Out Off Theatre

What Out Off Theatre does

Teatro Out Off is a private, non-profit-equivalent performing arts theater founded in Milan in 1976 by Mino Bertoldo, who continues as artistic director and President. It operates a 200-seat purpose-built venue at Via Mac Mahon 16 (since November 2004, in the renovated former Cinema Eolo, on a 20-year concession from the City of Milan) plus administrative offices at Via Principe Eugenio 22. The theater is recognized by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage as a Teatro Stabile di Innovazione since 2008 and was awarded the Ambrogino d'oro by the City of Milan in 2007. Programming spans contemporary and experimental Italian and international theater, dance, music, and visual arts, anchored by a 40-year artistic relationship with Jan Fabre / Troubleyn (annual Festival Fabre, Teaching Group masterclasses) and recurring collaborations with festivals such as Danae Festival.

The technical infrastructure is centered on an integrated-stage design with no proscenium arch or raised stage: a ~150 sqm stage within a ~400 sqm hall in a ~1,300 sqm total footprint. Equipment includes 34 PC COMBI 1200 luminaires with ADB MENTOR console and motorized bars, a BEHRINGER X32 audio system with FBT/JOLLY/CROWN amplification, a CANON XEED WUX500 video projector, and motorized rigging; scenography is supported by a full black/white/gray masking system and dance floor. Core ticketing and subscription operations run on Vivaticket, with TicketOne used for specific external events such as the Francesco De Gregori residency in October-November 2024.

The revenue model blends three streams: (i) ticket and subscription sales (€20 full / €10 reduced, with OUTCARD, J&S CARD and PASSEPARTOUT cards), (ii) recurring institutional public funding from the Ministry of Culture (€230-€279K/year), Regione Lombardia (~€32-€33K) and the City of Milan (~€50-€91K), supplemented by Fondazione della Comunità and Fondazione Cariplo grants, and (iii) ancillary income from an on-site bistrot, festival hosting, and venue rental / co-production partnerships (e.g., Friends & Partners, TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa, NEXT, Fondazione Claudia Lombardi). The theater serves a primarily Milanese and Lombard audience with a ~30-organization convention network spanning universities, theater schools, cultural associations, and corporate CRAL programs.

Name

Out Off Theatre

Legal name

Teatro Out Off

Website

https://teatrooutoff.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1976

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Teatro Out Off is a Milan-based performing arts theater (founded 1976) that produces and hosts contemporary Italian and international theater, dance, music and visual arts in a 200-seat venue under a Ministry-recognized Teatro Stabile di Innovazione designation, funded by ticket sales and recurring public grants.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Performing Arts Theater

NAICS

Theater Companies and Dinner Theaters (71111), Performing Arts Companies (7111)

SIC

Services-Miscellaneous Amusement & Recreation (7990)

akta.pro primary industry

Classical & Contemporary Theatre (Plays/Drama) (MPAGABAH)

akta.pro secondary industries

Theater & Performing Arts Venue Operations (Playhouses, Opera Houses) (MPAGALAB), Theater, Musicals & Performing Arts (THAJAFAB)

Keywords

• Contemporary theater
• Performing arts productions
• Theatrical performances
• Experimental theater venue
• Live stage productions

Headquarters

HQ city

Milan

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Ticket Sales: The primary revenue stream comes from ticket sales for theatrical productions, concerts, and festival events. Ticket prices range from €10 (over-65, under-26, disability discounts, convention holders) to €20 (full price). The theater has approximately 200 seats per performance.
2. Institutional Public Funding: Teatro Out Off receives recurring funding from the Italian Ministry of Culture (Ministero della Cultura), Regione Lombardia, and the City of Milano (Comune di Milano). Additional support comes from Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione della Comunità. This institutional funding represents a substantial portion of the theater's annual revenue, providing financial stability for operations and productions.
3. Bistrot / Catering: A bistrot located within the theater premises provides food and beverage service to audiences before and after performances. This is described as a continuation of the theater's original model from the 1976 founding, where food and art were united from the outset.
4. Event Hosting and Residency Fees: The theater hosts concerts and events by external artists (e.g., Francesco De Gregori's 20-performance residency in 2024), generating revenue through venue rental and hosting arrangements. These events are produced in partnership with entities like Friends & Partners.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

