43rd Autumn Festival

The Community of Madrid Autumn Festival, considered to be Spain’s best performing arts festival, will be holding its 43rd edition from 6 to 30 November 2025, with a special programme that stands out for its marked international feel. This event includes the best theatre, dance and performance shows that will fill different cultural spaces around the city, such as Teatros del Canal, Conde Duque or the Teatro de La Abadía, among others.

The 2025 Autumn Festival will bring together a total of 23 theatre, dance, music and poetry shows from 17 countries. The programme will be spread out among the Teatros del Canal, the Conde Duque Contemporary Culture Centre, the Teatro de La Abadía, the Réplika Teatro, Sala Cuarta Pared, the Teatro Pradillo, the Teatro Auditorio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial and the Teatro del Bosque de Móstoles.

Christos Papadopoulos, Emma Dante, Lukas Avendaño, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Alain Platel with Fabrizio Cassol and Rodriguez Vangama or Alondra de la Parra are the highlights in a festival that will host 4 world premières, 8 premières in Spain and 9 in the Community of Madrid.

To report on the realities of the Spanish-speaking part of the continent, authors such as Marina Otero, David Gaitán, Lola Arias and Vicky Araico and companies like Teatro Petra will be present with a historical production, Labio de liebre (The Lip of the Hare), as well as Teatrocinema with the spectacular Historia de Amor (Love Story).

A third of the programme is aimed at a young audience, with urban dance shows, such as DUB by Amala Dianor, the Odyssey immersive experience, in which the mobile phone becomes an interactive stage tool, and Macbeth Muet by the Canadian company, La Fille Du Laitier.

This latest edition is directed by Marcela Diez from Mexico and devotes more than half of the programme to the best of the Spanish and Latin American scene with productions and co-productions that address issues like disappearances in Mexico, attacks against women and political violence.

2024 Edition

The 2024 edition of the Community of Madrid Autumn Festival, directed by the producer and artistic distributor, Pilar de Yzaguirre, to whom it was devoted as the festival’s first director, closed with the best viewing figures in the past four years, with 18,014 spectators, representing almost 90% of the capacity (88.6%). Nineteen of the 62 scheduled performances were sold out, with 39 of them exceeding 90% of the capacity.

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