There are so many theaters and plays to see in Buenos Aires that choosing is a lot of work. This 2025 Buenos Aires explodes with theater as always. There is so much to see that we have put together a list of the best plays in Buenos Aires this 2025 for you to choose from, including comedies, dramas, alternative and commercial theater. Theater for all tastes and budgets because what matters is that culture lives. Experience the theater of Buenos Aires and choose your play:
1. The Bingueras by Euripides
Las Bingueras de Eurípides” is a tragic and overflowing comedy, where myth and everyday life intersect in a clandestine bingo. The play is inspired by The Bacchae, by Euripides. The play follows a group of women who, among cards, confessions and challenges, find in the game much more than chance: a space of resistance, community and liberation, until Dionysia arrives to disrupt everything.
📅 Saturdays 6pm
📍Itaca Complejo Teatral – Humahuaca 4027
2. When Frank Met Carlitos
This is a musical that returns this summer to the Buenos Aires billboard and the imaginary meeting that Carlos Gardel and Frank Sinatra had in New York around 1934 returns to the emblematic stage of the Astral Theater.
Wednesdays to Sundays at 8pm and Saturdays at 8pm and 10pm.
📍Teatro Astral, 1639 Corrientes Ave.
3. The Funeral of the Objects
El Funeral de los Objetos tells the story of a group of very particular and unknown people who come together to take part in a strange funeral after seeing an advertisement in a subway brochure. Already in its fourth season, this play is magnificent and is one of the best plays in Buenos Aires for this 2025.
📍Paseo La Plaza – 1660 Corrientes Av.
📅 Tuesdays 20:30hs
4. Made in Lanus
This play is a classic of Argentine theater written by Nelly Fernández Tiscornia. Two couples who are family reunite for a reunion. One of them, an Argentine couple visiting from the United States, the other, a middle class couple surviving as best they can the vicissitudes of living in Argentina. You can imagine everything that can happen and everything you can feel with such an Argentine and timeless plot, can’t you? With Made in Lanús, you get excited, you cry, you laugh and you feel everything. As it should be when you go to the theater.
Teatro Multitabaris 📍 Av. Corrientes 831
5. Escape Room
Four characters in an escape room set in the Second World War, a challenge to meet and overcome and a series of very strange events that begin to happen that do not seem to be typical of the escape room. Suspense, laughter and an unexpected ending await you in one of the most popular Buenos Aires plays of the season.
Multitabaris Theater 📍Avenida Corrientes 831
6. If you have never been, try the Microteatro.
Microteatro is just that, short plays of no more than 15 minutes. At Microteatro de Palermo you can have a drink or a snack and choose whether to see 1, 2 or 3 short plays. Short plays, drama, comedy, and always a surprise. The surprise of seeing that theater is for everyone, all tastes, all budgets and covers all the sensations you are looking for.
📍Micro Theater Serrano 1139
7. Doll or the shipwreck
In a theater on Corrientes Avenue, a group of actors rehearses the play Muñeca by Armando Discépolo. During this process, jealousy, envy and love come to light, with an ending where fiction and reality mix in a hilarious comedy.
Leónidas Barletta Experimental Space 📍 Roque Sáenz Peña 943 Av.
8. Paquito…The Head against the Ground
Paco Jaumandreu was the designer of Eva Perón but also much more than that, he was a multifaceted person full of art that you can get to know in this work. Songs, memories, café-concert numbers, stars of the national scene, unpublished ephemeris, scenes woven by the thread of the memory of an extraordinary and little known person.
📍Metropolitan Theater – 1343 Corrientes Ave.
📅 Thursdays. 8.15pm
9. My Books Your Books
At Teatro El Extranjero you can immerse yourself in the life of a couple who have just separated and to whom a fantastic episode happens: their books, those with which they lived in their library for years, are mixed and now become new texts. New stories for a new life, separated, or new stories that arose, without realizing it, precisely because of what they shared. From February 7th.
📍Valentin Gomez 3378
📅 Fridays at 8pm
10. The Measures
Las Medidas begins its third season on February 6. The show tells the story of Mara and Pablo, a couple determined to find new ways to revitalize their love. With an innovative proposal, they incorporate a third participant to fan the flame between them. In addition, each performance features a special surprise guest who improvises an entire scene.
The Measures.
📅 Thursdays 21hs
📍Nün Teatro Bar, Velasco 419
👉 Tickets at the alternativa teatral website and at the box office.
11. La Madre
La Madre is a comedy with great performances. The story of The Mother tells the story of Sophie, an elderly, widowed and moody woman, who lives with her daughter and her husband. Because of a “small” family problem they are forced to take Sophie to their other daughter’s house without asking her. You guessed it: living with Sophie will complicate everyone’s life to unimaginable levels.
📍Multiteatro – 1238 Corrientes Av.
📅 Wednesdays to Mondays. 20hs.
👉 Tickets from 30mil.
12. My Books Your Books
A couple that separates and the books of the two who, when they separate, mix their stories to create new, crazy, incredible, impossible stories. What if the Little Prince became a treatise on capitalism or Moby Dick wasn’t about whales? My Books Your Books makes you think about what remains after a separation even when people still love each other and is a beautiful reflection on what unites us and at the same time separates us from the one we love.
📅 Friday at 8pm.
El Extranjero 📍Valentín Gómez 3378
13. The Maids
The Maids is a play by Jean Genet that in this case has its biting, audacious and very current revision at Itaca Complejo Teatral. Clara and Solange are two maids who go to the limit and beyond, capable of anything, even diabolical rituals, both are ready for crime, they adore the Mistress, they envy her but are they ready to get out of this slavery?
