Patras Municipal and Regional Theatre

The first play was "Madame de Sade" by Yukio Mishima, directed by Maya Liberopoulou.

[1] The first, but also critically acclaimed play of the DIPETHE was Tennessee Williams's Glass Menagerie, followed by Maxim Gorky's "Petit-Bourgeois", and Carlo Goldoni's trilogy of Holidays.

Subsequent artistic directors were Nikos Armaos, Giorgos Kimoulis, Themis Moumoulidis (1999–2007).

The theatre is regularly subsidized by the Municipality of Patras and the Ministry of Culture.

Nonetheless the theatre faces long-term economic problems, in part due to the non granting of agreed subsidies from the Ministry of Culture, while its second stage the "Epikentro" was demolished in view of the Patras 2006 Cultural Capital of Europe, without being replaced by a new theatre.