The 2026/27 theater season began with premieres, awards, guest appearances - local theaters are clearly resistant to everyday life
The 2026/27 theater season began this September with premieres, jubilee performances, guest performances and awards - as if we were not living in years without money and in an abundance of hostility from the authorities towards theaters.
In the Belgrade Drama Theater tonight (September 22), the "Jagošev Week" began, dedicated to to one of the most important theater directors in the region, Jagoš Marković. This six-day event, which always begins on the day of his death, was opened by the play "Suspicious Face" of the Sombor National Theater, based on the famous comedy by Branislav Nušić.
By the way, the season at the Belgrade Drama Theater started already on September 1, earlier than in all other theaters. In fact, it continued with the Summer Season program, which other theaters in the capital do not have.
In August, as part of that program, the play "More than a Game" was performed at the Budva City Theater festival, and in Ivanjica, as part of the Cultural Summer, the play "The Life of Provincial Playboys after the Second World War" was hosted at the Budva City Theater festival. Then, the play "Each bird to its flock" was performed at the Bar Chronicle festival in Bar and Brioni as part of the Ulysses Theater program at the RUTA festival. The play "King Ibi" took part in the festival of Purgatory in Tivat, and the play "Lie" was played in Belef, in the Sava Center.
On the Summer Stage of the Belgrade Drama Theater "Millennium Team Arena" there was also the program "New Voices" dedicated to young authors, which ended on August 29 with the premiere of the play "The Woman Ties a Tail" written by Marija Rakočević and directed by Maša Pavlović.
This play is part of the Year of Comedy at the Belgrade Drama Theater, and two more have been announced until the end of 2026: "Nada" based on the novel of the same name by Ante Tomić and "Kus petlić" by Aleksandar Popović.
Also tonight, September 22, the 50th performance of the play "The Loser" directed by Nataša Radulović was played in the Yugoslav Drama Theater. It's a story about music, genius, envy, the terror of success and the ease of failure, starring Lenka Petrović, Stojša Oljačić, Teodor Vinčić and Joakim Tasić. Joakim Tasić received the "Miloš Žutić" award from the Association of Dramatic Artists of Serbia for the role of Wertheimer.
In August, two plays participated in the Purgatory festival in Tivat. Shakespeare's "Richard the Second" directed by Boris Liješević was in the competition program, and Nušić's "People's Deputy" directed by Vito Taufer was performed in honor of the winner. And among them was Milan Marić - by the unanimous decision of the jury, he received the award for acting bravura for the role of Richard the Second.
In July, it was announced that Mirko Ilić's posters for the performances of the Yugoslav Drama Theater were also awarded this year at the prestigious Graphis Poster Awards competition.
U National Theatre in Belgrade, tomorrow, September 23, the Glinka State Academic Choir from St. Petersburg will be a guest, which will also be on the stage of this house this month. The National Theater will start its season only on October 3 with the premiere of the ballet "Resurrected Shadows" to the music of Academician Svetislav Božić. The choreographer is Jovica Begojev, artistic director of the Ballet.
On the website of the National Theater it is written that it is a monumental work and that it brings the life story of Nadežda and Rastka Petrović "which is deeply intertwined with the suffering of the Serbian people in the Great War. The performance through ballet dance, choral and solo musical interpretation of verses by Milutin Bojić, Momčilo Nastasijević and Tanasi Mladenović, triumphantly depicts the sacrifice of artists and people and their resurrection through memory and art". Ballet and Opera ensembles take part in the performance, conducted by Đorđe Pavlović.
Jovica Begojev, so the artistic director of the Ballet, is the choreographer of another ballet premiere - "Rukoveti" performed on September 15 as part of "Mokranjčev days" in Negotin.
By the way, at the beginning of September, the Opera and Ballet of the National Theater published a three-month repertoire, from October to December, which is new in the operations of the National Theatre, with a note that the Drama repertoire will be published as before at the end of the month for the following month.
The Serbian National Theater will publish a three-month repertoire from this season, but for all ensembles. By the end of the season, they will have nine premiers, the management announced.
