Teatro Oficina

Teatro Oficina
Teatro Oficina headquarters.
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General information
LocationSão Paulo, São Paulo
 Brazil
Coordinates23°33′18″S 46°38′28.52″W / 23.55500°S 46.6412556°W / -23.55500; -46.6412556
Construction started1958; 66 years ago (1958)
Website
www.teatroficina.com.br

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]

  1. ^ Kevin Kelly (3 January 1993). "ART makes Daniels second in command". The Boston Globe). Archived from the original on 12 March 2017. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c Norte, Diego (2023-07-06). "Criado por Zé Celso, entenda o que é o Teatro Oficina, "o melhor do mundo"". CNN. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  3. ^ Martin, Dolores Moyano; Mundell, P. Sue (1999). Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 56: Humanities. University of Texas Press. p. 654. ISBN 978-0-292-75231-3. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
  4. ^ "Teatro Oficina Uzyna Uzona". ItaúCultural. 2021-09-09. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
  5. ^ Monterastelli, Alessandra (2023-07-06). "'Zé Celso era vida', afirma Marcelo Drummond, que assumirá o Teatro Oficina". Folha de S. Paulo. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  6. ^ Baratto, Romullo (2015-12-15). "Projeto do Teatro Oficina de Lina Bo Bardi é eleito o melhor do mundo pelo The Guardian". ArchDaily. Retrieved 2024-02-20.
  7. ^ Maia, Maria Carolina (2017-11-29). "Teatro Oficina: the tycoon v the theatre". The Guardian. Retrieved 2024-02-20.