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 Cooperator
Are there any plays in Buenos Aires that combine the enigma of a detective story with humor and suspense? In El Cooperador, yes. A chemist invents a machine to dissolve bodies. A murderer hires him to provide his services. The police enter the business and the company grows, becoming the largest and most productive in history. El Cooperador builds a powerful, funny plot, full of suspense, malice and acid humor, in which different characters reveal their meanest aspects.
Teatro Andamio📍Paraná 660
📅 Saturdays 18:30hs
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. Las Juanas
Las Juanas are eight women, eight Juanas and with them eight stories of struggle, resistance and transformation about women who fought wars, lived through the convent and prison, liberated towns and were themselves. It is a work that fuses physical theater, poetry and memory, and invites you to reflect on the legacy of women who broke mandates and opened roads.
Teatro La Carpintería 📍Jean Jaures 858
📅Saturdays 8pm
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. Saraos Uranistas
Saraos Uranistas is a musical theater play that arises from imagining an improbable historical event: the meeting of La Bella Otero, a transvestite from Buenos Aires, and her friends with Francisco De Veyga, a Buenos Aires police doctor. Delirium seeps into the medical discourse. Fantasizing with images of the past that promise us other futures. Saraos Uranistas is an exercise of re-imagination, a “what if” that enables us a silhouette of utopia.
📍El Galpón de Guevara – Guevara 326
📅 Tuesdays. 20.30hs
8. 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
9. 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.
10. Las Criadas
The Maids is a play by Jean Genet that in this case has its revision, biting, audacious and very current at the 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
11. 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
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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
15. 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.
16. Mabel Always Authentic
Mabel Siempre Auténtica is an explosive comedy with Mabel as the iconic starring 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)
17. 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
18. 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
19. Las Criadas
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
20. 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
21. False Prophets
Falsos Profetas is a performative show in which five professional magicians reveal the intimacy of the art that has dominated their lives. Through a story full of humor and theatricality these magicians struggle not to betray their secrets and passions as they face an inescapable truth: one never stops being a magician.
Area 623📍Pasco 623
📅 Tuesdays. 20.30hs
22. Scorpio
Marina, a Scorpio actress, fights boredom by pulling the garbage out from under the carpet. Sebastian, her partner, is tired of living between scenes and acting out characters for sex. She wants to write. He wants to stop working with his dad. An anti-romantic comedy about losing love to find each other.
Espacio Callejón 📍Humahuaca 3759.
📅Friday. 22hs
23. Al Final Las Tragedias No Mejoran a Nadie (In the End, Tragedies Don’t Make Anyone Better)
“Al final las tragedias no mejoran a nadie” is a dramatic comedy that invites you to reflect on duels, desires and second chances. Berta and Luisa are two widows who survive on gossip, burials and card games. While they go through their mourning, they inherit a run-down hotel where Cecilia, a young pregnant woman, arrives.
Saturdays 8.30 pm
📍Mexico 3554
24. For Abnormal
A group of parents meet at the school principal’s house to put an end to a problem: Franco can no longer be part
of 4°B because of his sociability conflicts. But everything gets complicated when the boy’s mother shows up. Tangled discussions and the most hilarious and absurd situations unleash chaos. When the expulsion seems a fact, an unexpected twist changes everything.
📅Friday 8.30 pm
Teatro Asterión 📍Zelaya 3122
25. Queer Opera
From Saturday, August 2 and every Saturday at midnight, comes Opera Queer. The twins Ferni and Luchi De Gyldenfelt display their talent performing a diverse repertoire that includes opera, zarzuela, musicals, arias, chamber duets and popular music from different periods. Each presentation proposes a critical look that challenges traditional readings on gender binarism and human bonds throughout history.
📍Enrique S. Discépolo 1857
26. Falling
Luciano Castro stars in this one-man show in a story that relives the golden age of Argentine boxing from an intimate point of view.
The story revolves around Junior, a boxer with talent to spare, but trapped in a fight even more difficult than those in the ring: the one against his own demons. An emotional journey that brings into play strength, fall and redemption.
Teatro Picadero 📍Pasaje Santos Discépolo 1857
📅21 and 28 August
27. My Best Moment
Bermúdez and several colleagues begin to suffer systematic harassment at work that pushes them to the limit when the owner of the company states that the team needs a leader. Bermudez takes up the challenge: he organizes the employees and together, they take control of the company. From that moment on, each harasser will have to face, face to face, the person he harmed.
Mi mejor momento combines drama, black humor and a powerful reflection on violence in work relationships. Live symphonic band, LED screens, three dynamic stages and an immersive lighting design.
Teatro Margarita Xirgu📍Chacabuco 875
📅Sundays. 20hs
28. El Trabajo
El Trabajo takes as its starting point the workshops that playwright, writer and theater director Federico León has been teaching for fifteen years. On this occasion, León takes the stage to experience, in first person, his own teaching practice.
