Ona Cultural

Ona Cultural is a lively culture show with a strong theatre pulse. It works close to the Barcelona stage. Recent episodes center on interviews with artists and festival teams, often beginning with a production, a venue, or a run date before widening into the ideas behind the work. The pace is brisk. Conversations jump between Catalan and Spanish, with guests and interviewer building on each other in quick turns. The show’s theater coverage is concrete: benches in a park, a piano onstage, lights, shadows, school performances, touring circuits, festival editions, post-show talks, and the practical work of getting audiences into rooms. It is not just listings. A conversation about El Parc becomes a look at parenting, male friendship, humor, and the awkwardness of adulthood. A Festival Mutis interview turns toward emerging creation, irreverent work, audience participation, loss, and the need to make space for uncomfortable subjects. D’un refugi al sol brings musical theatre into contact with comedy, memory, political awareness, and the challenge of handling sensitive source material without flattening it. La Infamia moves into graver terrain through Lídia Cacho’s texts, journalism, child trafficking, abuse, touring, and the hope that the story can travel. El piset brings housing anxiety, immersive staging, theatrical resources, young audiences, and Catalan touring hopes into the same conversation. The show has an affectionate bias toward the people who make theatre happen. It names companies, performers, directors, halls, festivals, and assistants with the enthusiasm of someone keeping a local arts network visible. The tone can be messy in the useful way live arts talk often is. It leaves in interruptions, enthusiasm, corrections, and the sense that the conversation is happening in real time around a production. For listeners, the value is access. Ona Cultural makes new and current stage work feel approachable without sanding off its politics, craft, or emotional stakes.