The best plays currently showing in São Paulo for you to watch in March!

In this immersive theater experience, the audience stops being spectators and takes on the role of a jury in an American courtroom. For 60 minutes, you will analyze real evidence and testimonies to decide the defendant’s fate. With intense performances and a realistic setting, the play challenges your logic and perception in an environment of pure tension.

Acclaimed in London, Brokeback Mountain gets its second official staging in the world and premieres in São Paulo. Directed by Moacyr Góes, the show adapts the Oscar-winning classic for the Brazilian stage, narrating the intense and silent love between two cowboys in the American countryside in the 1960s. With a live soundtrack and sensitive performances, the play offers a powerful reflection on affection, repression, intolerance, and courage.

Dancer Wilson Aguiar celebrates 40 years of career in a solo performance that mixes dance, theater, and autobiography. At 66, he revisits his journey from the suburbs to the big stages, treating the body as a living archive of memories and resistance.

A hit with audiences, the play is back for another season in São Paulo. It narrates a fictional encounter between the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and writer C.S. Lewis. At the height of World War II, the intellectuals debate with humor and sarcasm topics such as the existence of God, sex, and the meaning of life, promoting a tribute to dialogue in times of polarization.

Celebrating 25 years of Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos, the show combines personal memories and a fictional São Paulo where rivers overflow. Through hip-hop theater, the group addresses issues such as racism and intolerance, creating a necessary contemporary narrative in the city center.

The São Paulo International Theater Festival brings an unprecedented glimpse of theatrical production in the Brazilian Midwest. With shows ranging from the realism of “Atrás das Paredes” to the environmental performance of “Galhada, “ the program gives us the opportunity to experience the theatrical diversity of the region.

Playwright Luciana Lyra reinterprets the Greek myth from the perspective of gender violence in Latin America. Inspired by the warriors of Tejucupapo, the play transforms the classic tragedy into a poetic-political riot about the resurgence of female power.

The Labirinto Collective draws on the culture of the Rarámuri indigenous people, known for running long distances, to create a metaphor for the daily “rush” in Latin America. The play discusses Latin identity and our perception of time through running, seen here as a collective way of existing and sharing life.

Using the language of shadow theater and cubist aesthetics, Cia. Lumiato draws inspiration from the colonization of America to narrate the encounter between two opposing cultures. Without the use of words, the show creates an immersive environment of extreme poetry that invites the audience to experience the play of light and shadow up close.

Directed by Nelson Baskerville, this dystopian production by Nelson Rodrigues reflects on Brazilian hypocrisy and the rise of the extreme right. In a setting of rubber and mud, the moral dilemma of the protagonist Edgard exposes the ethical abysses of a society corrupted by power and appearances. Show for ages 18 and up.

The renowned company from Maranhão celebrates its 20th anniversary with four shows inspired by literary geniuses such as Kafka and Fernando Pessoa. The plays, such as “Pai & Filho” (Father & Son) and “Ensaio sobre a memória” (Essay on Memory), discuss power, memory, and the restlessness of human life.