Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

Andrea Scanzi brings Ora o mai più to Teatro Ambra Jovinelli on Tuesday, March 23, 2027 at 21:00, at Via Guglielmo Pepe 43, on the Esquiline Hill (00185 Rome): it is the new political satire one man show by the Il Fatto Quotidiano journalist, with the subtitle 10 Ways to Defeat (Maybe) Giorgia Meloni. On the authorized presale circuit indicated by the organizers, full-price tickets range from 29 euros in the second gallery to 44 euros in premium orchestra, fees excluded. The Rome date is organized by Ventidieci. The show is produced by Loft Produzioni. The theater can be reached by metro line A, Vittorio Emanuele stop, a few minutes' walk away, or from Termini.

Language: performed in Italian. No English version or English surtitles are announced.

Scanzi in the theater is nothing new: since Gaber se fosse Gaber, in 2011, he has built a repertoire that alternates portraits of singer-songwriters and political satire. Ora o mai più belongs to the second strand, and is openly a partisan show: the official presentation calls it explosive satire, designed to prepare the audience for the coming elections.

Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli in brief

Andrea Scanzi's Ora o mai più is at Teatro Ambra Jovinelli in Rome for a single night, Tuesday, March 23, 2027 at 21:00, with tickets from 29 to 44 euros on the authorized presale circuit.

Date and time

The Rome date is a single one, Tuesday, March 23, 2027, starting at 21:00. It is also the last of the tour listed on Scanzi's official website, which began in November 2026 with Prato and Massarosa. The running time is not published.

Prices

The list of full-price tickets, net of fees, is this: premium orchestra 44 euros, premium orchestra with limited visibility and orchestra 39 euros, orchestra with limited visibility, first gallery and first gallery stools 36 euros, second gallery and second gallery stools 29 euros. Some limited-visibility sections of the galleries appear unavailable.

Tickets

Tickets are bought on the authorized presale circuit indicated by the organizers, and on the theater's official website, ambrajovinelli.org, you'll find the hall's box office information.

Who is behind the show

Ora o mai più is written and performed by Andrea Scanzi, with sets by Giorgia Ricci. The production is by Loft Produzioni, the distribution by Epoché ArtEventi. The organizer of the date at Ambra is Ventidieci.

Ora o mai più: what you see on stage

Ora o mai più is a political satire one man show in which Andrea Scanzi, in his irreverent style, takes apart the record of the government in office and tries to shake the audience into a reaction, ahead of the coming elections.

The subtitle

The subtitle is 10 Ways to Defeat (Maybe) Giorgia Meloni, and that maybe in parentheses is the comic key of the show. The official presentation starts from an observation: the prime minister approaches the elections still as the favorite, the opposition struggles, voters seem anesthetized. The show asks if we should resign ourselves, and answers no.

The tone

According to the official text the show is now hilarious, now moving: Scanzi lists what he considers the lies, incompetence and arrogance of those who govern, and then turns to the audience to push it toward a reaction, a resistance, a change. The target isn't only the majority: the society that can no longer get indignant is also put on trial.

The form

Big music, constant changes of rhythm and a text that varies from date to date, also depending on the audience's reaction. The presentation speaks of a show able to hold together Pertini and Meloni, Berlinguer and La Russa, Pasolini and Donzelli: memory of the Republic and recent political news, set side by side by contrast.

The Ora o mai più tour and the Rome date

Ora o mai più has been on tour since November 2026 and the schedule published on Andrea Scanzi's website closes precisely with the Rome date at Ambra Jovinelli, on March 23, 2027.

The stops

The tour starts in November at the Garibaldi in Prato and the Teatro Manzoni in Massarosa, goes down to Puglia at Rutigliano and Martina Franca, resumes in January with Alba, Genoa, Modena and Turin, and in February passes through Bologna, Omegna, the Teatro Carcano in Milan and Busto Arsizio. In March it touches Civitavecchia, the Teatro Puccini in Florence, Alessandria and finally Rome.

Why the Rome date matters

A show that varies from night to night arrives in Rome with four months of performances behind it. For a political satire text it also means arriving in the city of the palaces of power, a few kilometers from those being talked about on stage.

A tour of historic theaters

Many stops on the tour are halls with a long history: the Carcano in Milan, the Puccini in Florence, the Govi in Genoa, the Dehon in Bologna, where the show has two consecutive nights. Ambra Jovinelli, inaugurated in 1909 and reborn in 2001 as a comedy theater, closes the tour with a hall that has made satire a vocation. For those living outside Rome, the closest stop before the capital is the Teatro Traiano in Civitavecchia, on March 4.

