The year opens on stage in the Creative District

Once again, the theatres of the Districte Creatiu raise the curtain with a programme full of high-quality productions. From timeless classics to modern and experimental works. Here are the January premieres.

Teatre Nacional de Catalunya

Una brillant imperfecció (o mort d’un pianista)
Concept and direction: Vero Cendoya
Sala Tallers
15/01/2026 to 01/02/2026

Actors and performers with different abilities take to the stage to make difference visible in this dance-theatre piece by Vero Cendoya, with dramaturgy co-created with Israel Solà. An exploration of illness, disability, and the right to choose the life we want to live, inspired by Brilliant Imperfection by disabled and queer activist Eli Clare.

Maria Magdalena
Michael De Cock
Dramaturgy: Carme Portaceli and Inés Boza
Sala Gran
22/01/2026 to 22/02/2026

Miriam, a teacher, travels from Brussels to Barcelona to give a lecture on Maria Magdalena. She leaves her young daughter behind and makes the important decision to divorce her husband. When she arrives at Barcelona airport, the taxi driver waiting for her claims to be Jesus.

Teatre Casino L’Aliança

Cicle de Cobla 2026: Jordi León Sardanes vol.3
12/01/26 – 7:00 pm

HOLA RAFFAELLA!

16/01/26 – 9:00 pm

A live show featuring music, dancers, and an Italian performer (Vanessa Grillone) who embodies the diva, reviving her greatest hits such as “Fiesta” and “A far l’amore comincia tu”.

UNA ROSA ÉS UNA ROSA 
17/01/26 – 9:00 pm

Una rosa és una rosa, a Mundo Futuro production paying tribute to Mecano.

TONI ALBÀ – 50 dANYS DE dMEMOCRÀCIA
18/01/26 – 5:00 pm

Audiència con un Rey muy Franco

The play revolves around the preparation, rehearsal, and delivery of the celebratory speech and the commemorative event marking the death of dictator Franco and the “50 YEARS OF DEMOCRACY”. During the rehearsal of the official ceremony, the King hears all the instructions coming from the control room through an earpiece. The situations unfold as conflicts between the character’s obligations, his incompetence in carrying them out, and his complete lack of desire to do so.

El Trencanous – Ballet de Barcelona
24/01/26 – 6:00 pm

The Ballet de Barcelona, under the artistic direction of Chase Johnsey, arrives at L’Aliança del Poblenou theatre to present its production of this repertory ballet: El Trencanous, one of the most distinctive works by renowned Romantic composer P. I. Tchaikovsky (Russia, 1840), now considered a worldwide classic.

Sala Beckett

Recital: Ecografia
Greta Sibling
13/01/26 – 7:00 pm

Her first work, Ecografia (Ed. Galerada), won unanimously the 60th Amadeu Oller Poetry Prize. She believes poetry should be harsh and vulnerable, and poems like a bout of indigestion, like photographs taken from the inside: ultrasounds.

Tallar-se el peu amb una motoserra
Bárbara Mestanza
15/01/26 to 08/02/26

Two journalists publish a series of articles exposing sexual abuse committed by several directors and politicians. These articles became the #MeToo the country needed, triggering a revolution that forced these men to abandon their professional lives and face mass cancellation nationwide. But one Monday they receive key information that casts doubt on their entire career: Ricard Roig, one of the accused, has attempted suicide. With the appearance of the accused man’s daughter, reality asserts itself and cracks begin to appear in the dominant narratives.

Com vaig aprendre a conduir
de Paula Vogel
Translation by Helena Tornero
28/01/26 to 01/03/26

A woman holds a secret that, after years of silence, she is about to reveal. Cosita — a nickname she was given at birth, defined by her sex — guides us on an emotional journey through the twists and turns of memory: in the front seat of a car, in the family dining room, in the corridors of the high school, places where her emotional and sexual education takes shape, distorted by the misogynistic and sexualized gaze of her surroundings.

In 2026, Poblenou lives and breathes theatre!