From the vedlets to the stand-up

In Barcelona, ​​if something characterizes us is that we are an innovative and creative city. A metropolis that surfers the avant -garde and looks more in Europe than Europe and everything. If we need to renew the city, the novelty is exalted more than we fall in love with what we already had. Between the Franco regime, the Olympics and the Gentrification, we have come to load much of our cultural identity as the most contemporary: from the incredible modernist chamfers (which are now flats by Núñez and Navarro) to the bars of a lifetime converted into specialty coffee shops. The dozens of parallel theaters have also suffered the consequences of speculation: the avenue that one hundred years ago was a world mecca of the performing arts, now it is … Well, what is now. A kind of motorway with a bike lane in the middle.

Luckily, now our fortune changes. The City Council has bought the iconic cabaret The molino and, after public tender, months ago he reopened him under the management of the Festival Cruïlla. We recover one of our most emblematic and heritage theaters, which has received a facelift to make it a sophisticated and cozy space where you can enjoy a program of music and comedy that will make the most of its potential as a small-format room. At the moment, you will not find stones. That great hit of “What dust has the mill … what dust the mills!”. The new generations of musicians-vedets-mc’s as Gloria Ribera (which has published one of the Aboriginal hits in the room, The bomb of the molino), or the most charismatic transformers such as Alex Marteen or Sharonnethey will have to wait to see what happens to the Arnau Theater so that the spirit of Boa de feathers, underground, transgressor and identity of the Paral·lel, which is currently attached to some bar in Poble-sec, is not diluted.

Hilaria Club at Molino

What recovers the new Molino is another genre with a purely pacelec DNA: comedy. Every Wednesday you can enjoy the Hilaria, the Stand-up Club in the city that considerably sophisticated the experience of enjoying monologues. Here you can reserve a table, dinner and a cocktail in a relaxed, even glamorous atmosphere. While we already have spaces like The mediumLa Golem’sthe Comedy Clubhouse or collectives like Her llama, Comedy Gold, Too Comedy, Infolols or l ‘Other micwhich regularly organizes comedy shows, the crossroads bring the best comics in the city closer with a triple experience that makes the evening a safe bet: laughter, cocktails and postfunction music thanks to a local DJ that punctures for those who want to stay to make the talk … or for those who want to take after the performance. The entrance is free once the monologues finish and until their closure, at one o’clock in the morning! FromIrene Minovas into Andrés Fajngoldpassing through Vanessa Valero, Xavi Daura, Hannah Becker, Arnau Garcia, Enzo Vizcaíno… A series of essential artists, coordinated by the scriptwriter Oriol de Balanzó ((The competitionRAC1), which promises to turn Hilaria into one of the essential events of local comedy. Ah … and although it is technically escaped from the stage recommendation: the author’s cocktails are very good.

A new comic festival in Barcelona

And when it seemed that the thing couldn’t grow anymore, the Hilaria Festival. After two successful editions under the name of Cruïlla Comedy, the project is reborn this November (from 11 to 16) with more ambition than ever and a poster capable of filling the Poble-sec laughter for five nights. The Molino, parallel 62 and La Paloma will host unique proposals such as the Roast in Cataloniathe theatrical duel The caloric vs hilariathe commented viewing Police Squad! Òscar Dalmau honors Leslie Nielsenor unrepeatable quotes such as Just one nightwith Asaari Bibang and the Roast to Dani of the Order.

‘The caloric vs hilària’

The selection of shows is of authentic luxury: Irene Minovas will Minovasits most personal show; Natza Farré will debut as a master of ceremonies of a late night next to Judit Martin; Marc Sarrats and Arnau Garcia promise chaos and fun with Cocktail attitude; and the party Traca and handkerchief It will bring together some of the most powerful new names on the scene to release fresh and irreverent material.

This outburst does not come by chance: According to sources in the sector, only last season were sold more than 200,000 tickets of comedy shows and near 40,000 people They attended open micros in Barcelona. The stand-up has ceased to be an underground novelty to become one of the cultural engines of the city, and the Hilaria festival is the most forceful test.

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Hilaria Festival

November 11, 2025 to 16 November 2025

Don’t miss the Hilaria festival from November 11 to 16! After two editions of the Cruïlla Comedy, this fall comes the new Hilaria festival (which is actually […]

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Don’t miss the Hilaria festival from November 11 to 16! After two editions of the Cruïlla Comedy, this fall comes the new Hilaria festival (which is actually […]

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