Zelaya Teatro 📍Zelaya 3134
Fridays and Saturdays. 20hs
29. El Grito y El Silencio
The plot of El Grito y El Silencio takes place in two historical moments (1868 and 1914) and introduces you to two women united by an indestructible bond, although they themselves resist it. Two women, two looks that come to life in a sensitive text.
Andamio 90📍Paraná 660
📅Friday 20.30hs
30. Entre Tus Siestas
Physical theater comedy, Entre Tus Siestas dives into the intimacy of a couple facing the contradiction between the love for their son and the total loss of their lives. Navigating through the most unusual fears, with their house turned upside down and run over by sleep, they will do the impossible to avoid shipwreck and come out of it together.
Camarin de las Musas📍Mario Bravo 960
📅Sundays. 17hs
31. Breathe
Respirar, Bitácora escénica en un acto proposes you to inhabit the different rhythms of breathing as a vital gesture, from a clinical and biographical journey of the performer Pilar Ruiz. If breathing is to exist, then perhaps life is what happens between each involuntary inhalation and exhalation. But what happens when the body becomes the protagonist and life is reduced to the effort of breathing? Tickets are free of charge.
Sala de Máquinas📍Lavalle 1145
Saturdays 20.30hs
32. Tooth for Tooth
On the day that was supposed to be perfect, an impeccable bride is surprised by an unexpected twist of fate: an accident ruins her wedding and leaves a mark on her body that transforms her illusion into a real torment. But that is just the beginning: in the middle of the celebration, a gigantic rat appears, unleashing fears and shadows that seem to emerge from the deepest depths. A tragicomic one-man show that crosses the language of clown, the physical comedy that you cannot miss.
Savia Cultural📍Jufre 127
📅Fridays 22.30hs
33. Dr. Calvo’s circus
An immersive experience that invites you to put on VR glasses, headphones and controls to immerse yourself in an interactive universe full of levels, characters and challenges that each one goes through in a unique way, until reaching an alternative ending. A playful and dramatic experience that, in its denouement, completely transforms the meaning of the journey with a twist of perspective.
📅From Tuesday, October 7.
AReA 623 📍Pasco 625
34. A Room of One’s Own
A Room of One’s Own is a reflection on work and love. What are women’s bodies like? What do their hands look like? What traces did their work leave? How do they project themselves into the world? From the stories of her mother and grandmothers, a woman explores how other women, even in distant geographies, offered their bodies to the service of life and society. This play arrives from Uruguay and is presented only once, on September 28.
📅September 28
Planta Inclán 📍Inclán 2661
35. How to learn to be alone
DECAES is both a living arts work and a survival manual: a small first aid kit for the imagination.
With resources from theater, dance and visual arts, the piece proposes a critique of the medicated individualism of our times. In the intimacy of her rented studio apartment, a proactive and enterprising employee searches for the perfect phrase to justify her loneliness and the fragility of her existence.
How to sustain the mood and design strategies that bring us closer to desire? How to escape the isolation that erodes life in common? Is it possible to collapse the idea of “one’s own life” to give way to new imaginaries, beyond the obligation to resist or the promise of happiness?
📅Monday October. 20.30hs.
Espacio Callejón 📍Humahuaca 3759
36. Teatro Esencial: De Amores Perdidos (Of Lost Loves)
A comedy that returns to continue exploring a universal theme: the loves that, although gone, still beat. De Amores Pedidos returns to the stage renewed with new stories. This play brings together six short plays that mix humor and emotion. A theatrical experience that invites you to laugh, remember and reflect through stories of (dis)love in which anyone can see themselves reflected.
📅Friday 8pm
Teatro Border 📍Godoy Cruz 1838
37. The Body Falls
A falling body is a documentary play that explores the lives of four women and constantly challenges the way society observes and defines old age. We are four old women who continue to desire and make it clear that the passage of time does not nullify desire or vitality.
📅Sundays October 5-12-19 at 7 pm. Sunday, November 2 at 7 pm.
Teatro El ecéntrico de la 18 📍Lerma 420
38. Fungible Matter
Materia fungible is a play that questions the logic that transforms bodies into disposable resources. The piece builds a scenic landscape crossed by injustice and resistance, where bodies rise up against their condition of merchandise. The dancing body appears as living memory, surface of political writing and territory of what cannot be silenced.
📅Thursday November at 8:30 p.m.
Centro Cultural de la Cooperación Floreal Gorini 📍 Av. Corrientes 1543
39. The Epic of the Unknown
With a very particular aesthetic and as a musical theater, “The Epic of the Unknown” is a journey into the interior of the minds, trying to reach that ignorance that constitutes us, a symbolic journey that tells the story of a young man who undergoes a new innovative method to erase his past, trying to calm the suffering through oblivion.
📅Sundays 17hs
📍Ítaca Complejo Teatral – Humahuaca 4027
40. Overload
In Sobrecarga, cinema, body and music merge on the same plane. The work explores the body as a disputed territory: visible, available and demanded matter. In a system that observes and consumes, the body becomes an exhibition and also an escape. A landscape of control where the crack opens space for resistance. Nothing happens outside: everything happens inside us.