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Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Teatro Out Off is a Milan-based performing arts theater founded in 1976 that produces and presents contemporary theatrical productions in a 200-seat venue with an integrated stage design. The theater operates a continuous season of original productions, co-productions, festivals (Jan Fabre Festival, Danae Festival), concerts, and masterclasses, supplemented by on-site bistrot hospitality and an institutional/public funding model. It sells tickets, season subscriptions (OUTCARD, J&S CARD, PASSEPARTOUT), and educational programs directly to audiences and through Vivaticket and TicketOne online platforms.

Product overview

Out Off Theatre is a theater company operating since 1976 in Milan, offering a unified portfolio of live theatrical productions and performance events. The company functions as both a producing theater (creating and staging original productions) and a venue host (presenting guest performances and festivals). Core offerings include: theatrical productions across its 200-seat venue (Stagione), season subscriptions (OUTCARD, J&S CARD, PASSEPARTOUT), online ticketing via Vivaticket, venue rental services, and educational programs like the Jan Fabre Teaching Group masterclass. The company also hosts recurring festivals including Festival Fabre and collaborates annually with DANAE Festival, presenting a mix of in-house productions and co-productions with other Italian theaters.

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Products and services

• 200-Seat Theater Venue (Sala Teatrale) A 200-seat purpose-built theater venue at Via Mac Mahon 16, Milan, featuring an integrated stage design without a traditional proscenium arch. The hall is approximately 400 sqm with a 150 sqm stage area, equipped with professional lighting, audio, video, and scenographic systems for contemporary and experimental theater productions.
• OUTCARD Season Subscription

Quantifiable outcome

• Productions have received multiple Premio UBU and Premio Nazionale della Critica awards over nearly 50 years of operation.
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Integration2 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• TPE – Teatro Piemonte Europa / Festival delle Colline TorinesiminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Co-production partner for the 'Eneide' (Aeneid) reading series (March 2025), in which Paolo Musio performed a reading of all 12 books of Virgil's Aeneid across six evenings. The production combined Teatro Out Off's resources with TPE's festival infrastructure.
• Drama Teatro e Teatro dei naufraghiminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Co-production partner for the 'Giobbe' (Job) production (March 2025), directed by Federico Olivetti, presented at Teatro Out Off. Drama Teatro and Teatro dei naufraghi contributed to the production alongside Teatro Out Off's programming.
• Friends & PartnerscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 29 October 2024Friends & Partners is the production company for Francesco De Gregori's concert tours. The theater hosted a 20-performance residency of De Gregori's 'Nevergreen (Perfette Sconosciute)' from October 29 to November 23, 2024, produced by Friends & Partners. This residency represents a significant artistic and commercial partnership for the theater.
• NEXT – Laboratorio delle idee per la produzione e la programmazione dello spettacolo lombardominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024NEXT (Edizione 2024/2025) provided support for the production 'El Marchionn e la Ninetta: Carlo Porta nel mondo degli ultimi', a Teatro Out Off production featuring Lorenzo Loris's staging of Carlo Porta's poetry.
• OderstrasseminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Oderstrasse collaborated on the production 'Contronatura' by Collettivo SE²I, presented at Teatro Out Off in May 2025. The production was also supported by Campo Teatrale and Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro.
• Campo TeatraleminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Campo Teatrale co-supported the 'Contronatura' production by Collettivo SE²I, presented at Teatro Out Off in May 2025, alongside Oderstrasse and Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro.
• Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatrominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Fondazione Claudia Lombardi per il teatro supported the 'Contronatura' production (finalist with special mention in the Bando Testinscena 2024) and also supported the Collettivo SE²I project.
• Compagnia Elena Arvigo / Santarita&Jack TeatrominorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Teatro Out Off co-produced the 'ELENA' production (2024) by Ghiannis Ritsos with Compagnia Elena Arvigo (Associazione SantaRita&Jack Teatro), continuing an ongoing collaborative relationship that also produced 'Appunti per il futuro' (2025).
• VivaticketcoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 1 January 2024Vivaticket is the primary online ticketing platform for Teatro Out Off, handling ticket sales for regular performances, subscriptions (OUTCARD, J&S CARD), and festival passes. The platform is referenced across all performance pages as the primary online sales channel.
• Seledata System srlminorOthers · 1 January 2021Seledata System srl has provided payroll processing, fiscal, and legal consultancy services to Teatro Out Off since January 2, 1997. The company is based in Milan and employs 6 people. Annual fees are approximately €18,000–€26,000.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves10 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Piccolo Teatro di Milano: Milan's flagship Teatro Stabile, founded 1947, operating multiple venues (Teatro Strehler, Teatro Grassi, Teatro Melato) with full-season programming of contemporary, classical, and international theater, plus a drama school. Directly comparable to Teatro Out Off as a Milan-based contemporary theater institution with public mission, government recognition as a Teatro Stabile, and several-thousand-seat capacity.
• Teatro Carcano: Historic Milan theater (founded 1803) now operated under institutional management presenting contemporary and classical drama, with ~1,000-seat capacity. Comparable as a Milan-based performing arts venue hosting contemporary seasons, institutional partnerships, and touring productions.
• Teatro Stabile di Torino — Teatro Nazionale: Turin-based national Teatro Stabile, Italy's third national theater, operating multiple venues including Teatro Carignano and Teatro Gobetti. Comparable as a publicly recognized Italian Teatro Stabile institution with national touring infrastructure and contemporary programming, though larger scale than Out Off.

