Venue: Teatro São Pedro
Town: São Paulo, BR

Teatro São Pedro (English: São Pedro Theater) is located in São Paulo, Brazil. It was created by the Portuguese Manuel Fernandes Lopes and inaugurated on January 20, 1917 with the performances of the plays A Moreninha and O Escravo de Lúcifer. It is the second oldest operating theater in São Paulo. The theater was inaugurated on January 20, 1917, four days later than expected due to an embargo by São Paulo City Hall. It is the second oldest theater in the city; the first is the Municipal Theater, which opened in 1911. Before its official inauguration, the venue was revered as an outstanding luxury center for entertainment and arts. It featured a neoclassical style with art nouveau inspiration, 28 front rows, 28 boxes and balconies with more than 100 seats. After the 1920s, the theater functioned as a movie theater, offering occasional theatrical performances. In 1941, it closed and became exclusively part of the commercial circuit of cinemas owned by Empresas Reunidas, Metro G.M. and Serrador. In the 1960s, the auditorium was used as a storage area and parking lot. In 1967, threatened with demolition, the São Pedro Theater was acquired by Fernando Torres, Fernanda Montenegro, Beatriz and Maurício Segall. After undergoing a renovation that involved the construction of 9 dressing rooms and toilets, the theater reopened on October 29, 1968. In the following years, the productions focused on creating new theatrical expressions to confront Institutional Act Number Five, a law imposed by the Costa e Silva government that increased censorship in Brazil. Several plays and musicals performed on the São Pedro stage, such as: Marta Saré, by Gianfrancesco Guarnieri and Edu Lobo, Morte e Vida Severina, by João Cabral de Melo Neto and Chico Buarque, Hair, by James Rado, Macunaima, by Mário de Andrade, Ópera do Malandro, by Chico Buarque, and Calabar, by Chico Buarque and Rui Guerra (which premiered at São Pedro in 1980 after 7 years of censorship). Isaac Karabtchevsky, João Carlo