Teatro Dehon, theatre in Bologna, Italy

Teatro Dehon is a modern theater building in Bologna with seating for around 500 people, designed to host different types of performances. The building includes multiple dressing rooms, a bar, and facilities that serve both performers and audience members.

The whole complex, including the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio above it, was built in the 1950s to designs by engineers Italo Gasperi Campani and Rodolfo Bettazzi, with architect Umberto Spagnoli and others. It opened as a parish cinema-theatre run by the Dehonian fathers. In the late 1970s falling audiences and neighbourhood depopulation led the parish to hand it to theatre companies; Teatroaperto renovated it in 1986.

The venue serves as a gathering place where locals and visitors experience different types of theatrical performances throughout the year. Its programming reflects what matters to the community and shows the range of stories told on its stage.

The theatre sits in the Cirenaica district, at the corner of Via Libia and Via Sante Vincenzi, in the space beneath the church of Santa Maria del Suffragio. The season usually opens in late September, when the main Bologna theatres are still closed, and runs into May.

The stage measures 22.60 metres wide and 7.54 metres deep, with a proscenium 10 metres wide and 5.15 metres high. The theatre opens at the end of September, when Bologna's main theatres are still closed, and runs until late May.