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

BarcelonaFocus reaches 40 years old at a golden moment. Last season, the four theaters of the Focus Group, Romea, Condal, La Villarroel, and Goya, reached record figures for audience (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 step, maintain the rhythm, 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 this whole series of existential crises that make up our day-to-day life," added Martínez.

The 2026/27 theater season draws attention for the large number of revivals that will 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; and the second of the comedy of errors A brilliant idea, with Lluís Villanueva (from February 18 to March 14).

Leonardo Sbaraglia in Barcelona

The adaptation of Dostoevsky's classic is also scheduled at the Goya The Grand Inquisitor (from October 1st to 11th), with Lluís Homar and the musician duo Brugalla & Stambolov; Perfect days, an intimate look at couple relationships starring Leonardo Sbaraglia (from April 1 to April 18, 2018), and The girls (from April 23 to May 23), a tragicomedy directed by Jordi Casanovas about three sisters, played by Maria Molins, Rosa Boladeras, and Anna Sahun.

At the Romea Theatre the season has started with José Sacristán's monologue in tribute 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 the playwright Juan Mayorga has made of The Colloquy of the Dogs, by Cervantes (from October 28th to November 8th). Later on, Josep Maria Flotats will return to the Romea with The promise of the dawn (from November 14 to December 6), 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 one of the novelties will be The loot, an irreverent comedy about corruption led 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 Condal season 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 6 to November 1), a play written by and starring Joel Joan, "about friendships, hypocrisy, and personal crises". And, after the success achieved this year, it will return in February 2027 the great musical Blood Brothers (from February 12th to March 14th).

In the La Villarroel program, Newton's first law, by Eu Manzanares, stands out, which was one of the great successes of the last Grec (until October 4th). Pau Roca will direct Morning sun, a story of mothers and daughters with Anna Güell, Míriam Iscla, and Raquel Ferri (from October 9th to November 8th). And Pau Carrió will head The nest, the Pulitzer Prize-winning text about the void left by the death of a child (from November 28th to January 10th); the cast consists of Mercè Arànega, 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 20th to March 13th and from February 17th to March 14th, 2027. The program also includes Dissection of kindness in three acts, by Titzina Teatro, a show about fraud that mixes theater and illusionism (from March 18th to 28th). In the spring, A common place will arrive, the play by Joan Yago directed by Joan Arqué where five women discover they were deceived by the same man (from May 7th to June 6th); 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 2nd to May 2nd) and The children, the hit starring Emma Vilarasau, Jordi Boixaderas, and Mercè Aránega (from July 1st to August 1st).