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THEATRE AND DANCE

Urtain
The always intriguing Spanish theatre group Animalario performs Juan Cavestany’s play about mythical Basque boxer José Manuel Ibar Aspiazu who committed suicide at the age of 49. Cavestany uses the play to explore the Spanish political and social scene in the dying years of the Franco regime.

Until 2 November

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30pm. Sunday, 7:30pm
Price: EUR 15

Teatro Valle-Inclan
Plaza de Lavapies
28004
91.505.88.00
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Grease
The lives, loves and low-riders of 1950s teenage America in the musical stage version of the 1978 hit film which starred John Travolta and Oliva Newton-John.

Opens 30 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 6pm and 10:30pm. Sunday, 6pm
Price:  EUR 22-58

Nuevo Teatro Alcala
Jorge Juan, 62
28009
91.426.47.49
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Boris Godunov
Catalan avant-garde drama group La Fura dels Baus uses the 2002 Chechen terrorist assault on a Moscow theatre as a simile for Pushkin’s work about the murderous tsar. 

Until 19 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30pm. Sunday, 7:30pm
Price: EUR 9-18

Teatro María Guerrrero
Tamayo y Baus, 4
28004
91.310.15.00
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En la Cama
María Esteve and Roberto Sanmartín star as a couple who meet at a party and then check into a hotel for a night which could change their lives. Based on the acclaimed film by Chilean director Matías Bizé.

Until 9 November

Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 7pm and 10pm. Sunday, 6:30pm
Price: EUR 12-25

Teatro Lara
Corredera Baja de San Pablo, 15
28004
91.523.90.27 
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Sonato de Otoño
An adapted stage version of Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s film Autumn Sonata about a pianist confronted by her long-neglected daughter. Almodovar favourite Marisa Paredes stars.

Until 26 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 8:30. Saturday, 7:30pm and 10:30pm. Sunday, 7pm
Price: EUR 16-25

Círculo de Bellas Artes
Marqués de Casa Riera, 2
28014
91.360.54.00
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Mentiras, Incienso y Mirra
Movie director and screenwriter Juan Luis Iborra tries his hand at playwriting and directing for the stage with this tale of six old friends gathering, as they have over the years, to celebrate King’s Night and recover the sentiments and feelings which first brought them together.

Opens 10 September

Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm and 10:30pm. Sunday, 7 pm
Price: EUR 10-25

La Latina
Plaza de la Cebada, 2
28005
91.365.28.35
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Esperando al Señor S
Actor Carlos Ballesteros wrote and directs this surrealistic work derived from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and featuring a pair of vagabond philosophers reminiscent of every well-loved comedy team from Laurel and Hardy to Tip y Coll.

Until 5 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 8:30pm. Sunday, 7pm
Price: EUR 12-16

Teatro Español
Príncipe, 25
28012
91.360.14.84
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Los 39 Escalones (The 39 Steps)
Eduardo Bazo directs this comic version of the early Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic with a stellar cast including Gabino Diego, Patricia Conde and Jorge de Juan.

Opens 27 August

Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, 8pm. Friday and Saturday, 8pm and 10:30pm. Sunday, 7pm
Price:  EUR 18-20

Teatro Maravillas
Manuela Malasaña, 6
28004
91.446.84.00
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Los Balcones de Madrid
El Teatro de Camara Chejov opens its new season with the comedy by Tirso de Molina about three suitors competing for the same woman, an ambitious and hypocritical father and other tales of 17th century Madrid.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Friday and Saturday, 8:30pm. Sunday, 7:30pm
Price: EUR 14

Teatro Camara Chejov
San Cosme y San Damian, 3
28012
91.527.09.54
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Las Troyanas (The Trojan Women)
Gloria Muñoz stars in the Euripides Greek tragedy directed by Mario Gas which debuted this year at the Merida Theatre Festival before its successful national tour.
Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 9pm
Price: EUR 16.50 – 22

Matadero Madrid
Paseo de la Chopera, 10
28045
91.517.73.09
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La Bella y La Bestia (The Beauty and the Beast)
Disney’s lavish Spanish stage production of the classic fairytale (and hit film) which has been thrilling children of all ages around the world. 

