Focus celebrates 40 years with a record audience and a season marked by great returns

BarcelonaFocus reaches 40 years in a golden moment. Last season, the four theaters of the Focus Group, the Romea, the Condal, La Villarroel and the Goya, reached a record figure in attendance (534,000 spectators) and revenue (14.7 million euros). 68 shows were presented there, with 1,402 performances held. "There have already been five years of good fortune and on this journey, from record to record, today we have added a new challenge that forces us not to lose our stride, maintain the pace and reach next August with the satisfaction of a job well done," said the group's president, Daniel Martínez, this Friday. "In moments of peak social and political discontent, culture and, especially, theater, offers us moments of emotional rationality and intelligent entertainment, which allow us to take a breath to endure all this series of existential crises that make up our day-to-day life," added Martínez.

The 2026/27 theatrical season draws attention for the large number of revivals that can be seen, often due to the success the productions had. At the Goya, it will be the fourth consecutive season that the Lorquian monologue performed by Lolita Poncia(until September 27). Later on, the third season of A Father-in-law for Rent(from December 17 to January 10), starring Joan Pera, will arrive; as well as the second season of the comedy of errors Una idea genial, with Lluís Villanueva (from February 18 to March 14).

Leonardo Sbaraglia in Barcelona

Also at the Goya, they are programming the adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic The Grand Inquisitor (from October 1st to 11th), with Lluís Homar and the musician duo Brugalla & Stambolov; Los días perfectos, an intimate look at couple relationships starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (from April 1st to 18th), and The Daughters (from April 23rd to May 23rd), a tragicomedy directed by Jordi Casanovas about three sisters, played by Maria Molins, Rosa Boladeras, and Anna Sahun.

At the Teatre Romea, the season has begun with José Sacristán's monologue in homage to Fernando Fernán-Gómez, The Comedian's Son (until October 4th), and will continue with the return of La Zaranda with the show All the Angels Took Flight (from October 15th to 25th), and Dog's Word, the stage adaptation that playwright Juan Mayorga has made of The Dialogue of the Dogs, by Cervantes (from October 28th to November 8th). Later on, Josep Maria Flotats will return to the Romea with Promise at Dawn (from November 14th to December 6th), a theatrical version of Romain Gary's autobiography. And in December, one of the great hits from the last edition of the Grec will return, The Picture of Dorian Gray(from December 17th to January 17th). Another novelty will be The Loot, an irreverent comedy about corruption headlined by Pere Arquillué (from January 23rd to February 21st), while Josep Maria Pou will perform for the last time the protagonist of Giant (from March 25th to April 25th).

The play that will open the season at the Condal is the Spanish version of the comedy 53 Sundays, by Cesc Gay, starring Julián López, Pepa Charro, Xavi Mira, and Candela Serrat (from September 9th to 27th). One of the highlights of the season will be Good and Bad (from October 6th to November 1st), a play written by and starring Joel Joan, "about friendships, hypocrisy, and personal crises." And, after the success achieved this year, the great musical Blood Brothers (from February 12th to March 14th).

In the La Villarroel schedule, Newton's First Law, by Eu Manzanares, stands out, which was one of the great successes of the last Grec (until October 4). Pau Roca will direct Morning sun, a story of mothers and daughters with Anna Güell, Míriam Iscla, and Raquel Ferri (from October 9 to November 8). And Pau Carrió will take charge of The Nest, the Pulitzer Prize-winning text about the void left by the death of a child (from November 28 to January 10); the cast is made up of Mercè Aránega, Laura Aubert, Pep Ambrós, Júlia Molins, and Jan Gavilán.

Later on, also at La Villarroel, Anna Moliner and Joan Negrié will resume the love story of the successful You say tomato with I say potato. They can be seen, respectively, from February 20 to March 13 and from February 17 to March 14, 2027. The schedule also includes Dissection of Kindness in Three Acts, by Titzina Teatro, a show about fraud that mixes theater and illusionism (from March 18 to 28). In the spring, A Common Place will arrive, the play by Joan Yago directed by Joan Arqué where five women discover that the same man deceived them (from May 7 to June 6); the protagonists are Rosa Gàmiz, Victòria Pagès, Sandra Monclús, Tamara Ndong, and Laura Aubert. And the season will end with two more revivals: the successful Radio Women (from April 2 to May 2) and The Children, the success starring Emma Vilarasau, Jordi Boixaderas, and Mercè Aránega (from July 1 to August 1).