The excavations of 2007 signed the first season of investigations undertaken in the theatre of the ancient city of Apolonia. The investigations which were directed by a joint German-Albanian team were located in the northern part of the theatre with the purpose of documenting the entire extension of the scaena, as well as in the southeastern side for identifying the analemma wall and the northern entrance of the Hellenistic and Roman theatre. Electromagnetic and geo- penetrating radar investigations were also carried out in the area around the monument, and the results obtained were useful for planning future field research.
The stratigraphic data and the architectonic elements revealed during the excavations of the last century, alongside with the new materials will become part of a newly-created unique recording system. The excavations in the seven opened test pits (I-VII) uncovered several construction phases of the theatre. Traces of the northern wall of the scaena were revealed in sondages II – III of the excavations. These remains relate to the first phase of construction of the theatre during the Hellenistic period, and indicate a wider extension of the scaena toward the north than what has been previously assumed. The excavation in sondages V-VII enabled us to identify the first traces of the northern analemma and the northeastern entrance to the theatre. A similar stratigraphic sequence consisting of abundant ceramic and glass materials of the Roman period (1st Century BC to the 3rd AD) was noted in all the excavated trenches.
However, the results of this season did not provide any further information regarding the layout, plan and the architectonic elements of the theatre throughout the two main phases of construction, or the exact date and reasons that lead to the theatre reconstruction, and later to its abandonment.