The Poliorama Theatre

In 1937 it stopped offering cinema and lost its name, becoming the Catalan Theater of Comedy. With a program focused on Catalan theater, works by Frederic Soler, Albert Llanas, Angel Guimerà, Ignasi Iglesias, and Santiago Rusiñol were offered.

With the outbreak of the Civil War, the building was seized by the CNT-FAI and became the scene of the shootout between members of the POUM and the CNT that George Orwell immortalized in his "Homage to Catalonia." 

After the war, the building was acquired by Pedro Balaca, who reopened it as a cinema and restored the name Poliorama in 1939. The Poliorama did not become a theater again until 1963 when, after a renovation, it once again combined theater performances and films.

In 1963, it was refurbished and reopened, once again combining cinema and theater. In 1976, it stopped offering cinema and became the Poliorama Theater, a name it still holds today. After a renovation, carried out by the Martorell-Bohigas-McKay studio, it reopened in 1985. The management was initially taken over by the Department of Culture of the Generalitat and later by the company Tres per 3 S.A., which currently manages the Poliorama Theater with important works of the new Catalan theater such as Dakota or The Grönholm Method.

The theater is adapted and has special seats for people with reduced mobility.