Been in Buenos Aires for a few months now, reasonably confident of your Spanish and tired of nights out that don’t end until the sun comes up? Seen a few tango shows, maybe even a couple of plays and looking to be entertained in a slightly different manner? Simply curious about what the hell it is porteños find funny?

Tango in Buenos Aires conjures up a vast range of cultural stereotypes. Perhaps the favoured among tourists is smoky brothel bars in less than salubrious barrios where beautiful girls dance with dangerous men, or sophisticated milongas filled with a belle epoque charm imported direct from Paris.

There is a Zimbabwean proverb which declares that “If you can walk, you can dance”. After an hour of dancing with Laila Canteros, I most certainly cannot walk. Indeed, Laila Canteros’ ‘Introducción a la técnica de danza AfroContemporáneo’ is incredibly physically demanding, yet undeniably exhilarating. She is a teacher, choreographer, performer and now pioneer of a completely organic form of movement.

It’s 1990 in the Middle East, and the first intifada (Palestinian uprising) against Israel rages on for a third year. In a small village in the West Bank, three Palestinian brothers meet in the back of the butcher’s shop where the youngest works. Suspicion and mistrust hang heavy in ‘Masked’, written by Israeli Ilan Hatsor almost 20 years ago, when he was just 18 and a first-year theatre student at Tel Aviv University.

Tales from the Trivenchi circus reach far and wide; I had heard about them from an activist friend of mine in England, and their show had reached Amsterdam. But the centre is currently withstanding another eviction attempt by the government.

The Argentine director and actor Fernando Ferrer had a vagabond school career. Next to his home country, he studied in Denmark, Belgium, Sweden, Holland, Germany and Spain. That made him base his works on internationality. So is his new creation Taranto. The play was written in Denmark and deals with a crime that happened in Sweden but was discovered in Buenos Aires.

Large green snakes slithering across the stage, singing, dancing pink flowers and the remnants of a broken plane in the center of it all. Not the usual scene you would expect from a visit to the planetarium. Don’t worry however, there are plenty of star-gazing moments for all those astronomy aficionados at El Principito, the latest show at the Galileo Galilei Planetarium.

This is only Agustina Gatto’s second play, so the fact that the small theatre is packed on the opening night seems slightly surprising. It is clear from the first scene of this short drama of chase, however, that she has found her feet as playwright and director already.

This Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th April, the British Arts Centre is hosting ‘The Drama of the River Plate’, an English play, centred on the events proceeding the World War II battle between German and British warships in the estuary of the River Plate.

Over the last few weeks, it has been difficult to miss the huge advertisements announcing the arrival of the “phantom” to Buenos Aires. Rather aptly, Teatro Opera on Corrientes has the honour of hosting arguably the most famous Andrew Lloyd Webber musical for the first time in Argentina.