but one that leaves no one indifferent. If you want to see something that is totally out of the norm, this is your place.
📍 Location: Teatre Coliseum (Gran Via, 595)
🗓️ Dates: Check for January sessions
💸 Tickets: From €24
Tootsie, the musical sitcom
The Broadway phenomenon has finally landed at the Paral-lel and the wait has been worth it. This musical adaptation of the legendary 80’s movie is not only a comedy of entanglements; it is a razor-sharp satire on the ego in show business. The protagonist, a talented actor who is impossible to hire because of his bad character, decides to impersonate a woman to get a role in a series… and the rest is history (and a lot of laughs).
The staging at the Apollo is ambitious, with musical numbers that keep the pace of an authentic TV sitcom. The performances are vibrant, with the cast’s ability to alternate between physical humor and social criticism without losing an ounce of charisma being especially noteworthy. It is the perfect plan if you are looking to leave the theater with a smile from ear to ear.
📍 Location: Teatre Apolo (Av. del Paral-lel, 59)
🗓️ Dates: Until January 18, 2026
💸 Tickets: From 25€.
Göteborg
At a certain age, who hasn’t wondered what would have happened if they hadn’t taken that step, if they hadn’t backed out. In relationships as in many other things, would our life have been better? This is what Paula (Maria Molins), now mature, asks herself when she is about to face a major challenge. She does not know what happened the last night of the end-of-year trip in Göteborg, in the last year of high school, when she went alone to a Depeche Mode concert and left Sergi (Roger Coma). After three days of rapprochement, they argued and never saw each other again.
Göteborg begins with Paula bursting into Sergi’s apartment, almost 33 years after that night she doesn’t remember. He is alone, reading and in his pajamas. She carries a bag with her teenage diary and a bottle of schnapps. She wants to remember that trip, but Sergi hesitates. He does not see it clearly, but he will give in. And they will reconstruct it with the appearance of both of them when they were young, played by a solvent Berta Rabascall and Jan Mediavilla, who will reproduce before our eyes those Swedish days.
📍 Location: La Villarroel (C/ de Villarroel, 87).
🗓️ Dates: Until February 1, 2026
💸 Tickets: From 24€.
Extinction Rave
Is it a party or is it a farewell ritual? Extinction Rave is the proposal of the Mis Bragas Foundation that is shaking the Àtic 22 of the Tantarantana this January. After winning the Adrià Gual Award, this “hybrid scene” piece uses the aesthetics of a rave to throw us an uncomfortable question: how do we manage apathy in the face of environmental collapse?
On stage, don’t expect a classical narrative. The play, written and directed by Gaia Bautista, moves between techno, smoke and sensory stimuli to question the modern fantasy that humans are something separate from nature. As its creators say, it is like watching the musicians of the Titanic playing electronic music while the ship sinks. It is intense, it is physical and, above all, it is an invitation to recover the body collectively before it is too late.
📍 Location: Teatre Tantarantana – Sala Àtic 22 (C/ de les Flors, 22)
🗓️ Dates: From January 9 to 25, 2026
💸 Tickets: From 16€ (discounts available for groups)
The Jury Experience
In The Jury Experience, the show starts as a trial: a defendant, lawyers, testimonies and a case presented to the audience. From there, attention is key, because what is said and what is proven matters. Each performance poses a different conflict – from robberies to crimes – and the final verdict depends on the spectators themselves, who are part of the jury and actively participate in the decision.
📍 Location: Auditori l’Illa (Av. Diagonal, 547)
🗓️ Dates: Saturdays and selected Sundays in January, February, March, April and May.
💸 Tickets: From 25€.
Germans de sang7
2025 has been, without a doubt, the year of Roc Bernadí and Albert Salazar. A few months ago, one triumphed with El día de la marmota and the other with L’herència. This season they have shared the stage and are, respectively, Eddie and Mickey , the blood brothers created by Willy Russell; a Greek tragedy passed through the contemporary sieve of class difference, very British and very Thatcher-era.
The staging at the Condal is an emotional explosion. The show begins with the siblings lying on the floor and their mother(Lucía Guzmán) singing the hit of the musical, No pot ser veritat. It is a story of destiny and fatality where the chemistry between Bernadí and Salazar elevates the text to a level of intensity that justifies why this classic continues to fill theaters decades after its original premiere.
📍 Location: Teatre Condal (Av. del Paral-lel, 91)
🗓️ Dates: Until February 8, 2026
💸 Tickets: From 28€.
Dirty Crusty
When Jeanine (Sandra Pujol) leaves the stage, her body is still there. We do not see her, but between Victor (Pau Escobar) and Sinda (Patrícia Bargalló) there is a shocking presence that fills the whole space. Both meet thanks to her, a messy and magnetic woman of whom we know little, but whose shadow is decisive.
