The Main Theatre (Teatro Principal)

The Main Theatre is Located in the street 8 Oriente corner with 6 Norte, his telephone is 232-60-85.

In the boundary with the indigenous neighborhood of El Ato, almost in the setting margin of the river of San Francisco, original and giver of promises and urban hopes, there would be of be built a comedies corral, one of the several that would arrive to exist in the recently founded Puebla, so that toward 1760 is built - with encounters concentration and reencounter of clientele merchants - the known from then on, and yet now Main Theatre.

Its first accession are should attribute it, with exceeded justice, to the carpenter Juan Gómez Melgarejo in the pleasure of seeing and representing comedies installed in his domicile a small theatre that would come to be the harbinger of the profane theatre in Puebla and, furthermore, the beginer without bargainings of the domestic theatre ( familiar theatre) that Puebla apprehended of extraordinary way for example congregate you of all the New Spain. This happens running "the year of grace of 1613", when "the neighbors of the Nobilísima City of the Angels was beared for lacking an own site so that the accommodated and decent families are gathered in search of recreation and honest amusement". But the problems of the theatre and the authorities seem be colaterals to the theatrical occupation, therefore soon the little theatre of Juan Gómez Melgarejo (to who, said will be of Puebla and Mexico to him should their its installation in the histrionic report), would suffer in own meat the ordinance of the town hall to finish with the incipient comedies corral that was provoking noises and confusions, laughs and gabbles of that leave of he to high hours of the night to break "the traditional quietude of conventual population".