BARTS, Performance venue and movie theater in El Raval, Barcelona, Spain.
BARTS is a theater and cinema venue in El Raval, Barcelona, with a main room that can seat around 900 people or hold around 1,500 standing. Two additional screening rooms of different sizes allow the venue to run theater, concerts, and film screenings at the same time.
The building stands on the site of the Gran Teatro Español, which opened in 1909 and originally hosted French vaudeville and operetta. It later became Studio 54, a nightclub, before taking on its current shape as a mixed-use cultural space.
BARTS stands for Barcelona Arts on Stage, the name taken in 2012 when TheProject began managing the hall. The venue opened under that name after the 2010 reopening as Artèria Paral·lel, inaugurated with a revival of Dagoll Dagom's musical Nit de Sant Joan with music by Jaume Sisa. The building also kept part of the old Gran Teatro Español facade.
The venue sits on Avenida del Paral·lel and is within walking distance of the Paral·lel metro station. The surrounding area of El Raval has plenty of bars and restaurants that make it easy to plan a visit around an event.
The room kept its original auditorium structure when it became the Studio 54 nightclub, modelled on the New York club of the same name by owner Matías Colsada. It closed in 1997 after just over a decade. The stage later reopened in 2010 with a revival of Dagoll Dagom's musical Nit de Sant Joan, with music by Jaume Sisa.
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