The all-new Escenario Millennium

You’d think we’d be pretty chill about building a third theatre. We’re not. We’re ridiculously excited, mostly because it’s been a whole year since we last produced theatre, and a year is a really long time to go without the smell of a freshly painted set and that weird little silence right before the house lights go down.

So here it is, the new and remodeled Escenario Millennium, which is also the new home of Black Coyote. It’s not our first home, we know, but like every project we’ve ever done it’s packed with obsessive little details, a lot of admiration for this craft and a lot of respect for the people who sit out there in the dark with us.

200 seats. Actual seats.

We’ve been planning this for so long that it almost feels fake now that they’re bolted to the floor. For the past ten years we’ve been dragging the same plastic chairs from venue to venue, stacking them, unstacking them, counting them at 1am, and if you’ve ever been to one of our shows you’ve definitely sat on one and your back still remembers. Those chairs did their job and we love them, but they’re retired now. This is a luxury for you, and honestly, for us too.

And yes, ten years. We’re celebrating that with the start of this new season, which feels kind of perfect, kicking off the next decade in a room that finally looks like the thing we were trying to build all along.

A stage that doesn’t sleep

We didn’t want a room that only wakes up when there’s a show. The idea is for Escenario Millennium to be a little cultural hub all week long, so there’s jazz every Wednesday, there’s a restaurant in the antesala where you can grab lunch on some random Tuesday or stay for a drink after a show, and very soon the audiovisual setup will be in, which means movies on the big screen. Very soon you’ll also be able to rent the space for your own show, your concert, your launch, or that weird experimental thing you’ve been sitting on that we will probably love.

The people who made it happen

A huge thank you to our friends at Creatio, the architecture firm that helped us build this on a schedule that was, let’s be honest, a little insane, and still somehow didn’t let a single detail slide. And to our whole team, the ones who’ve been here for years and the ones joining now, who signed up for this big never ending effort of telling stories, now with a brand new house to tell them in.

Escenario Millennium already opened its doors, and it’s waiting for you.