Table Of Contents
- La Scala Theater
- Piccolo Teatro di Milano
- Dal Verme Theater
- National Theater
- Giorgio Gaber Opera Theater
- Arcimboldi Theater (TAM)
- Repower Theater (formerly Teatro della Luna)
- Manzoni Theater
- Verdi Theater
- Elfo Puccini Theater
- Filodrammatici Theater
- Litta Theater
- Carcano Theater
- Franco Parenti Theater
- Out Off Theater
- Menotti Theater
- Fontana Theater
- Gerolamo Theater
- EcoTeatro
- Martinitt Theater
- Leonardo da Vinci Theater
- Spazio Tertulliano Theater
- Ringhiera Theater
- Teatro Officina
- Urban Cultural Sea
- Arsenale Theater
- Blue Theater Milan
- Cooperative Theater
- Theatre Camp
- LaCucina Theater
- Theater of Contradiction
- PACTA . dei Teatri – Salone
In many respects, Milan can be considered the beating heart of Italian culture. Indeed, it boasts a large number of museums and art galleries, but above all, it counts a theatrical tradition that has its roots back in 1778, when the Teatro alla Scala first opened its curtain.
Since then, Milan’s theater scene has never stopped evolving and surprising.
Milan offers a theater scene that ranges across different genres, styles and traditions. This variety not only enriches cultural offerings for citizens and visitors, but also stimulates creativity and innovation in the field, consolidating Milan’s role as a world-class cultural capital.
Here is the updated list of theaters in Milan.
La Scala Theater
Founded in 1778, it is the most prestigious opera house in the world, offering a full range of opera, ballet, concerts and symphonic season, directed by great international masters.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Filodrammatici, 2, 20121 Milan
Piccolo Teatro di Milano
The largest theater in Europe, flagship of the Milanese theater system, a theatrical institution consisting of three venues (Teatro Grassi, Teatro Studio Melato, Teatro Strehler). Known for a keen eye on the civil, political and pedagogical dimensions of theater, it offers children’s activities and tours, with a repertoire of high artistic quality.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Main address (Strehler Theater): Largo Greppi, 1, 20121 Milan
Dal Verme Theater
Established as an opera house, the historic home of the “I Pomeriggi Musicali” Orchestra, today it hosts symphony concerts, family festivals, and high-level classical music, as well as performances and lectures.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via San Giovanni sul Muro 2, 20121 Milan, Italy
National Theater
Well-known space for productions of international musicals, performance events and major titles; represents one of Milan’s leading venues for musicals and commercial prose.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Giordano Rota, 1, 20149 Milan, Italy
Giorgio Gaber Opera Theater
Historic and renovated theater offers a season that mixes prose, music, cabaret, often with a social and cultural slant. It hosts events such as Milano per Gaber.
🎭Season 2025/2026 site
📍Address: Via Larga, 14, 20122 Milan
Arcimboldi Theater (TAM)
A modern, spacious, multipurpose theater in the Bicocca district, it hosts concerts, drama, musicals, and dance, as well as family events and large productions.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Viale dell’Innovazione, 20, 20126 Milan, Italy
Repower Theater (formerly Teatro della Luna)
Modern theater in collaboration with Repower, offers musicals, drama, dance, family shows, with strong focus on popular entertainment.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Giuseppe Di Vittorio, 6, 20090 Assago MI
Manzoni Theater
Historic and elegant prose theater in the heart of Milan, specializing in brilliant comedies, with a focus on classics and contemporary works, often featuring major names in Italian theater and comedy.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Alessandro Manzoni, 42, 20121 Milan, Italy
Verdi Theater
This historic theater continues to offer varied programming, from prose to music and performances by local companies.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Pastrengo 16, 20159 Milan
Elfo Puccini Theater
Among Milan’s leading centers for contemporary prose, fiction and experimentation, in addition to its commitment to contemporary theater.
📍Address: Corso Buenos Aires, 33, 20124 Milan
Filodrammatici Theater
Historic neoclassical-liberty Milanese theater located in the heart of the city, next to Piazza Duomo and Teatro alla Scala. Managed by the Accademia dei Filodrammatici, it is a reference point for contemporary Italian and foreign drama, with original performances, activities for schools and cultural and conference events.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: P.za Paolo Ferrari, 6, 20121 Milan
Litta Theater
Part of the MTM (Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi) circuit, this is the oldest theater still in operation in Milan, with two halls (Teatro Litta and La Cavallerizza). It offers a playbill ranging from contemporary Italian and foreign drama to the great classics in a modern key, often featuring young artists and children’s theater.
