The Trianon Theater has been attached by creditors. The rough road continues for this venue originally opened a century ago to showcase local playwrights, actors and musicians. The Trianon opened in 1911 in a traditional part of town, Piazza Calenda, at the extreme eastern edge of the old historic center of Naples, as seen by the presence in the square of an excavated portion of the ancient Greek eastern wall of the city. In modern terms, it is only a block away from Piazza Garibaldi and the main train station.

The Trianon thrived during the great age of vaudeville and then survived for a while as motion pictures swiftly took over show business. Like many theaters of its kind throughout the world, it finally closed and was converted into a cinema in 1947. It finally reopened in 2003, dedicated to its original purpose. It has an impressive program of traditional Neapolitan plays and musicals, an art gallery, and very good acoustics.

Recently, the theater was renamed the "Trianon Viviani" in honor of Raffaele Viviani, the Neapolitan playwright, and Nino D’Angelo, noted actor and singer-songwriter, took over as artistic director. The theater has 4,000 paid subscribers. Generally speaking, the Trianon Viviani has been very successful in bringing a sense of social normalcy to a very difficult part of the city. It has been a light in that part of town— Forcella. If the financial problems are not resolved and the theater closes, besides putting the actors and stage hands in the company out of work, that light will go out, and that would be a shame.