The Athens Epidaurus Festival

The Athens Epidaurus Festival is Greece’s principal performing-arts festival, founded in 1955 and held each summer in Athens and at the ancient theatre of Epidaurus, a fourth-century BC structure in the Argolid. Its programme of ancient drama, music, opera and dance opens at the turn of May into June and runs through late August. The 2027 edition is the second of three consecutive Epidaurus programmes — 2026, 2027 and 2028 — that the festival is presenting as a single connected whole.

The festival has been under the artistic direction of Michail Marmarinos since September 2025, his three-year mandate running in step with the Epidaurus cycle. The 2026 edition presented 104 productions and more than 2,500 artists from 26 countries across a 92-day season, with nine stagings at Epidaurus. The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, on the southern slope of the Acropolis, has closed for a multi-year restoration, leaving Peiraios 260 — a former industrial complex in its twentieth year as a festival venue — the principal stage in Athens.

The 2027 dates have not yet been published. On the pattern of the two preceding editions, which opened on 1 June 2025 and 29 May 2026, the festival returns in early June and runs across the summer.