📅Thursday 23, Friday 24, Saturday 25
📅Tuesday 28th, Wednesday 29th, Thursday 30th and Friday 31st October at 8:30 p.m.
📅Saturday, November 1 at 8:30 p.m.
📅Sunday, November 2 at 6:00 pm
📍 Experimentation Center of the Teatro Colón (Cerrito 628)
41. Mika from Frankfurt
At Teatro La Tangente, the songs and humor of Mika de Frankfurt return. Mika Solo Set narrates the itinerant life of this international trans artist who turns her experiences into songs full of humor, sensitivity and emotion. Accompanied by her inseparable accordion, Mika invites the audience to enter her world, where laughter, tenderness and reflection coexist in a show as intimate as it is unforgettable.
📍Honduras 5317
📅 Mondays. 20hs
42. Rosaura at Ten o’clock
Rosaura a las Diez tells the story of a crime through five different protagonists, each one adding a piece to the puzzle with his or her unique and distinctive voice. Consciously or unconsciously, they all lie; at the same time, they all tell the truth. One mystery to be solved, five different perspectives, all credible, but none definitive.
📅Saturday 29/11 at 8:30 pm. Teatro El Excéntrico de la 18 – Lerma 420-.
📅Sunday 30/11 at 8 pm. Teatro El Excéntrico de la 18 – Lerma 420- 📅Saturday 29/11 at 8:30 pm.
Friday 5/12 – Saturday 6/12 – Sunday 7/12 at 8 pm. Teatro Belisario – Corrientes 1624
43. Family Council
Concejo de Familia is a dramatic comedy in which a family has established a democracy in the house, with a president, electoral rules and even its own economic system. But when the daughter questions the model and demands a change, a crisis is unleashed that will test the family balance.
📅Thursday October and Friday November. 20hs
Border Theater 📍Godoy Cruz 1838
44. No Filter
A biting and topical comedy that reflects on isolation, filters and the need to be seen authentically. Year 2035. Zoe, an influencer at the height of her fame, lives confined to a bunker because of her agoraphobia. Her perfect life is actually a digital illusion constructed by her virtual assistant, Era. But a new update threatens to reveal the truth behind the character. Zoe will be forced to confront her own reality… and her only ally: the artificial intelligence that created her world.
📅Thursday November 8 p.m.
Border Theater 📍 Godoy Cruz 1838
45. Los Huesos del Mapuche
Facundo asked Pablo and Javi to meet for a moment. He didn’t tell them why, only that it was something important. It had been more than twenty years since they had met, and it was not exactly a good night to do so: it was raining like never before in the village. But there are rains (and rivers) that carry more than water… and they are ready to bring to light secrets they thought were buried forever.
Moscow Theater📍Juan Ramirez de Velasco 535
📅 F riday at 9 p.m.
46. Humanitas Al Poder
The high school “Bendición del Sagrado Auxilio” chose the Department of Humanities to organize its Annual Day of Knowledge. After a vote, the theme selected was “The Agony of Eros”. Professors María de los Ángeles Aguilar and Ana Garay proposed to address this issue from reflection and problematization, in a time when almost everything seems to dilute or confuse the meaning of Eros. But an inevitable question arises: how to awaken desire in young people if they themselves seem to give in to the agony of Eros? And first of all… what is, in reality, Eros?
📅Sundays in November at 7 pm (and re-release in 2026).
Teatro Páramo Cultural 📍 Carlos Calvo 3974 .
Admission: A la gorra.
47. This is the Baile del Monito
On an island in the Río de la Plata converted by its new inhabitants into a sort of paradise in the style of North American Florida, a jurist and a Roman emperor talk about the loss of power in an exile as forced as uncertain. Between discussions about the pillars of their new society, both reflect on the fate of those who once followed their delusions of grandeur. Through absurdity, humor and a dystopian and futuristic criollismo, the play proposes a syncretism between the universe of Albert Camus and his Caligula, and the Argentine popular imaginary.
📍 Centro Cultural de la Cooperación – 1543 Corrientes Ave.
Saturdays 10.30pm
48. I Am Not Frida
Yo No Soy Frida unfolds the love triangle starring Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Cristina Kahlo, younger sister of the artist and takes place during the Day of the Dead, when the three souls return to the stage to tell their own story.
El Grito Theater 📍 Costa Rica 5459
📅Friday at 8pm
49. Castelli, the lightning
Castelli, el rayo portrays the exceptional days of Juan José Castelli, a lawyer at the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange who becomes commander of the revolutionary army of the Junta de Gobierno de las Provincias Unidas del Río de la Plata. The story takes place amidst the frenzy and fever of an era convulsed by external and internal wars. In the midst of this chaos, the figure of Castelli, the orator of the revolution, emerges.
📅 Monday 9 pm
Hasta Trilce Theater 📍 Maza 177