Who Andrea Scanzi is

Andrea Scanzi, born in Arezzo on May 6, 1974, is a journalist, writer and commentator. He has written for Il Fatto Quotidiano since 2011, hosts television programs and for 15 years has been bringing his own shows to the theater.

His education

After scientific high school he graduated in modern literature from the University of Siena in 2000, with a thesis on singer-songwriters titled Amici fragili. He is a juror of the Club Tenco and artistic director of the Premio Pigro dedicated to Ivan Graziani.

Journalism

He writes for Il mucchio selvaggio, il manifesto, Il Riformista, L'Espresso, Panorama, MicroMega and other publications, then in 2005 moves to La Stampa, for which he also covers the motorcycle world championship. In 2011 he lands at Il Fatto Quotidiano, where he deals mainly with politics, music and sports and edits the weekly column Identikit.

Television

From 2012 to 2016 he hosts Reputescion on La3. From 2013 he is a frequent guest on Otto e mezzo on La7 and from 2016 on Cartabianca. In 2018 he is part of the expert jury of the Sanremo Festival and starts hosting Accordi e disaccordi on Nove, with Luca Sommi. For the Fatto's TV channel, Loft, he hosts, among others, Amici fragili and Chiedilo a Scanzi.

Books

He has written biographies and portraits of athletes and musicians, from Gilles Villeneuve to Ivano Fossati, two books on wine for Mondadori and many political essays, including Renzusconi, Salvimaio and Il cazzaro verde. In 2022 he devoted books to Franco Battiato and Giorgio Gaber, tied to his shows.

The social media audience

Since April 2020, during the pandemic, Scanzi has become the Italian journalist with the most social media interactions according to the Sensemakers ranking. Part of the audience at his shows comes from there, from the livestreams and videos: in the theater they find the same tone, with the long running time of the evening.

From Gaber se fosse Gaber to Ora o mai più: Scanzi in the theater

Andrea Scanzi's theater work begins in 2011 with Gaber se fosse Gaber, sponsored by the Fondazione Gaber and awarded the Premio Lunezia a Teatro in 2013, and since then it has alternated musical tributes and political satire.

The singer-songwriters

After Gaber comes, in September 2012, Le cattive strade, dedicated to Fabrizio De André. Since 2018 E pensare che c'era Giorgio Gaber has been on stage, and since 2021 E ti vengo a cercare, dedicated to Franco Battiato. It's the strand that grew out of his degree thesis on singer-songwriters.

Sports and politics

In 2016 he tours Il sogno di un'Italia, in 2017 Eroi, dedicated to 10 figures from sports. In 2018 he turns his book Renzusconi into a show, later updated and retitled Salvimaio. Ora o mai più continues this line: there is no book, but the structure is that of the performed pamphlet.

A curiosity about Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

The most theatrical curiosity concerns Scanzi's degree thesis, dedicated to singer-songwriters and titled Amici fragili, like a song by Fabrizio De André. The same title returned 20 years later on television, for the program he has hosted on Loft since 2020. And De André, in turn, was the subject of Scanzi's second theater show, Le cattive strade. The journalist who today does political satire was formed on that repertoire, and music remains an essential part of Ora o mai più too.

The second curiosity links Ambra Jovinelli to a colleague of Scanzi's. Ubaldo Pantani, who two days later, on March 25, is on stage at Teatro Brancaccio with Inimitabile, has imitated on television Marco Travaglio, editor of Il Fatto Quotidiano and author of the prefaces to more than one of Scanzi's books, such as Ve lo do io Beppe Grillo, in the 2012 edition, and Renzusconi. In the same week, a kilometer apart, the Esquiline Hill hosts the journalist and the man who imitates his editor.

The third concerns the calendar: Ora o mai più closes its tour precisely in Rome, at the end of March. A title that speaks of a last chance, placed at the end of the tour, has a logic of its own.

Teatro Ambra Jovinelli

Teatro Ambra Jovinelli was inaugurated on March 3, 1909 by the impresario Giuseppe Jovinelli and is the only theater in Rome built in the Liberty style. Today it is devoted mainly to comedy theater, with Fabrizia Pompilio as artistic director.

The facade

The project was entrusted to Ulderico Bencivenga, who took over from the first designers. The facade has a central two-story body with wide openings, crowned by a pediment with arched lines: the upper part keeps its Liberty features, while the restorations removed the plaster eagles from the cornices and the two flagpoles that rose at the top.

From the fire to the reopening

On April 29, 1982 a fire, caused by a technical malfunction, destroyed the entire structure, which was then closed and abandoned. The restoration work ended in November 2000, and on January 25, 2001 the Ambra reopened as a comedy theater, with Serena Dandini as artistic director.

