This Saturday, some 81,500 spectators filled the 248 theaters throughout Catalonia that participated in the initiative. No empty chair to celebrate Theater Day, which is 10,000 more than last year and a new record. In the third edition of this theater day, these theaters have offered 305 shows and 347 functions, as reported in a statement by the organizing entity, the Associació d’Empreses de Teatrede Catalunya (ADETCA).
The average occupancy of the rooms has been 88.66% and the initiative has mobilized dozens of companies and producers, technical teams and professionals in the sector. Promoted by ADETCA and the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA), with the support of the Institut Català de les Empreses Culturals of the Department of Culture, the objective of the initiative was to fill all the rooms and break a new record of spectators in a single day.
He No empty chair has involved theaters throughout Catalonia, with notable participation in Barcelona (157), Girona (20), Tarragona (20) and Lleida (17). Beyond Catalonia, the day has also been extended to the Valencian Community, with 20 theaters, or the Balearic Islands, with 9, as well as Andorra, L’Alguer (Italy) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). In 2025, the No empty chair It managed to bring together more than 70,000 spectators in some 216 theaters and performing spaces with more than 250 proposals, reaching 89% occupancy, while in 2024, the first edition, the initiative attracted some 55,000 spectators.
