Malliaropouleio municipal theater, Theater in Tripoli, Greece

Malliaropouleio Municipal Theater is a listed neoclassical building on Petrinou Square in Tripoli, Arcadia, measuring 32 m long and 13 m wide, with a 17.5 m entrance section. Its rectangular auditorium held 132 seats on the ground floor and 8 in the balcony, plus two boxes for the donor and the mayor. The stage is 11 m wide, with a proscenium opening of 7.5 by 5 m.

In 1903 the architect Anastasios Metaxas delivered the plans, and contractor K. Thomas was to finish the building within ten months. It was founded in 1905 on the site of the Kapodistrian School, whose founding inscription was recovered, and opened on 7 February 1910. The benefactor Ioannis Malliaropoulos, a physician, covered costs exceeding 90,000 drachmas.

The theatre opened on 7 February 1910 with Pavlos Gkavos's 'Miss Chocolate', performed by the Greek Dramatic Troupe of Rosalia Nika and Eftychios Vonaseras. Marika Kotopouli, Katina Paxinou and Alexis Minotis later appeared on its stage, and the building also hosted musical evenings.

The building stands on Petrinou Square, on a plot of about three stremmata; the entrance front widens to 17.50 m while the rest of the 32 m length is 13 m wide. The foyer and the former refreshment room are reached from the entrance hall, and the auditorium has doors on both sides. The theater was restored from 1977 onward and is used by the Tripoli Theater Group and the Center for Artistic Action.

The stage opening measures 7.5 by 5 metres and the stage is 11 metres wide, dimensions the sources call excessive for a small municipal theatre. Behind it were eight dressing rooms on three levels, reached by two spiral staircases joined by a small balcony on the second floor.