The hall today

In the restoration the old hall, completely destroyed, was raised by five meters, giving up the direct access from the street and the original foyer. Underneath found room a small hall, the Piccolo Jovinelli, a bar and other rooms. For Ora o mai più the theater sells orchestra, first and second gallery, with some stool seats.

Something nobody tells you about Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

What is rarely said is that the Ambra Jovinelli price list has many limited-visibility sections: in premium orchestra, in orchestra and in the galleries. For a show made of words, reduced visibility matters less than for a musical, and the saving is five euros in the orchestra. But anyone who wants to see Scanzi's face well, which in a satire show is half the joke, is better off choosing a full-view seat.

The second thing concerns the stools. In both the first and the second gallery the price list includes stool seats, at the same price as the regular seats of the same gallery. For a long evening of monologue it's worth considering the difference in comfort before choosing.

The third concerns the content. Ora o mai più is a partisan show, and doesn't hide it: the official presentation declares the aim of defeating the government at the coming elections. Anyone going to the theater to hear an even-handed analysis will find a comic rally. Anyone who shares the premises will find a complicit hall. Anyone who doesn't, in our opinion, may find it instructive anyway, as long as they know where they are sitting.

My advice for visiting Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

My advice is to go for premium orchestra or full-visibility orchestra. The Ambra's hall is horseshoe-shaped and the galleries are held up by cast-iron columns: lovely to look at, less suited to following the expressions of the speaker. In a show that changes rhythm constantly, being in the orchestra helps you catch its shifts.

The second piece of advice is to arrive informed. Scanzi's satire feeds on the news of the previous weeks, and the text varies from one date to the next: a few days of paying attention to the papers makes the quotations and targets more recognizable.

The third concerns the time. It starts at 21:00 and the running time is not published: it's best to arrive around 20:30, because the hall is reached by climbing up from street level and the foyer fills up quickly.

Finally, for those coming from outside Rome: Termini is a quarter of an hour's walk away, and a Tuesday evening at the end of March is a good chance for a stroll between Piazza Vittorio and Santa Maria Maggiore before the show.

How to get to Ambra Jovinelli

Teatro Ambra Jovinelli is at Via Guglielmo Pepe 43, between Piazza Vittorio and Termini station: metro line A, Vittorio Emanuele stop, is the simplest option.

By metro

From the Vittorio Emanuele stop, Via Guglielmo Pepe is reached on foot in a few minutes. Alternatively get off at Termini, where lines A and B cross, and walk across the Esquiline Hill.

By train

If you arrive on a regional train you can get off at Roma Laziali, the station next to Termini, the closest to the theater.

By bus

For surface lines it's best to use the Atac route planner, which shows the stops nearest to Via Guglielmo Pepe and the Tuesday evening frequencies.

By car

In the evening street parking on the Esquiline Hill is difficult: it's best to leave the car in a parking garage around Termini or near a metro station and continue by public transport.

Another well-known fact, yet rarely cited

It's well known that Andrea Scanzi is one of the bylines of Il Fatto Quotidiano and a face of talk shows. It's less often remembered how much his work was born from music: the thesis on singer-songwriters, the role of juror at the Club Tenco, the artistic direction of the Premio Pigro dedicated to Ivan Graziani, the shows on Gaber, De André and Battiato. In December 2020 he also collaborated with Giovanni Gulino, leader of Marta sui Tubi, on a single titled Il Teatro è la mia chiesa.

A second rarely cited fact concerns sports. Before politics, Scanzi wrote for a long time about soccer, tennis and motorsports: he edited books on Roberto Baggio with Enrico Mattesini, wrote a biography of Gilles Villeneuve and a book on Marco Van Basten, Canto del cigno, with a preface by Gianni Mura. For La Stampa he was a correspondent at the motorcycle world championship. Eroi, his 2017 show, was dedicated to 10 figures from sports.

The third concerns Ambra Jovinelli: in the 1940s and 1950s the hall was also a kind of sports arena, with the ring set up for boxing meets and a very large crowd. A show the presentation calls explosive finds a fitting precedent.

The right photo to take of Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

The photo to take is the one of the Liberty-style facade, from the opposite sidewalk of Via Guglielmo Pepe, with the evening light and the poster in view. In the upper part you can still read the arched pediment and the decorations from 1909, which survived a century of transformations and the 1982 fire.

Inside, during the show, no photos or recording: out of respect for those on stage and those sitting next to you, and because in a satire monologue rhythm is everything. Before the start, if the staff allows, it's worth looking up toward the proscenium, where an inscription still reads G. Jovinelli, 1909.

