The theatre in Apiro, built in 1873 on a plan by the architect Francesco Scoccianti, is housed inside a private palace with a 16^th century Baroque style façade which notably includes fine decorations on the main doorway and the windows. The interior structure, in wood and stone, has a horseshoe plan with two tiers of boxes divided by pillars and an upper gallery or gods, connected by an 18^th century staircase. The parapets of the boxes and the gods are embellished with simple imagery produced in red and green tempera on a pink background. The ceiling over the stalls is likewise decorated in tempera with a fresco of an artificial crossbow in marble, against a sky with clouds. There is a central ceiling rose in painted wood surrounded by roundels depicting famous composers alternated with cherubs, muses and floral motifs. On the lowered proscenium arch is the name of the theatre, today named after the literary scholar Giovanni Mestica whose portrait in painted cloth can be seen on the proscenium valance.