Direct peers

• Teatro Franco Parenti: Contemporary Milan theater operating a ~500-seat main hall plus smaller spaces, focused on contemporary drama, dance, and Italian-language productions. Directly comparable as a Milan-based theater company presenting contemporary and experimental productions with annual season programming, international collaborations, and similar public/private funding mix.
• Teatro Elfo Puccini: Milan theater presenting contemporary Italian and international productions in multiple venues (Sala Bausch, Sala Fassbinder). Highly comparable as a Milan-based contemporary theater programming dramaturgical, dance, and visual arts productions with institutional funding and festival programming.
• TPE — Teatro Piemonte Europa: Turin-based contemporary theater company producing and co-producing international contemporary drama, including a documented co-production partnership with Teatro Out Off on the 2025 "Eneide" reading series. Comparable as a contemporary Italian theater company with co-production track record and institutional support.

Regional players

• Teatro Bellini di Napoli: Naples-based historic theater presenting Italian-language contemporary, classical, and musical theater productions with subsidy support. Comparable as a regional Italian theater institution hosting contemporary productions and similar institutional funding mechanics, though Naples-based rather than Milan-based.
• Teatro della Pergola: Historic Florence theater (founded 1656), Italy's oldest active theater, presenting contemporary and classical seasons across multiple halls. Highly comparable as an Italian theater venue with institutional recognition, contemporary programming, and long operating history, though operating in a different geographic market.
• LAC — Lugano Arte e Cultura: Major performing arts and cultural complex in Lugano, Switzerland, programming theater, dance, and music in multiple halls. Adjacent comparable as a contemporary performing arts venue operator in the Italian-speaking region with similar institutional funding model, though serves a different national market.

Emerging players

• Teatro dei Borgia / Associazione Culturale Stabile sull'Arte e la Natura: Contemporary Italian theater collective producing experimental and dramaturgical productions, comparable in profile to Out Off as a contemporary/experimental producing company rather than purely a venue. Smaller scale and emerging compared to Out Off's 50-year institutional history.

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Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

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