The last photo is taken on the way out, toward Piazza Vittorio, with the arcades lit. At the end of March, after 23:00, the square is quiet and the gardens in the middle, with the Porta Alchemica, make an unusual night shot.

How to plan the Tuesday night of Ora o mai più

With the start at 21:00, the evening of Ora o mai più is built around the Esquiline Hill: an afternoon between Santa Maria Maggiore and Piazza Vittorio, an early dinner, the show and the return by metro or on foot toward Termini.

The afternoon

At the end of March the days are already long and the sun sets after 19:00. If you arrive early you can visit Santa Maria Maggiore and then walk down toward Piazza Vittorio, where the arcades and gardens offer an hour of quiet strolling before dinner.

If you're coming from outside Rome

Termini is a quarter of an hour's walk from the theater, Roma Laziali even closer. Anyone who has to leave the same day must do the math carefully, though: with the start at 21:00 and the running time not published, the last regional trains of the evening may leave too early. It's best to check the schedule before buying the ticket.

Getting back into the city

Metro line A at Vittorio Emanuele is close. For those heading back late, the Atac route planner shows the night lines that pass through Termini and Piazza Vittorio.

Political satire in the theater: what to expect from Ora o mai più

Ora o mai più belongs to the genre of the political satire monologue, in which a journalist or an author goes on stage alone and turns the news into a comic story: a genre that has a loyal audience in Rome, and that is at home at Ambra Jovinelli.

A text that changes

The official presentation says it plainly: the show varies from date to date, also depending on the audience's reaction. Anyone who has seen Ora o mai più in another city, in previous months, will find in Rome a recognizable structure and many new passages, updated to the March news.

The role of the audience

In a show that sets out to shake the spectators, the audience is not passive: the hall applauds, laughs, sometimes comments. It's an atmosphere closer to that of a rally than to that of a drama premiere, and it's part of the game.

The music

The big music mentioned in the presentation is not a detail. Scanzi comes from the shows on singer-songwriters, and even in a political text the soundtrack serves to change rhythm and to move from irony to emotion, as the official text promises, now hilarious, now moving.

Scanzi and Travaglio

The genre, at Il Fatto Quotidiano, has more than one performer: Marco Travaglio has been staging his recitals since 2009, produced like Ora o mai più by Loft Produzioni. The style is different, though: Travaglio works on the archive of documents, Scanzi on invective and music.

The Esquiline Hill around Ambra Jovinelli

The Esquiline Hill is the district between Termini, Santa Maria Maggiore and Porta Maggiore, which grew around Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II after the Unification of Italy.

Piazza Vittorio

Piazza Vittorio is the large arcaded square a few steps from the theater. In the gardens in the middle is the Porta Alchemica, with its enigmatic inscriptions.

The market

Not far away is the Nuovo Mercato Esquilino, with spices and products from half the world: it's a daytime market, suited to those passing through the area in the morning.

Toward Monti

Going up past Santa Maria Maggiore you reach the Monti district, with shops, small squares and places suited to an after-theater drink.

Some important events that happened here in history

The history of Ambra Jovinelli begins on March 3, 1909, when Giuseppe Jovinelli inaugurates his variety theater, bringing on stage Raffaele Viviani with his sister Luisella. In 1910 Ettore Petrolini gets his first important contract from Jovinelli himself. In the 1940s and 1950s the hall also hosts many boxing meets.

In the postwar period the theater becomes a variety cinema with the name Ambra Jovinelli. On April 29, 1982 a fire destroys the entire structure, which stays closed for years. The restoration work ends in November 2000, and on January 25, 2001 the Ambra reopens as a comedy theater, with Serena Dandini as artistic director. Today the artistic director is Fabrizia Pompilio.

For Scanzi the dates that count are others: 2011, when he arrived at Il Fatto Quotidiano and made his theater debut with Gaber se fosse Gaber, 2013, the Premio Lunezia a Teatro, 2018, the Sanremo jury. On March 23, 2027, at the Ambra, he closes the tour of his most explicitly political show.

Who has passed through Andrea Scanzi, Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli, March 23, 2027

The stage of Ambra Jovinelli has seen more than a century of Italian comedy pass. In the early years there are Raffaele Viviani and his sister Luisella, who inaugurate the theater in 1909, and Ettore Petrolini, who signs there in 1910 the contract that launches him. Rome's twentieth-century variety passed through this hall.

After the 2001 reopening the Ambra became Rome's home of comedy and satire, with the artistic direction of Serena Dandini and then of Fabrizia Pompilio. In the 2026-2027 season the schedule has already hosted, among others, Luca Bizzarri with Non hanno un dubbio and Paolo Calabresi with Tutti gli uomini che non sono.

