The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle

The Onassis Stegi Winter Cycle is the annual theatre and dance programme held at the Onassis Stegi on Syngrou Avenue in Athens, Greece, running from mid-November into late March. The Stegi is an 18,000-square-metre building banded in white marble, designed by the French practice Architecture Studio from a field of sixty-six competition entries and opened in December 2010. It is the Onassis Foundation’s principal stage in Athens, with an 880-seat Main Stage and a 200-seat Upper Stage.

The 2026–27 cycle opens on 12 November 2026 with Robert Icke’s Oedipus on the Main Stage, which runs through 13 December 2026. Nikos Kouris takes the title role and Maria Kechagioglou plays Jocasta. The production won two Olivier Awards in London and received seven Tony nominations on Broadway; its first Athens season closed at forty-six sold-out performances. The return engagement plays Wednesday to Sunday, with English-surtitled evenings within the run.

Onassis Dance Days (ODD) — the Stegi’s annual contemporary-dance festival — takes all three stages for four days each winter. The 2026 edition ran from 5 to 8 February and opened with Marlene Monteiro Freitas’s NÔT, which had also opened the 79th Avignon Festival. The 2027 edition is expected in early February; the full winter programme is published in autumn.