Jean-Paul Sartre News

 FUSION THEATRE NYC has announced a new production scheduled to stream this month. 'No Exit' is the play penned by the father of Existentialist philosophy, Jean Paul Sartre. It was first performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris as a one-act play, to ensure that theater goers could get home before curfew.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) lamentan el deceso del primer actor Ricardo Blume,  ocurrido este viernes a los 87 años de edad, en la ciudad de Querétaro. 

Considerado por Octavio Paz “como uno de los poetas más complejos”, el escritor mexicano Jaime Augusto Shelley falleció este día en la Ciudad de México a los 83 años de edad. 

If you thought lockdown was hell, wait until you experience Hell in its truest form, as Mid-World Players brings Jean-Paul Sartre's NO EXIT into the 'comfort' of your own home. Immerse yourself into a world, much like your own, where no end is in sight.

Experience Theatre Project, in artistic association with Lacy Productions, is proud to introduce a new, virtual, immersive salon called Le Chat Noir Moderne, or a?oeThe Modern Black Cat,a?? a contemporary take on the classic Parisian entertainment establishment Le Chat Noir.

Experience Theatre Project, in artistic association with Lacy Productions, is proud to introduce a new, unique online nightclub called Le Chat Noir Moderne, or a?oeThe Modern Black Cat,a?? a contemporary take on the classic Parisian entertainment establishment Le Chat Noir. 

Jonathan Taylor Productions announces Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectable Prostitute directed by Lisa Forrell. The production opens at The Playground Theatre on 21 May, with previews from 20 May, and runs until 6 June.

The Playground Theatre has announced its early Summer season with three very different shows, traveling from ancient Greece, to 1940s America, to 1980s Paris. The season opens with Fragments, which pieces together a long-lost Euripides play from pieces of papyrus, followed by The Respectable Prostitute, where powerful people spread false truths for their personal ambition and closes with Blue Electric directed by Hugh Hudson, who directed the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

'No Exit' itself is a wonderful source material, and it was intriguing to hear Live Garra Theatre's plans to update and add an escape room element to the famous play. I walked into this show excited to see a new, modern twist on one of my favourite plays. Instead, I walked out incredibly disappointed.

Chennai's best-loved English-theatre actor Ajit Chitturi, founder of thespian en, will perform The Journey at Akshara Theatre on November 3 at 7pm. The Journey is a solo tour-de-force performance that takes us through the highlights of thespian en's repertoire of 25 years.

El 22 de octubre se cumplen nueve años de la muerte del poeta, ensayista, crítico, traductor, editor, corrector y tipógrafo nayarita Alí Chumacero, quien dijo: “Como la estatua dueña de su espacio, asentada en la quietud, la poesía desvanece el misterio de la desaparición”.

The newly formed Navigation Theatre Company is kicking off the 2019-20 season dedicated to producing local playwrights with a presentation of Buffalo-based writer Mark Humphrey's 'The Kindness of Strangers'. In association with the Compass Performing Arts Center, this world debut opens on October 24th and runs to November 16th. Showtimes are 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays, 5 pm on Saturdays. There will be a special 'Industry Night' on November 16th at 8 pm. Ticket prices are $20 GA/$15 Student, Military and Industry. For online ticket information visit https://kindnessofstrangers.bpt.me/ or call the box office at 716-697-0837.

“Si mi papá viviera, ya estaría dando lata preguntando si todo estaba listo para su fiesta de cumpleaños”, comentó Luis Chumacero, hijo de Alí, quien el 9 de julio cumpliría 101 años de edad.

La Secretaría de Cultura, a través del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, y el Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, presentan la exposición Francisco Icaza. Me quiero ir al mar, la cual podrá visitarse del 14 de junio al 8 de septiembre del presente año en las cuatro salas del segundo piso del recinto del INBAL.

Taking the lead in Exchange Theatre's thrilling political adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's classic The Flies is French actress Meena Rayann (Game of Thrones, HBO; Hilda, Odds On Productions 2019; multi-award winning No Love Lost, Intelligent Ink Films) as the downtrodden Electra and in his professional debut Samy Elkhatib will appear as vengeful brother Orestes.

ITA was the first to acquire the rights to Sartre's script The Freud Scenario. Freud will be staged by actors from FC Bergman and the ITA ensemble. FC Bergman is handling the adaptation. French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre wrote The Freud Scenario at the end of the 1950s, at the request of Hollywood director John Huston. However, the two got into an argument and since then, the extensive script has remained untouched. Freud will premiere at International Theatre Amsterdam on Sunday 22 September 2019. The performance will then travel to Antwerp. It is a collaboration between International Theater Amsterdam and Toneelhuis.

Exchange Theatre return to London this June with their tenth anniversary revival of Jean-Paul Sartre's rebellious and highly political play The Flies. Sartre's thriller re-imagines the Greek tragedy of Electra and Orestes, exploring the complexities of human values in a period of political turbulence.

The Actors' Gang presents VIOLENCE: The Misadventures of Spike Spangle, Farmer, written by The Actors' Gang Artistic Director Tim Robbins and Adam Simon and directed by Bob Turton, who was most recently seen at The Actors' Gang as "The Maniac" in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. This no-holds barred satire of militarism and media manipulation begins performances May 2nd (Press Opening May 11th at 8:00pm) and will run Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, through June 22nd. 

In Los Angeles, a $4,000,000 car roaring past hungry, homeless people is not a rare sight - for most people, it is simply a fact of life. We are a society in which the dichotomy of ultra-wealthy and absolutely-destitute is accepted, even to the brink of resenting poor and idolizing rich.

Fusion Theatre (www.fusiontheatrenyc.com) will mount an opera-charged version of Jean-Paul Sartre's 'No Exit,' directed by Eilin O'Dea, Artistic Director, from April 5 to 25 as the opening production of a new Off-off Broadway venue, The Theater at 244, located at 244 West 54th Street, 10th floor.