In the ideal audience of Ora o mai più also sit the figures evoked on stage: Sandro Pertini and Enrico Berlinguer on one side, Giorgia Meloni, Ignazio La Russa and Giovanni Donzelli on the other, with Pier Paolo Pasolini serving as critical conscience. On March 23, 2027, on that stage, there is Andrea Scanzi alone.

Accessibility and practical information

After the restoration the Ambra Jovinelli hall is five meters above street level: anyone with accessibility needs should contact the theater before buying to get directions on routes and suitable seats.

With kids

Ora o mai più is a political satire show for adults. For older kids interested in current affairs, it can offer a starting point for discussion, knowing that the point of view is openly partisan.

Arriving on time

The hall is reached by climbing up from street level and the foyer fills up quickly: it's best to be in the theater at least a quarter of an hour before the start.

Choosing your seat at Ambra Jovinelli for Ora o mai più

For Ora o mai più Ambra Jovinelli sells premium orchestra, orchestra, first and second gallery, with some limited-visibility seats and some stools in the gallery: the choice changes the experience of a monologue a lot.

Orchestra

Premium orchestra at 44 euros and orchestra at 39 euros are the seats closest to the stage. For a one man show of words and music the central orchestra is the choice that, in our opinion, is worth the price difference: you catch the facial expressions, you hear the pauses, you enter the rhythm of the story.

Galleries

The first gallery at 36 euros offers an overview of the stage and the hall. The second, at 29 euros, is the cheapest option. The Ambra's galleries are held up by the original cast-iron columns, which in some side seats can reduce the view: the price list flags this with the wording limited visibility.

Limited visibility and stools

Limited-visibility seats cost a few euros less. Stools cost the same as the regular seats of the same gallery. In both cases it's best to know beforehand what you're buying, especially if the evening promises to be long.

Where to eat before or after the show

The Esquiline Hill is the right district for those who want to eat Chinese, Indian, Bengali, Ethiopian or Middle Eastern food at low prices. For a Roman trattoria it's best to head up toward Santa Maria Maggiore or move to Monti.

Before 21:00

With the start at 21:00, dinner should be moved earlier to around 19:00 or 19:30, at one of the places near the theater, or replaced by a long aperitivo.

After the show

On the way out, many Tuesday-night kitchens have already closed: in Monti, osterias and places stay open longer, a quarter of an hour's walk away.

Frequently asked questions about Ora o mai più in Rome

When is Andrea Scanzi's show in Rome?

Andrea Scanzi's Ora o mai più is at Teatro Ambra Jovinelli in Rome on Tuesday, March 23, 2027 at 21:00, at Via Guglielmo Pepe 43. It is the only Rome date and the last on the schedule published on Scanzi's website.

How much do tickets for Ora o mai più cost?

Full-price tickets for Ora o mai più at Ambra Jovinelli cost 44 euros in premium orchestra, 39 euros in orchestra, 36 euros in the first gallery and 29 euros in the second gallery, fees excluded. There are also limited-visibility and stool seats.

What is Ora o mai più about?

Ora o mai più is a political satire one man show, subtitled 10 Ways to Defeat (Maybe) Giorgia Meloni: Andrea Scanzi criticizes the government in office and urges the audience to react ahead of the coming elections, with music and changes of rhythm.

Who produces Scanzi's show?

Ora o mai più is produced by Loft Produzioni, with distribution by Epoché ArtEventi and sets by Giorgia Ricci. The date at Ambra Jovinelli is organized by Ventidieci.

What other theater shows has Andrea Scanzi done?

Andrea Scanzi has brought to the theater Gaber se fosse Gaber, Le cattive strade on De André, Il sogno di un'Italia, Eroi, Renzusconi then Salvimaio, E pensare che c'era Giorgio Gaber and E ti vengo a cercare on Franco Battiato.

How do you get to Teatro Ambra Jovinelli?

Teatro Ambra Jovinelli can be reached by metro line A, Vittorio Emanuele stop, a few minutes' walk away. From Termini, where lines A and B run, it's about a quarter of an hour on foot. For regional trains the nearest station is Roma Laziali.

The final tip on Ora o mai più

Ora o mai più is an openly partisan evening of political satire, and my advice is to go knowing that: a monologue with music, built on the news, that changes from night to night and that arrives in Rome as the last stop of the tour. Choose a full-visibility seat in the orchestra, arrive around 20:30, read the papers from the week before and plan on a stroll in Piazza Vittorio on the way out.

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