Short Theatre is a multidisciplinary festival active in Rome since 2006. Short Theatre engages the changing landscape of national and international contemporary performing arts, with a layered program made of performances, installations, talks, lectures, workshops, concerts and DJ sets. The festival facilitates an open environment for research and experimentation, one in which to develop new forms of production and circulation of arts-related knowledge, offering established and emerging artists a space and a time in which to meet, get to know each other, and exchange.

Since 2025 Short Theatre is co-directed by Silvia Bottiroli, Silvia Calderoni, Ilenia Caleo and Michele Di Stefano in the attempt of practicing collective curation as an artistic and political gesture and of nourishing the possibilities of experience that the festival may offer to artists, visitors and communities.

Short Theatre adopts tools and good practice in accordance with the objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda, for the reduction of its environmental impact and the promotion of inclusiveness, training, growth and innovation.