Zagreb Youth Theatre, placed at Teslina 7, in the very center of the city of Zagreb, is a part of multimedia youth center, together with Radio 101, Youth television, and several popular places for the Zagreb youth gatherings. As one of the oldest theatres of this kind, it is considered to be the cradle of the Croatian theatre, since many generations of actors and people in culture began here in the Youth Studio, today known as ZYT College.

When it comes to repertoire, ZYT is a very specific theatre since the ensemble has so far performed, with equal success, children’s plays and highly artistic performances of Croatian and world literature for the most demanding audiences. So it is clear that ZYT performs successfully not only it primary activity as a theatre, but also achieves a wider social task to educate children and youth. With all of it’s materially measurable advantages, one of the main characteristics of Zagreb Youth Theatre is the image it holds in the public eye. Famous plays directed by famous directors, carefully and in a contemporary manner arranged program and numerous initiatives wich have greatly enriched the cultural content that Zagreb can offer

to the public eye, are just some of the reasons why the ZYT constantly draws and thrills audiences of all generations. A particularily successfull performances in the program

of ZYT include: L. N. Tolstoy Anna Karenina directed by Vasily Senin, H. C. Andersen The Little Mermaid directed by Robert Waltl, The Next Door directed by Rene Medvešek, B. Srbljanovic Grasshoppers directed by Janusz Kica, On the Other Side directed by Nataša Rajković i Bobo Jelčić. R.Vitrac Victor or the Children Take Over directed by Haris Pasovic, Professor Balthazar, directed Krešimir Dolenčić, A.P. Tchekov Seagull directed by Vasiliy Seni, Ivana Sajko Medea/Women Bomb/Europe directed by Ivana Sajko, Dora Ruzdjak and Franka Perkovic, F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby, directed by Ivica Buljan, I. Kusan Koko in Paris directed by Ivica Boban, J. directed by Dino Mustafic, The best Soup! The Best Soup! directed by Rene Medvesek, Jelena Kovacic Excuse me,  can I tell you … ? directed by Anica Tomic, J. Swift Gulliver’s Travels directed by Oliver Frljic, M. Drzic/P. Zoranic Voices from the Mountains directed by Rene Medvesek, G. Granouillet L’Envolée, directed by Jean-Claude Berutti, Nina Mitrovic, Ivan Vidic, Filip Sovagovic, Damir Karakas, Igor Rajki Zagreb Pentagram directed by Paolo Magelli, Tena Stivicic Seven Days in Zagreb directed by Tijana Zinajic. Over the last four years ZYT has received 50 awards at the national and international theatre festivals in Brussels, Berlin, Frieburg, Nitra, Moscow, Heildeberg, Wiesbaden, Plzen, Varna, Helsinki, Vienna, Beograd, Skopje, Ljubljana ...

„Sunday Matinees“ is a project of the theatre launched in January of 2006. This is a creative and educative program which enables children to participate, not only in the regular theatre plays, but in a string of creative dance, puppet and drama classes and workshops, guided by ZYT pedagogues. Because of the great interest of the children and their parents we are continuing with the program even more intensive in the upcoming season. ZYT began with the European Theatre Project in January 2006 and continues regularily in the upcoming season as we wish to enable the Zagreb audience to follow all the important foreign theatre

achievements outside the programs of festivals (which is always limited by the program concept). This project has been recognized as a long awaited theatre project and it has gained the status of an event not to be missed. As a part of the project we have by now introduced the following theatres: Theatre Metastatio from Prato, Space Productions Sarajevo, Theatre Seindendan from Tokyo, Slovenian National Theatre from Nova Gorica, Jugoslavian Drama Theatre from Belgrade, Ballet Preljocaj from Paris, Slovenian theatre from Trieste, theatre group Farm in the Cave from Prague, En Knap Group from Ljubljana, Slovenian Youth Theatre from Ljubljana, dance group Inbal Pinto from Tel Aviv, Royal Flemish Theatre from

Bruxelles and Theatre from Heildeberg, Theatre an der Parkaue from Berlin. In 2007 Zagreb Youth Theatre co-operated with theatre of Jan Fabre in the performance Requiem for a Metamorphoses,  which was presented at the Salzburg Festival and in 2008 with the same theatre co-produced the performance of Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day, which had the opening night at Avignon festival. The ZYT produced together with La Commedie de Saint Etienne performance L’Envolee andit was presented at the end of 2008 in Zagreb and in 2009