Teatro Mediterraneo, Performance theatre in Fuorigrotta district, Naples, Italy

Teatro Mediterraneo is a theatre in the Fuorigrotta district of Naples, part of the Mostra d'Oltremare complex. Its travertine facade has a neoclassical loggia of fourteen white stucco columns with gilded capitals, and an imposing fresco by Chiancone and Barillà. The building, with the Palazzo dell'Arte, forms a T-shaped plan. The auditorium seats 820 (originally 1,200) and has a 105 m² stage with a circular revolving platform 13.50 m in diameter and a 12 x 6.5 m screen.

Inaugurated on 9 May 1940 in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III, the theatre opened with Silvio D'Amico's Accademia company performing Metastasio's Attilio Regolo. It was destroyed by the 1943 Naples bombings, and the whole Mostra area was abandoned. After reconstruction, it reopened on 8 June 1952 for the first Mostra Triennale del Lavoro Italiano nel Mondo.

From 28 to 30 September 1952 the theatre hosted the first Festival di Napoli, a song contest devoted to Neapolitan song, and it held the festival again in 1955–1963. It also staged Giugno della Canzone Napoletana in 1961 and Gran Festival di Piedigrotta in 1962. Since 2010 the theatre has served Napoli Comicon for film screenings and themed conferences.

The theatre sits within a larger visitor complex with several museums and exhibition spaces nearby. It makes sense to plan for a full afternoon if you want to see both the theatre and explore the surrounding attractions.

The theatre was destroyed by the 1943 Naples bombings, not spared by them; the interior was redesigned by Luigi Piccinato twice, in 1940 and again in 1952 for the rebuilding. The stage holds a circular revolving platform 13.50 m in diameter and a 12 x 6.5 m screen.