Opera Buffa & Workshop: Stories in a Box at the Athenaeum Center

2:30pm CT / Opera Buffa

3:30pm CT / Workshop: Stories in a Box

Athenaeum Center | 2936 N Southport Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Free event with reservation

With over forty years of history, experience and tradition, Teatro Verde is an irreplaceable reference for children, schools and families in Rome. The Company’s engaging and colorful performances feature actors, puppets, juggling, and music. Teatro Verde’s puppet making workshops, readings and outdoor performances turn the theatrical experience into an encounter, made of creativity and communication. 

“Opera Buffa”: Italian Opera, puppet theater and mimes in a dynamic and ever changing set. Two porters taking a break from work listen to music and play with their carton boxes, and the surprises they contain. Opera Buffa is a carousel of characters, puppets, stories and arias, with a growing and exciting rhythm. Tickets

Workshop “Stories in a Box”: Learn with Teatro Verde how to create your own puppet with everyday materials or from your own shoe box. Create a little theater, a world of stories and wonders! Workshops are open to children of all ages. Workshop Registration

Teatro Verde is a theater entirely dedicated to kids and youth since 1986, which became an irreplaceable reference for children, teens, schools and families in Rome. The proposed performances always involve the participation of the public and use a mix of techniques—actors, puppets, juggling, shadows, projections. They often deal with social issues and prioritize music, colors and emotions. Teatro Verde also offers theater laboratories—for adults, children, and people with disabilities—parties, performed readings, outdoor performances; they produce books and videos, host exhibitions, organize festivals and other activities dedicated to kids. Theater is encounter. Theater is relationships. Theater is dialogue. Theater is a language, and as such is best to learn it from a young age.