Teatro Oficina | |
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General information | |
Location | São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil |
Coordinates | 23°33′18″S 46°38′28.52″W / 23.55500°S 46.6412556°W |
Construction started | 1958 |
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Teat(r)o Oficina Uzyna Uzona or simply Teatro Oficina (English: Oficina Theater), is a theater company based in the neighborhood of Bixiga, in the Brazilian city of São Paulo. It was founded in 1958 at the Law School of the University of São Paulo by Amir Haddad, José Celso Martinez Correa, Carlos Queiroz Telles and Ron Daniels.[1][2][3]
In 1966, the company's headquarters was destroyed by a fire. Remounts of plays were staged to raise funds and restore the building. Teatro Oficina is currently run by Marcelo Drummond, widower of Zé Celso, who died in 2023.[4][2][5]
The current building was designed in 1984 by Lina Bo Bardi and Edson Elito and inaugurated in 1994. In 2015, it was chosen by The Guardian as the best theater in the world in the architectural design category. Since the 1980s, Teatro Oficina has been involved in a dispute with Grupo Silvio Santos, which intends to build residential towers on the land next to the venue.[6][7][2]