ON STAGE

Quadruple Opening | Athens | June 7
WHAT'S ON

The Athens-Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr) is inaugurating its program at the cool Pireos 260 venue with a feast of shows for the week starting on June 7.


Rohtko | Athens | May 25-28
WHAT'S ON

Up-and-coming Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski is making his Greek debut at Athens’ Onassis Cultural Center with a theater-video art-film spectacle inspired by the notorious case of a fake Mark Rothko painting.

Matchbox | Athens | To January 22
WHAT'S ON

The Onassis Cultural Center is extending the run of the musical stage adaptation of Yiannis Economides’ “Matchbox,” to January 22.


The Other One | Athens | From December 21
WHAT'S ON

Starting on December 21 and on a number of dates through January, the Greek National Theater is presenting the premier of Greek playwright Penny Fylaktaki’s “The Other One” with English surtitles.

Comedy Club | Athens | December 18
WHAT'S ON

Experienced and new comedians will be trying out their best new jokes at the Athens English Comedy Club – the first, and only one of its kind in Greece – at the Eliart Theater on December 18.

Obscene | Athens | December 16-18
WHAT'S ON

The Onassis Cultural Center presents Alexandra Bachzetsis’ thought-provoking “Obscene,” a performance exploring perceptions of eroticism and how the body is portrayed and exposed.


Matchbox | Athens | To December 30
WHAT'S ON

The Onassis Cultural Center is hosting the musical stage adaptation of Yiannis Economides’ critically acclaimed “Matchbox,” a 2002 drama that blows open the Pandora’s box of the classic Greek family.

The Broken Jug | Athens | December
WHAT'S ON

The Greek National Theater will be staging Heinrich von Kleist’s “The Broken Jug” – a folk comedy poking fun at social conventions – and will also be including English surtitles.



Stand-Up Comedy | Athens | October 16
WHAT'S ON

The Athens English Comedy Club turns 3 with a special show at the Eliart Theater featuring a lineup of nine comedians who helped nurture the initiative into toddlerhood


English Comedy Club | Athens
WHAT'S ON

Stand-up fans should save the date, as The Cube, an innovative co-working space, is hosting an evening of comedy in English on Sunday.

Antigone
WHAT'S ON

Alexander Raptotasios brings Sophocles’ “Antigone” into the present, reimagining it as a comment on how media shape public opinion.