The first premiere in 2026/27 was played in "Atelier 212", on September 18, which also started the seventieth season of this theater. They chose "A Whole Life in a Year" based on the series of the same name by Aleksandar Popović, and on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of his death.
The text was written by Nina Plavanjac and Vida Davidović, and the play was directed by Stevan Bodroža. In satirical tones, the play talks about man's eternal need to find himself in another, about the search for another human being and togetherness, asking the question: how have we spent our lives? The play features: Goran Jevtić, Jelena Trkulja, Jelena Petrović, Vladislav Mihailović, Nevena Ignjatović and Relja Janković.
The jubilee season of "Atelje 212" began with an award: at the 25th Festival of Bosnian Drama Zenica 2026, it participated with a play "Healing Mode" Tanje Šljivar, directed by Đorđe Nešović, and received the "Radovan Marušić" award for the best art design of the play, which was unanimously awarded to Maja Mirković and Biljana Tegeltija Bojanić for the costume of this play.
Bitef Theater for September 26, announces the premiere of "Impure Blood" based on the novel of the same name by Bora Stanković, choreographed by Miloš Isailović, with music by Ana Krstajić. The play was co-produced by Obod's Bitef Theater and "Ćirilica", and premiered on September 3 in Budva.
There are seven dancers on stage who do not interpret specific roles, but rather different aspects of a woman's experience. Through the language of contemporary dance, the performance examines the relationship between tradition and freedom, belonging and the need for resistance. "Dirty Blood" questions where rebellion begins and where the fear of losing belonging, as well as what solidarity among women means today when they turn to idealization.
Madlenianum Theatre and Opera will have six premieres this season. The first is on September 29, "I, Emma - The Love Life of Emma Bovary" based on the text and direction Tatjane Mandić Rigonat. The title role is played by Jana Milosavljević.
Madlenianum announces a modern staging of a classic literary work, a play about a famous rebel who breaks the norms of a woman's behavior from the middle of the 19th century and fights for life according to her standards of freedom, a play full of strength and passion.
"Zvezdara Theater" for October, which begins the season, announces the jubilees of two plays - "Una" and "Professionalac" will be performed for the 50th time.
The theater in Terazije started the season with performances from the existing repertoire. In September, they participated in "Mokranjčev dani" in Negotin with "Balkan Express", and in July in the Barka Yearbook with their famous musical "Gypsies fly to the sky".
The Youth Theater in Novi Sad started the season with the premiere of "Dohvati mi plavogo medu", which was inspired by Silvija Šesto's picture book, directed by Emilija Mrdaković. It is a multi-layered and deeply emotional story that describes - it seems - a small, but difficult moment in the relationship between a child and a parent, in which everyone who calls themselves mother or father will recognize themselves. This story about growing up will be performed by Uroš Lazović, Marija Mitrović, Marija Todorović and Aleksandar Milković.
"Boško Buha" Theater started the season on September 20 with the play "Thinme" based on the famous fairy tale of Hans Christian Andersen, dramatized by Milena Depolo and directed by Andrea Pjević, the latest premiere of this scene.
Anja Pavićević, Borka Tomović, Andrijana Oliverić, Marko Pavlović, Relja Janković and Ivan Mihailović play in this gentle and exciting story about growing up, diversity, freedom and the right to make one's own choice.
On the Evening Stage, the new season begins on September 25 with the play "Murder on the Orient Express" based on Agatha Christie's novel, directed by Darian Mihajlovic.
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Small theater "Duško Radović" opened the season with the play "Treasure Island" by Kokan Mladenović, with the announcement of the premiere on the Večernje stage of "Baal" based on Bertold Brecht, dramatized by Tijana Grumić and directed by the Slovenian director Primo Žekart as early as October 1. Baal is played by Philip Stankowski.
Until recently, they toured the region throughout the summer.
The play "Tesla" won two awards at the 34th International Children's Festival in Kotor: Petar Lazarević for the best acting performance for the role of Tesla, and Srđan Marković for the music in the play. The play was also played in Koper, in cooperation with the Koper Theatre. "Treasure Island" was performed as part of the 39th Bar Yearbook, and then in Budva, as part of the 40th jubilee edition of the "City Theater" festival.
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