Municipal Theater The first theater of Arraial do Porto da Cachoeira was created in 1883, under the name Teatro Comunitário. Its installation was to the Left Bank, in the old mansion of the commander Jose de Oliveira Gomes, where at that time warehouses belonging to the Porto brothers were installed. It was the stage of great and majestic pieces, famous singers, good musicians and well - known artists belonging to the Theater Ambulante, very in vogue at the time. After a few years, its headquarters was transferred to the Right Margin, receiving the name of. Santo Antonio, in a large rented house. The construction of its own headquarters was only started in 1885, with the founders: Luiz Felippe de Franca, Antônio José da Costa Junior, Joao Jacynto de Aguiar and José Joaquim Gonçalves, who began construction, whose completion would be April 15 Of 1885. Failed to meet the deadline and the work was abandoned for 10 years. It was only on September 28, 1895 that its construction was completed, by virtue of the City Hall, receiving the current name of Municipal Theater. It is a building located on Marechal Deodoro Street, near the Station, with three large and imposing doors