🎭 Season 2025/2026: site
📍Address: Corso Magenta, 24, 20123 Milan
Carcano Theater
In the Porta Vigentina area, one of Milan’s oldest theaters of prose, music and independent shows, offering eclectic programming including classics and new plays.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Corso di Porta Romana, 63, 20122 Milan
Franco Parenti Theater
A space for theatrical innovation and training, as well as a multipurpose cultural center, Teatro Franco Parenti offers a varied program of performances, from contemporary prose to dance, as well as festivals and multidisciplinary events.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Pier Lombardo, 14, 20135 Milan, Italy
Out Off Theater
Independent cultural center, offers theater, cabaret, alternative music and cultural reviews.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Mac Mahon 16, 20155 Milan
Menotti Theater
A 1960s jewel in the heart of Città Studi, Teatro Menotti is a space for contemporary drama, research theater and live music, with independent workshops and reviews.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Ciro Menotti 11, 20129 Milan, Italy
Fontana Theater
In the Isola district, it is a landmark for contemporary theater and new dramaturgy, home of the Elsinor company. It organizes small cultural events.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Gian Antonio Boltraffio 21, 20159 Milan, Italy
Gerolamo Theater
A recently restored small historic Italian-style theater specializing in puppetry and figure theater, a multipurpose venue for musical events, theater, and occasional cultural events.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Piazza Cesare Beccaria 8, 20122 Milan, Italy
EcoTeatro
Independent space in Milan that stands out for its commitment to environmental and cultural sustainability, with a season that combines civil theater, music, prose, and artistic contaminations (more than 50 appointments between prose, music, and civil theater in the 2025/26 season).
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍 Address: Via Fezzan 11, Milan (City Hall 6)
Martinitt Theater
Known for its brilliant comedies and cabaret shows, it is a reference point for light theater. It develops the Teatro-in-family formula with proposals for children and young people, shows and educational activities, children’s theater and products for schools.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Riccardo Pitteri 58, 20134 Milan, Italy
Leonardo da Vinci Theater
Part of the MTM (Manifatture Teatrali Milanesi) circuit, it offers varied programming ranging from contemporary theater to comedy, offering family shows, comedy performances and live music.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Andrea Maria Ampère Street 1, 20131 Milan, Italy
Spazio Tertulliano Theater
Independent Neighborhood Hall and theater workshop, promoting amateur theater, dance, music and classes. Active place of cultural, independent, experimental and local productions.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Tertulliano 68, 20137 Milan, Italy
Ringhiera Theater
Social and cultural space in the suburbs, participatory theater, music, meetings and local productions. In addition to performances it offers courses and workshops.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Boifava 17, 20142 Milan
Teatro Officina
A small suburban theater that has been promoting social and community theater for over 40 years. With workshops, training, live music and independent reviews.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Sant’Elembardo 2, 20126 Milan, Italy
Urban Cultural Sea
Former industrial space transformed into a cultural center with theater, concerts, street art, workshops, meetings and environmental festivals. More than a theater, a real cultural hub.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Quinto Cenni, 11, 20147 Milan, Italy
Arsenale Theater
Production and experimental space for performing arts, dance, and music; often connected to independent festivals.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Cesare Correnti 11, 20123 Milan
Blue Theater Milan
Theater research center and venue for prose, cabaret, concerts and events. It hosts courses, seminars, musical initiatives and performances for families and adults in a modern facility near the Central Station.
🎭 Season 2025/2026 : site
📍 Address: entrance from courtyard of S. Angela Merici Church, Via Giovanni Cagliero 26, 20125 Milan (Gioia-Zara area, M5 Marche)
Cooperative Theater
A cultural association founded in 2001 in Niguarda, it promotes theater of civic engagement, historical memory and multiculturalism with a 189-seat auditorium and training activities and workshops, as well as touring throughout Lombardy.
🎭 Season 2025/2026 : site
📍 Address: Via Privata Hermada 8, 20162 Milan, Italy
Theatre Camp
Founded in 1999, it is creative hub for training (acting, singing, dance) and theater production. It organizes festivals such as “Premio Scenario 2025” and hosts performances of new languages of contemporary theater.
🎭 Season 2025/2026 : site
📍 Address: entrance from Via Cambiasi 10, administrative headquarters at Via Casoretto 41/A, 20131 Milan, Italy
LaCucina Theater
A space run by the Olinda association that offers programming ranging from contemporary theater to dance, via concerts and site-specific performances. It is a brilliant example of how theater can become a tool for urban and cultural regeneration.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via Ippocrate 45, 20161 Milan, Italy
Theater of Contradiction
Founded in 1991, this theater is a true laboratory for theatrical experimentation, critical and poetic prose. Their approach is based on “contradiction” as the engine of art, bringing irreconcilable points of view into dialectic to interrogate reality.
🎭Season 2025/2026 : site
📍Address: Via della Braida 6, 20122 Milan
PACTA . dei Teatri – Salone
A cultural association active since 2008 and recognized by MIC, it offers classical and contemporary prose seasons and reviews such as DonneTeatroDiritti, ScienzaInScena, pactaSOUNDzone and Vetrina Contemporanea.
🎭 Season 2025/2026 : site
📍 Address: Via Ulisse Dini 7, Milan (Città Studi area)