The Lara Theatre is an old Italian-style theatre built in 1879 at number 15 Corredera Baja de San Pablo in the Maravillas neighbourhood of Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, in the area that has been known since the last third of the 20th century as the Malasaña area.
It was born from the private initiative of the “plutocrat Cándido Lara”, and was inaugurated on 3 September 1880. Among the most important premieres there are Los inversiones creados, by Jacinto Benavente, in 1907, and Falla’s ballet El amor brujo, in 1915. It has a capacity of 464 people and 9 balconies.
The project was by the architect Carlos Velasco Peinado who designed a premises with three vestibules, “small, proportionate and of pleasant appearance”, popularly known as the Bombonera de don Cándido.
The Lara continued to delight its increasingly less discerning public for almost half a century more, until it closed in 1985. After its remodelling by the builder Luis Ramírez, its new owner Carmen Troitiño reopened its doors on 14 March 1994, re-releasing a version of Alfonso Paso’s play Enseñar a un sinvergüenza.
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