Theaters in Venice

Palazzo del Cinema

Theater

Info Palazzo del Cinema is the main screening venue of the La Biennale Venice Film Festival. It is considered a great honor for international directors whose works make it into Palazzo del Cinema, which made its debut in 1937 on the festival’s 5th anniversary. Inside the four-floor Palazzo del Cinema are four screening rooms ... more

Lungomare Guglielmo Marconi, 30
30126 Venice

Teatro San Gallo

Theater

Info Located in Campo San Gallo, near the famous Piazza San Marco in Venice, is the performance venue, Teatro San Gallo. Each night of the year the theater features Venezia: The Story of Venice, an English-language show that celebrates the history of the city. Teatro San Gallo also hosts a daily film screening. The 260 seats ... more

Campo San Gallo
Sestiere Castello, 4209
30125 Venice

La Biennale

Concert Venue / Theater

Info La Biennale is a modern art exhibition and festival that occurs every two years in Venice, Italy. Established in 1895, the Biennale was created to promote Italian art, but today features international art from 30 different countries. The festival is held in 12 different venue spaces, the main one being Giardini Park, and ... more

Ca' Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A
30124 Venice

Teatro alle Tese

Theater

Info Teatro alle Tese is an exhibition venue located in the Arsenale naval complex of Venice, Italy. The theater, which opened in 2000, is housed among the Tese Cinquecentesche warehouses. The open-air space, surrounded by 16th century stone arches, is used as the primary performance venue for theater, music, and dance productions ... more

Ca' Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A
30124 Venice

PalaBiennale

Performing Arts Center

Info PalaBiennale is a screening room located in Venice, Italy and used every two years for the International Film Festival during the La Biennale exhibition. Festival-goers come to PalaBiennale to catch one of the popular double-feature screenings dedicated to international cinema. PalaBiennale is one of five screening venues ... more

Ca' Giustinian, San Marco 1364/A
30124 Venice

Gran Teatro GEOX (Padua, Italy)

Theater

Info Gran Teatro GEOX is a multi-purpose live entertainment venue located in Padua, a city in the Veneto region of northern Italy. The theater features international talent performing in live concerts, theater, family musicals, dance, and comedy shows. Gran Teatro GEOX aspires to achieve optimum entertainment value for its ... more

Corso Australia, 55
35136 Padua

After strolling down the beautiful hidden streets and ambling along the stunning canals, what could put a better cap on the day than checking out a show at a Venice theater?

The city being the size that it is, you aren’t going to be overwhelmed with options, but will certainly find some of the theaters in Venice to be just as beautiful as, well, everything else in this town. Gran Teatro La Fenice (“The Phoenix”) is the most modern Venice theater, and the venue is certainly aptly named given it was destroyed by fire and rebuilt twice since first opening in the 1790s. If you’re into catching some opera, Fenice is the place to do it, although opera is really the cornerstone of most of the theaters in Venice.

Tourists looking for a fun way to learn about Venice need only go to Teatro San Gallo, which every night features a show called “Venezia” chronicling a thousand years of Venice history, while those in the mood for something more avant-garde should check out the calendar at La Biennale, a theater known for promoting new artistic trends and contemporary arts and for hosting the Venice International Film Festival.

Lovers of dance would be wise to make their way to Teatro alle Tese inside the historic Venice Arsenale. Tese is easily the top theater in Venice for modern dance productions, and the beautiful open space in which it is located actually began life as a place where sails for boats were stretched way back in the 16th Century. How cool is that?