From the owner: Organismo stabile di produzione teatrale fondato nel 1972 - Diretto da Andrée Ruth Shammah.read more

American tourists should avoid this place, unless you go and get your green pass and have and…read morevaccination card. We just got kicked out after purchasing our tickets because I am not vaccinated. I am flying back home today so I have negative covid test results from today that I provided, regardless we were still denied. It was a very negative experienced getting kicked out over something so silly and illogical. I would imagine this is how the jews felt during Nazi Germany. No papers no access. I felt sad today for my Italian brothers and sisters oppressed by their government. Luckily after a lot of back and forth we managed to get a refund.

Piccolo Teatro Grassi is one of the three theaters operated by The Piccolo Teatro della Citta di…read moreMilano (The Little Theatre of the City of Milan). It is named for Paolo Grassi, one of the theater's founders. I wasn't able to attend a performance in the theatre, but did attend a performance for children, in the building courtyard. The actors and staging were wonderful, and the children laughed uproariously. Five Stars. As an aside: There is a very sobering plaque on the outside wall of Piccolo Teatro Grassi, that roughly translates from Italian: "HERE BETWEEN September 8, 1943 April 25, 1945 AND NOW HAVE FOUND THE TORTURE AND DEATH HUNDREDS OF FREEDOM FIGHTERS OF PRISONERS OF FASCISTI LITTLE THEATRE HAS MADE THIS EDIFICIOUN CENTER AND A SYMBOL OF REBIRTH OF CULTURAL AND DEMOCRATIC LIFE OF MILAN" Thank You, Google Translate!, and Thank You, Piccolo Teatro della Citta di Milano.

From the owner: Attivo a Niguarda dal 2001, il Teatro della Cooperativa ha avviato un progetto di riqualificazione…read moreculturale della periferia attraverso lo sviluppo di un centro di produzione e promozione teatrale che, radicatosi nel tessuto sociale niguardese - periferia nord est di Milano -, offra un punto di riferimento per la città e la provincia. Convinti che il teatro possa e debba avere una funzione sociale, come spazio in cui una comunità possa ancora riconoscersi e condividere un'esperienza unica e viva, le attività del Teatro della Cooperativa si sono caratterizzate fin da subito per l'attenzione a temi quali il recupero della memoria storica e la valorizzazione della multiculturalità che contraddistingue oggi la periferia milanese.