Opens 4 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 6pm and 10pm. Sunday, 6pm.
Price: EUR 25-65

Coliseum
Gran Vía, 78
91.547.66.12
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El Diario de Ana Frank
The controversial musical about the Jewish girl and her family hiding out from the Nazis in a friend’s attic in Amsterdam.

Indefinite

Schedule: Wednesday and Thursday, 8:30pm. Friday and Saturday, 6pm and 10pm. Sunday, 7pm
Price: EUR 23-50

Teatro Haagen-Dazs
Atocha, 18
28012
91.420.37.97


CINEMA

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
In this film adaptation of John Boyne’s bestseller, the son of a Nazi concentration camp commandant befriends a Jewish boy prisoner.

Opens 26 September

Starring: Asa Butterfield, David Thewlis and Jack Scalon
Directed by Mark Herman
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Los Ojos de Ariana
A Spanish documentary about how the employees of Afghanistan’s National Film Institute hid and protected the country’s cinema archives from the ruling Taliban who set out to destroy all film and television programmes as un-Islamic.

Opens 26 September

Directed by Ricardo Macián and Carlos Muguiro
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Woody Allen’s latest about a pair of young American women who become involved with a Barcelona artist and his ex-wife. US critics have hailed it as the director’s return to greatness.

Opens 19 September

Starring: Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz
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Cuatro Vidas (The Air I Breathe)
A drama following wrenching events in the lives of four people and based on a Chinese proverb which breaks down life into four emotional states: happiness, pleasure, love and sorrow.

Opens 19 September

Directed by Jieho Lee
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Julie Delpy and Brendan Fraser
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Wanted (Se Busca)
James McAvoy plays a trained assassin out to avenge his father. Based on the comics by Mark Millar and co-starring Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.

Opens 12 September

Directed by Timur Bekmambetov
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Un Verano en la Prozenca (Le Fils de Lépicier)
A nostalgic comedy about a how a young man’s life changes while working as a travelling salesman in the villages of southern France.

Opens 12 September

Directed by Eric Guirado
Starring: Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme and Daniel Duval
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Che, El Argentino (The Argentine)
Director Steven Soderbergh’s take on the early life of the future Latin American revolutionary hero and t-shirt icon played by Benicio del Toro

Opens 5 September

Starring: Victor Rasuk, Armando Riesco, Catalina Sandino
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3:10 to Yuma
Praised by some critics as the best Western since Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, this remake of the 1957 Glenn Ford vehicle was also lauded for Russell Crowe’s portrayal of the outlaw protagonist.

Opens 5 September

Directed by James Mangold
Starring: Christian Bale, Logan Lerman and Peter Fonda
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Gifted Mexican director/writer/producer Guillermo del Toro returns with another tale of the good-hearted demon who fights the forces of darkness. This time the foes are mythical beings gathering to vanquish the human race and rule the world.

Opens 29 August

Starring: Ron Perlman, Selma Blair and Doug Jones
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Los Girasoles Ciegos
In post-war Spain, a former soldier gets a job as a teacher in Oviedo where he falls for the mother of one of his students. His obsession opens up dark secrets in the lives of all.

Opens 29 August

Directed by Jose Luis Cuerda
Starring: Maribel Verdu, Javier Camara and Raul Arevalo
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Virgin Territory
A comedy based on Boccacio’s Decameron and set during the time of the Black Death about the romantic shenanigans of a group of young Florentines.

Opens 8 August

Directed by David Leland
Starring: Hayden Christensen, Misha Barton and Tim Roth  
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Mamma Mia!
Film version of the long-running musical about a girl living on a Greek island whose three possible fathers show up to attend her wedding. The plot is moved along by the cast singing virtually every hit by those kings and queens of schmaltz, Abba.

Opens 8 August

Directed by Phyllida Lloyd
Starring: Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth
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Peregrinos (Saint Jacques…La Mecque)
A French road movie about three brothers who detest one another setting off on the Camino de Santiago pilgrim trail along with six other people in search of an inheritance.