📅 Friday. 22hs
Ítaca Complejo teatral 📍Humahuaca 4027
14. Con Las Manos Atadas
Victims of a robbery, a notary public and her secretary are tied back to back in the notary’s office. Elena and Gutiérrez, who have shared the job for years, do not know anything about each other, they are like strangers. Neither of them will be the same at the end of that long night where life puts them face to face… or back to back. This play by Claudia Piñeiro can be seen in March and April 2025.
Método Kairos 📍El Salvador 4530
📅 Saturdays. 18hs
15. Sentirme Viva
Sentirme Viva is a one-woman show that explores the existential questions of human beings through Olivia. Between drama and comedy, this play immerses you in Olivia’s journey and her tireless search for the meaning of life.
Kairos Method 📍El Salvador 4530
📅 Fridays. 22.30hs
16. I am also Ofelia
Yo también soy Ofelia is a contemporary version of Shakespeare. In this one-woman show, the character of Ophelia becomes modern and personal. The tragic and the comic coexist, just as fiction and reality intersect all the time.
Teatro Beckett 📍Guardia Vieja 3560
📅 Fridays 8pm.
17. The Miser by Moliere
Harpagon, a man whose obsession for wealth leads him to neglect his loved ones. In his insatiable greed, he does not enjoy, does not smile, does not share. His pettiness awakens the grotesque and provokes the rejection of those around him: his children, his servants and his closest circle.
MUY Teatro📍Humahuaca 4310
📅 Sundays. 18hs.
18. Plot
A recently separated couple meets so that their daughter can spend New Year’s Eve with her mother. What begins as a casual chat ends in a midnight sexual reunion.
Up to that point, Plot seems like a kind of play, but then, in the middle of the night, some men break into the ex-couple’s apartment, forcing them to star in someone else’s fiction. Every separation is a fiction, one in which it is almost never possible to act well, says its author. Tempting plot, isn’t it? Precisely. Let yourself be tempted by Plot at Espacio Callejón. This play will be added to the wide range of plays in Buenos Aires from April 13.
Espacio Callejón 📍Humahuaca 3759
📅 Sundays. 20hs.
19. A History of Humor of the 900
If you want theater in your weekend, Una Historia de Humor del 900 is gestural theater and clown with touches of comedy and nostalgia, all in perfect balance. A porteño tanguero and a Neapolitan immigrant from the Caminito neighborhood meet by chance and accidentally at a train station. Between them a love will be born that will accompany them throughout their lives… not without some misunderstandings along the way.
Teatro Avestruz 📍Humboldt 1857
📅 Saturdays. 17.30hs
20. We swear not to die of love
Three women, a conceptual artist, a Bolshevik feminist and a woman out of a Marguerite Duras novel, wake up in an unclassifiable place and start talking: about love? about the lack of love? about how to escape and not fall in love? An interesting play with three powerful women with powerful stories on stage.
📅 Mondays. 20.30hs
Itaca Complejo Teatral📍Humahuaca 4027
21. To the Barbarian I give Peace
In this play, four musical comedy actors immerse themselves in Walsh’s personality. Originally premiered in 2021, Al Bárbaro le doy Paz is based on texts and songs by María Elena Walsh for adults. A man child, a lover and a protesting woman are in charge of awakening Magoya’s conscience.
Andamio 90 📍Paraná 660.
📅 Saturdays 19hs.
22. Mabel Always Authentic
Mabel Siempre Auténtica is an explosive comedy with Mabel as the iconic main character. Mabel is a star of the 80’s who returns to prove why she is a true show business legend. Sharp tongue and unstoppable wit to face the follies of modern life while handling the adventures and misadventures with her daughter Monica.
📅 Friday 22:30hs.
📍 Savia Espacio Cultural (Jufré 127)
23. Daniel, I’m going to be the most famous gay in Chile.
Daniel, voy a ser el gay más famoso de Chile (Daniel, I’m going to be the most famous gay in Chile) is a look at the life of Daniel Zamudio. The play presents his life in a raw way, exploring his relationship with his family, his boyfriend and his killers, staging the homophobic crime that marked Chile in 2012. If you are looking for what plays to see in Buenos Aires, this staging at Teatro Buenos Aires is an interesting option.
📍Rodriguez Peña 411
📅 Thursdays 8pm
24. A Reasonable Doubt
Twelve members of an all-male and all-female jury must decide whether a teenager is responsible for killing his father. It seems they are all convinced of their position until one raises a reasonable doubt. This play is part of the most recommended billboard in Buenos Aires. Based on “Doce hombres en pugna” (Twelve men in a fight). You can see it on Corrientes Avenue.
📅 Monday 8pm
Buenos Aires Theater📍Rodríguez Peña 411
25. The Maids
Theater classics like this play always have several versions. In this version of The Maids, Clara and Solange work as maids for an upper class lady. Trapped in a routine, the sisters channel their frustration through a game that ends for no one well.
📅 Saturday. 19hs.
Sala Cortazar del Paseo La Plaza📍Av. Corrientes 1666
26. Need to love above marginal appropriation.
Necesidad de amar por encima de la apropiación marginal is a biodrama based on letters written by El Negro, kept by Ayelén. These letters recreate, through memories, a love relationship between a neighborhood boy and an aspirational actress recently arrived in the big city. Three actresses and four actors fictionalize real people, a thin line between the imaginary and the real.
Páramo Cultural 📍Carlos Calvo 3974
📅 Fridays. 20.30hs