Teatro Kursaal Santalucia, Theatre in Bari, Italy.

Teatro Kursaal Santalucia is a late-Liberty theatre on largo Adua in central Bari, built into the same block as the surrounding buildings. Its facade has three orders: three identical entrance portals below, three gallery windows above, and three lunette windows of the Sala Giuseppina framed by masks and plant motifs attributed to sculptor Gennaro Pepe. The square auditorium seats 400 across stalls, gallery and three tiers of side boxes, under a stucco and gilded-wood ceiling.

Designed by Orazio Santalucia for his own family in a late Liberty style inspired by northern European kursaals, the theatre opened on 3 March 1924 and initially competed with the nearby Teatro Margherita for variety shows and operettas. In 1936 it was assigned to a Fascist association as the Dopolavoro delle Forze Civili, hosting reduced-price shows for Bari workers. Renamed Cineteatro Adriatico in 1945, then Cine Teatro Santalucia two days later, it became a cinema in 1950 and took its final name. After a 1955 renovation expanded seating from 700 to 1000, it closed in the late 1970s, was bought at auction in 1981 by Fabris s.a.s. of Tonio Buompastore, restored under Paolo Portoghesi from 1985, and reopened on 12 September 1991.

The name Kursaal comes from northern European leisure halls that combined shows with reading, dancing and shooting. The upper Sala Giuseppina, named after Orazio Santalucia's wife, was built for dances and recreation; ten tempera paintings by the Prayer brothers line its walls. Since 2021 the theatre has hosted the opening night of the Bari International Film Festival and, in 2022, the Prix Italia awards ceremony.

The theatre sits on largo Adua, part of the same building block as the surrounding palazzi, and is one stop on Bari's Miglio dei Teatri with the Piccinni, Margherita and Petruzzelli. The auditorium holds 400 seats across the stalls, gallery and three tiers of side boxes. It reopened on 24 September 2021 after two years of restoration work.

The foyer's ticket counter and entrance portals date from the 1984 restoration and reproduce 1920s forms and decoration; the original foyer ornaments are gone. The exterior sculptural decoration, including the masks, human figures and plant motifs above the three lunette windows of the Sala Giuseppina, is attributed to the Bari sculptor Gennaro Pepe.