Agrigento's main theatre sits in Piazza Luigi Pirandello, named in 1946 after the city's Nobel Prize-winning playwright, whose birthplace (Casa Natale di Pirandello) lies just outside town. The building's history hasn't been a straight line: it briefly became a cinema in the 1930s, closed for restoration in 1956, and stayed dark for thirty years, reopening only in 1986 for the fiftieth anniversary of Pirandello's death, then fully returning to regular seasons in 1995, in a ceremony attended by the sitting President of Italy.
It's still very much a living theatre today, not a museum piece. The 2026/27 season, titled "Echi e Orizzonti" (Echoes and Horizons), is directed by Roberta Torre and mixes prose, music, and dance, national touring productions alongside local Sicilian artists.
The theatre also now hosts its own Pirandello Fringe Festival, a newer addition showcasing short new works. Worth checking the current programme before your stay, whatever's showing tends to sell out its best seats first.