The play explores urban loneliness and the desire for connection in a block of apartments. It all begins with a chance collision on a street corner: Victor and Jeanine, old acquaintances, discover they are neighbors. Their rapprochement is quick, physical and raw, but she needs more than sex and seeks an escape through dance with Sinda, an older neighbor who teaches ballet. It is a brave piece about bodies that seek each other and souls that never quite find each other.
📍 Location: Sala Beckett (C/ de Pere IV, 228)
🗓️ Dates: Until January 11, 2026
💸 Tickets: 20€.
Natale in casa Cupiello
Pep Cruz and Marissa Josa prove once again why they are institutions of our scene. They put themselves again in the shoes of Luca and Concetta in this jewel of Eduardo de Filippo. It’s a Christmas astracanada, a comedy bordering on tragedy that plunges us into the chaos of a Neapolitan family where the men live in their own world and the women support the structure with abnegation.
Under the direction of Oriol Broggi, the stage becomes an Italian party where the fourth wall is broken, the audience is invited to coffee and dance between screams. However, behind the laughter, the shipwreck of the Cupiello family emerges: a lazy son and a daughter trapped in an unhappy marriage. It is popular theater at its best, vibrant and deeply human.
📍 Location: Teatre Romea (C/ de l’Hospital, 51)
🗓️ Dates: Until January 18, 2026
💸 Tickets: From €22
Ai! La misèria ens farà feliços
In the theater imagined by Joan Carreras, Laura Conejero and Pere Arquillué, humans are already dispensable. They play three former actors relegated to being operators who turn on robots in charge of acting without mistakes. Uruguayan author Gabriel Calderón presents us with an infectious dressing room where these three giants of the Catalan stage resist, clinging to their memories of Spanish classics.
The play is a play of mirrors with Life is a Dream. While the protagonists feel themselves the spoils of an industry that no longer wants them, Daniela (Brown) appears, an enthusiastic spectator who slips into their world with the desire to belong to the company. It is an acid and brilliant reflection on art, obsolescence and the passion that survives even when the lights go out.
📍 Location: Teatre Lliure Gràcia (C/ de Montseny, 47)
🗓️ Dates: Until January 18, 2026
💸 Tickets: 25€.
L’amor venia amb cab
When this musical lowers the curtain after two and a half hours, a spark of sadness invades you for having to leave their characters. It is a rounded show, musically delicious and with interpretations that take the hiccups away. The story takes us to the parish of Nuestra Señora de la Luz, where a group of neighbors rehearses a play that will change their lives.
It is one of those productions where the spectator would like to be part of the company, to ask them what they will rehearse next year or if the stagehand will finally have his leading role. A critical and public success that confirms that the musical genre in Catalan is in an enviable moment of form.
📍 Location: Teatre Romea (C/ de l’Hospital, 51)
🗓️ Dates: Until February 15, 2026
💸 Tickets: From €20
Glorious!
Is it possible to be successful while singing terribly bad? The story of Florence Foster Jenkins proves it is. In this comedy directed by Paco Mir, Marta Ribera shines precisely because of her ability not to hit a single note, a very complicated technical task for an actress of her stature. Alongside her, the pianist Ramon Gener and her husband Santi Millán complete a cast that seeks constant complicity with the audience.
Although Gener and Millán’s tone leans towards a more televised and exaggerated register, the play works as a perfect white comedy to pass the time. It is the portrait of a woman who, against all logic, got to sing at Carnegie Hall thanks to her unshakable faith in herself.
📍 Location: Teatre Poliorama (La Rambla, 115)
🗓️ Dates: Until February 1, 2026
💸 Tickets: From 22€.
The Phantom of the Opera
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s classic continues to mesmerize in his stay at the Tivoli. This production stands out for a very high vocal level, with Daniel Diges embodying an imposing Phantom and Ana San Martín as a Christine Daaé who thrills in every aria. Under the baton of Miquel Tejada, the orchestra sounds with an almost operatic power that envelops the theater.
The story of the disfigured genius who dwells in the catacombs of the Paris Opera is already a modern myth. In this version, it departs a little from sugar to show the rawest and most obsessive side of the relationship between the master and his muse. A first-rate scenic display that justifies its worldwide success.
📍 Location: Teatre Tívoli (C/ de Casp, 8)
🗓️ Dates: Until February 11, 2026
💸 Tickets: From €35
Ragazzo
Taking over an iconic role is not easy, especially when it comes to the Carlo Giuliani that Oriol Pla made his own for years. But Pau Bondiez rises to the challenge with a different energy: less melancholic and more physical, more raw. The story of the young activist killed in Genoa during the 2001 G8 remains a direct punch to the stomach.
Lali Alvarez directs this text that reconstructs the last three days of “Ragazzo’s” life. Bondiez looks us in the eyes, drags us into his daily life and makes us participants in his fatal destiny. It is an exercise in historical and theatrical memory that, ten years after its original premiere, has lost none of its political urgency.
📍 Location: Sala Flyhard (C/ de l’Alumne, 4)
🗓️ Dates: Consult sessions until the end of January.
💸 Tickets: 18€.