Opens 8 August

Directed by Coline Serreau
Starring: Marie Bunel and Jean-Pierre Darroussine
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Taken (Venganza)
A retired intelligence officer dusts off his old skills to search for his estranged daughter who has been sold into slavery in Paris.

Opens 8 August

Directed by: Pierre Morel
Starring: Liam Neesom, Maggie Grace and Famke Jannsen
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Wall-E
Disney and Pixel’s latest animation blockbuster aimed at both adults and children takes place in the distant future when a garbage-cleaning robot sets out to save Mother Earth and his girlfriend from the fiendish Buy N Large corporation.

Opens 1 August

Directed by Andrew Stanton
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Prométeme (Zavet)
Serbian writer/director/bandleader Emir Kusturica’s comedy about a man who sends his son to the big city to sell the family cow and come back with a wife.

Opens 11 July

Starring: Uros Milovanovic and Alexsandar Bercek
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Soom (Breath)
On learning that her husband is having an affair, a housewife takes up with a prisoner in this film by South Korean surrealist director Kim  Ki-duk.

Opens 4 July

Starring: Chang Chen, Ha Jung Woo and Lee Jo-seok
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Emotional Arithmetic
Three survivors of the Holocaust renew their relationship forged in the horrors of the death camps when they get together decades later at a country house in Canada.

Opens 6 June

Directed by Paolo Barzman
Starring: Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne and Max von Sydow

MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITIONS

Explorando el Sur
A retrospective of 20th art from Latin America with more than 100 drawings, paintings and sculptures by Botero, Wilfredo Lam, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Francisco Matto, Roberto Matta and others.

Until 9 November

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 10am-8:30pm. Saturday, 11am-2pm and 5:30pm-8:30pm
Price :Free

Fundación Carlos de Amberes
Claudio Coello, 99
28006
91.435.22.01
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Lenguajes de Papel
Abstract art, pop art and expressionism are just three of the movements represented in this display of avant-garde art from the extensive private collection of Pilar Citoler. Includes works by Picasso, Miró, Warhol, Bacon, Saura, Calder, Le Corbusier, Barceló, Tapies and many others.

Until 16 November

Schedule: Tuesday through Saturday, 11am-2pm and 5pm-8:30pm. Sunday, 11am-2pm
Price: EUR 1

Círculo de Bellas Artes
Marqués de Casa Riera, 2
28013
91.360.54.00
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Colecccionar el Mundo
Photographs purchased this year by the Fundación Mapfre for its permanent collection by leading American photographers Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Harry Callahan, Lee Friedlander, Helen Levitt and Gary Winogrand.

Until 4 January

Schedule: Monday, 2pm-9pm. Wednesday through Saturday, 10am-9pm. Sunday, 12 noon-8pm.
Price:  Free

Fundación Mapfre Vida
Avda. General Perón, 40
28020
91.581.16.28
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Happy End. Diez Projectos de Diseño
Furniture by the iconic 20th century American designers Charles and Ray Eames are among the ten items presented here showing how design projects progress from the initial idea to the finished product.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 5pm-9pm. Saturday, 11am-2pm and 5pm-9pm. Sunday, 11am-2pm
Price: EUR 1

Círculo de Bellas Artes
Marqués de Casa Riera, 2
28013
91.360.54.00
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Cy Twombly: Lepanto
This rare display by the Prado of contemporary art showcases a series of paintings by the American abstract artist depicting the key 16th century naval battle of Lepanto when Europe’s Christian powers turned back the expansionist Ottoman Turks.

Until 28 September

Schedule: Tuesday through Sunday, 9am-8pm.
Price: EUR 6

Museo Nacional del Prado
Paseo del Prado
28014
91.330.28.00
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Maquinas y Almas: Arte Digital and Nuevos Medios
Interactive portraits, digital paintings and robots are just a few of the works on display at this exhibition of 17 cutting-edge artists exploring the interface between art, science and technology.

Until 13 October

Schedule: Monday and Wednesday to Saturday, 10am-9pm. Sunday, 10am-2:30pm
Price: EUR 6

Reina Sofia National Art Centre
Santa Isabel, 52
91.774.10.00
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Chaplin en Imagenes
Three hundred photographs, posters, documents and film clips illustrating the life and the career of the much-beloved Little Tramp.

