This exhibition covers, through several kinds of materials (manuscripts, photographs, drawings, stage models, stage costumes, images in motion, props, posters, personal objects, painting, sculpture), the most important phases in the creation of a show, each corresponding in turn to the most important nuclei which form the collections in the Museu National do Teatro – text, actors, theatre buildings, costume designs and stage costumes, stage designs and scenography, backstage, music, publicity and memorabilia.