Teatro Chueca
A historic theatre in Madrid, Spain, built in 1924.
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Overview
Teatro Chueca was a theatre located on Plaza de Chamberí in Madrid, Spain. The venue was built in 1924 and is documented as part of Madrid's twentieth-century theatrical infrastructure. Available reference material identifies the building and location but provides limited information about its architectural design, operators, ownership, commercial model, or eventual fate. It is therefore best understood as a historical theatre venue rather than as a contemporary operating entertainment brand. The theatre's surviving cultural record is associated with stage productions presented during the 1920s and 1930s. Among the notable works linked to the venue are El jardín de las caricias, recorded in 1926; Para valiente el amor; Viva Alcorcón que es mi pueblo, from 1933; La niña calamar, from 1935; and El Hombre invisible, from 1936. These titles indicate a programming profile centered on Spanish-language theatrical entertainment during the period, although the available sources do not establish whether the theatre specialized in a particular dramatic genre, maintained a resident company, or hosted touring productions. The venue's name should not be confused with modern businesses or cultural institutions using the Chueca name in Madrid. The subject covered here is specifically the theatre identified in the Wikipedia article Teatro Chueca and located on Plaza de Chamberí. No reliable reference material supplied for this entry establishes a current website, active management, corporate parent, owner, listed status, or present-day operating status. Further archival research would be needed to document its opening programme, architectural history, later renovations, closure or demolition, and relationship to Madrid's wider theatre sector.
History
Teatro Chueca was built in 1924 on Plaza de Chamberí in Madrid. The available historical record is brief, but identifies the building as a theatre operating within the city's established live-performance culture. Its location in Chamberí placed it within a central Madrid district with access to local residents and urban audiences, although the sources supplied do not describe its seating capacity, architectural style, auditorium, stage technology, or administrative organization. The venue is chiefly documented through the productions associated with it. El jardín de las caricias is recorded in 1926, suggesting that the theatre was presenting dramatic works within two years of its construction. Other titles connected with the venue include Para valiente el amor, Viva Alcorcón que es mi pueblo in 1933, La niña calamar in 1935, and El Hombre invisible in 1936. Together, these records place Teatro Chueca within the Spanish theatrical repertory of the interwar period and show that its programme extended across several types of stage entertainment. The available material does not provide sufficient evidence to classify the venue more narrowly by genre or to determine whether the listed works were premieres, engagements, revivals, or productions by resident companies. The surviving references do not establish the theatre's full operational history after 1936. There is no supplied information about its later programming, wartime experience, post-war management, renovation history, closure, conversion, or demolition. Its present status is consequently recorded as unknown rather than definitively active or defunct. Likewise, no founder, operator, owner, parent organization, executive, website, or financial information has been identified. The theatre's historical significance in this dossier rests on its documented existence as a 1924 Madrid venue and on the surviving record of productions staged there.
- 1936
El Hombre invisible
[1]El Hombre invisible is listed among the notable plays associated with Teatro Chueca.
- 1935
La niña calamar
[1]La niña calamar is listed among the theatre's notable plays.
- 1933
Viva Alcorcón que es mi pueblo
[1]Viva Alcorcón que es mi pueblo is recorded as a notable production associated with Teatro Chueca.
- 1926
El jardín de las caricias
[1]El jardín de las caricias is listed among the notable plays associated with the theatre.
- 1924
Theatre built in Madrid
[1]Teatro Chueca was built on Plaza de Chamberí in Madrid, Spain.
Products and positioning
A Madrid theatre venue associated with Spanish-language stage productions in the early twentieth century.
Stage play · 1926
El jardín de las caricias
A stage work recorded as part of Teatro Chueca's notable programming in 1926. The available reference does not provide reliable information about its author, genre, cast, production company, or length of run.
Stage play
Para valiente el amor
A theatrical production associated with Teatro Chueca. The supplied source lists the title but does not specify a year, creative team, plot, or production details.
Stage play · 1933
Viva Alcorcón que es mi pueblo
A notable play recorded at Teatro Chueca in 1933. Beyond its title and association with the Madrid venue, the available reference does not establish its authorship, style, cast, or commercial reception.
Stage play · 1935
La niña calamar
A stage production listed among the theatre's notable plays and dated to 1935. No further production or performance information is available in the supplied material.
Stage play · 1936
El Hombre invisible
A notable play associated with Teatro Chueca in 1936. The available reference records the title and year but does not identify the production's creative personnel or theatrical format.
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