The intersection between music, theatre, dance and contemporary creation marks the programming of the Aveirense Theatre by the end of the year, with proposals for different audiences, which address topics such as housing, climate change, cultural identity and tradition.
© Lusa
08/09/2026
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Lusa
Teatro Aveirense
Dand according to information released by the theater located in the city of Aveiro, among the highlights for the last four months of 2026 are the show “All São Palco – Teatro Show Beyond Ecuador”, dedicated to the theatricalities of the Amazon, and a multidisciplinary program around housing, developed from the show “The Problem of Housing”, by Jorge Louraço Figueira.
Even before the Amazonian show, the Aveirense Theatre opens on September 11th and 12th, Mickaël de Oliveira’s “Promised Valley Conference Center” on a group of Christian university theaters that prepares to participate in an ecumenical festival in the United States.
The “Todos São Palco”, which runs various theaters of the Portuguese Theaters and Cineteatros Network, is presented at the Aveirense Theatre between September 18 and October 03, with five shows and three workshops, with artists and companies from Manaus, Bogota, São Paulo and Lima.
The program includes “Los Devoró la Selva”, a creation inspired by the novel “A Voragem” (“La Vorágine”, in the original), by Colombian José Eustasio Rivera, which crosses body, territory and memory with a reflection on the fragility of Amazonia and environmental challenges; “Final Point, Followed Point”, performance by indigenous artist Uýra about memory, healing and reunion with the Earth; and “Fertile in arid lands”, a creation of a company of buffoons who resort to satire to address hypocrisy and corruption.
The exhibition concludes with “Des-conocido”, Peruvian piece that addresses mental health, confinement, forgetfulness and exclusion, and “O Avesso da Pele”, adaptation of the homonymous novel of Brazilian writer Jeferson Tenório, which addresses topics such as racism, identity and violence.
The program also includes workshops such as “Future Ecosomatics”, “The Creator Actor” and “The Bone of the Ball: Dance Dramaturgy”.
The issue of housing is another of the axes of programming, with the debut of “The Problem of Housing”, by Jorge Louraço Figueira, to which three conversations are added, a film cycle, the exhibition “Arquitectas da Liberdade”, patent between October 13 and December 15, and the concert “Home”, by Francisco Sasseti, on November 6, “proposing different perspectives on one of the most present issues”.
Still in the theater, the play “Start everything again”, with artistic direction and interpretation by Raquel André and Tonan Quito, in a coproduction of the Aveirense Theatre, goes up to the stage.
The musical program includes the return of Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra Vienna, on 28 September and 1 October, with a program of waltzes, polkas and operettas from the Viennese repertoire, and “Happy Birthday Mr. Mercury”, by the String Quintet and Piano of the Lisbon Symphony Orchestra.
The music programme also includes the presence of Norwegian singer and composer Sondre Lerche returning to Portugal to present "Acrobats", his new studio album.
On November 25, the Ensemble Ephemeral International presents “All Sounds will give to the AU”, within the autumn festival cycle, which ends two days later with “The Sound of Water, Music in Liquid State”, interpreted by the Orchestra of Beiras and the Symphony Orchestra of the Department of Communication and Art of the University of Aveiro.
In the dance, Clara Andermatt presents, on October 16, “From Terreiro to Mundo”, the creation of the Unstable Company, inspired by the Pauliteiros de Miranda, while “Axiom Casino”, by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, arrives in Aveirense on December 3rd and 4th.
On December 11, Dutch choreographer Remy Tilburg presents “Flamingo”, a spectacle about the relationship between the human being and the planet.
The artistic creation linked to Aveiro will also be present in the last quarter, with Susie Filipe presenting, on October 17, her first solo album, “In Real Time”, accompanied by Banda Friendship – Banda Sinfónica de Aveiro.
The collaboration with the Art in Time continues on 24 October, with “A Line of Light in the Water”, played by João Reis and Nuno Aroso, while the Red Cloud Teatro de Marionetas premieres, on 5 and 6 December, “en.tre.nar.ra.ti.vas”, after an artistic residence at the Teatro Aveirense.
The local creation program ends on the 20th, with the musical show directed to the families “The Poetry of Small Things”, of the Art in Time.
With regard to programming for childhood, the organization highlights, on 14 November, the presentation of “Bastien and Bastienne”, by W. A. Mozart, a puppet opera, by the Orchestra of Beiras and Opera Nomad; as well as, on 8 December, “The most beautiful things in the world”, a piece from the text of Valter Hugo Mom, with Joan providence's act.
From October 8th to 10th, Prisma/Art Light Tech returns, a festival that crosses art and technology and will occupy several spaces of the city, with the participation of national and international artists, in a schedule, whose details will be released later.
According to the organizers, the programme of the Aveirense Theatre for the last months of 2026 seeks to strengthen the connection to contemporary creation and to local artists and structures, maintaining a diverse offer of artistic languages and initiatives aimed at different audiences.