Until 19 October

Schedule: Daily, 10am-8pm
Price: Free

CaixaForum
Paseo del Prado, 36
28014
91.330.73.00
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Madrid 1808. Guerra y Territorio
Another look at the Spanish War of Independence as the country marks its 200 anniversary; this time with maps, notes, battle plans and other historical documents from the conflict. 

Until 19 October

Schedule: Tuesday through Friday, 9:30am-8pm. Saturday and Sunday, 10am-2pm
Price: Free

Museo de Historia,
Fuencarral, 78
28004
91.701.18.63
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Un Pueblo, Una Nación
Another exhibit marking the bicentennial of the Madrid uprising against the French, this one is a virtual recreation of the events of May 2, 1808 until the following day. 

Until 28 September

Schedule: Daily, 10am-9pm
Price: EUR 6 

Centro de Arte Canal
Paseo de la Castellana, 214
28036
91.545.15.13
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Sunken Treasures of Egypt

CONCERTS

CHILDREN’S EVENTS

Reina Sofia Museum Children’s Activities
This year’s free Sunday programme at the modern art centre focuses on sculpture with visits to the museum’s major works, hands-on workshops for participants and a puppet show featuring characters based on the sculptures.
Recommended for children over six years of age.

Until 31 May 2009

Schedule: 12 noon
Price: Free

Reina Sofia National Art Centre
Santa Isabel, 52
28014
91.774.10.00
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Parque de Atracciones de Madrid
The city’s historic amusement park has added several new rides for the season and there are plenty of attractions for all ages from the latest monster roller coasters for the brave of heart to an antique merry-go-round for the smaller set. Easily accessible by metro at the Batan stop on Line 4.  

Schedule: April: Friday, 12 noon-8pm, Saturday, 12 noon-10pm, Sunday, 12 noon-9pm. May: Tuesday through Sunday, 12 noon-9pm. June, July and August: Daily from 12 noon until late. 

Price: Adults, EUR 8.20-26. Children 3 to7, EUR 8.20-16. Under 3 free. 

Casa de Campo
91.463.2900
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Madrid Snowzone
Spain’s biggest indoor snow sports complex has added a special area for the younger set for tubing, plus intensive courses in those wanting to learn snowboarding.

Schedule: Daily, 10am-midnight
Price: EUR 10 per hour

Madrid Snowzone
Centro Comercial Xanadu
Autovia A-V, exit 23.5
28939
Arroyomolinos
902 26 30 26
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Pandamonium!
They’re here! After more than ten years of negotiations with the Chinese government, pandas Bing Xing (male) and Hua Zui Ba (female) have arrived at the Madrid Zoo for a lengthy stay during which it is hoped they’ll mate and multiply.

Schedule: Weekdays and weekends, 11am-6pm
Price: Adults, EUR 15.90. Children 3-7, EUR 12.90

Zoo Aquarium de Madrid
Casa de Campo
91.512.37.70
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Safari Park
The present fine weather is perfect for a day trip here where lions, zebras, giraffes, etc. lounge among the scrub oak eying the visitors driving by in their cars. But take care around the monkeys who are known to nick windscreen wipers.

Schedule: Daily, 10:30am-7:30am
Price: Adults, EUR 12. Children, EUR 8

Safari Park
Ctra. de Extremadura, M-507, Km. 22. Access by the N-V, exit 32 at Navalcarnero, Aldea del Fresno
91.862.23.14
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Parque Warner
Bugs, Daffy, Yogi Bear and all the gang are back for another season at Madrid’s biggest theme park with rides and attractions galore.

Schedule: Weekends and holidays, 11am-10pm in March. Friday-Sunday in April and May.
Price: Adults, EUR 17-35, Children 5-10, EUR 13-26.50
Children under 5, free
For further schedule and price information, see: www.parquewarner.com

Parque Warner
M-506, Exit 22 from N-IV (Carretera de Andalucia)
28330
San Martin de la Vega
902.024.100