The "Teatro di Cestello" run by the permanent theater company "Il Cenacolo dei Giovani" is today, albeit within its limits, one of the few production companies in the city of culture. Born in the early last century as a small parish hall, it closed during the war reopened only in the late fifties with the larger room and equipped at the time of "comfortable" in metal chairs and mou still exist as artifacts in the theater foyer. Reopened to give space to the vernacular theater companies of the district of San Frediano, is devastated during the flood of 1966 and will be closed for nearly 20 anni.Nel 1985 by Nardini Vittorio reopens under the direction of Valentino Lords. Since then the theater has a continuous growth of popolarità.Il theater is renewed in 2007 and thanks to the directors that have come and gone in recent years: Ancillotti, Rare, Griffins, hosted the Florence International Theatre Company, brings the Cinema with dedicated days a great Italian directors, hosts artists, musicians and work in collaboration with the "Opera da Camera di Firenze" thus increasing the level of relationships with many companies and offering a small stage but important for its central location in the city.