Review: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN at Le Théâtre Du Lido
Robert Carsen turns the Lido’s cabaret heritage into a theatrical advantage, creating the most convincing production yet of its musical-theatre era.
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Review: JOHN & JEN at La Grange at Bruxellons!
Tucked into La Grange's intimate corner of Bruxellons, Andrew Lippa's near-sung-through two-hander proves a musical can carry real psychological weight.
Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal
A brilliantly cast, beautifully judged French production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, where British manners, French theatrical tradition and comic murder collide at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE PAS DU MONDE By Collectif XY
Some festivals go out with a whimper.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MUETTE By Boris Charmatz
Boris Charmatz dances with discomfort.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents CASTING LEAR By Andrea Jiménez
What better way to close out the Festival d'Avignon than with a love letter to the theatre? At the conclusion of Casting Lear, now performing at the Opéra Grand Avignon as part of the Festival, creator and performer André Jiménez makes an impassioned case for the art form.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UN PROCÈS By Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura
In Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura's Un Procès Après l'Ennemi du Peuple, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel, Thomas Stockmann finally gets his day in court.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents NEIGE, NEIGE, NEIGE By Lee Jaram
With its generous public funding for culture, France's Festival d'Avignon can produce theatrical spectacles on an extraordinary scale.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BUNKER By Marion Siéfert et Matthieu Bareyre
In his podcast, political commentator Ezra Klein has examined a curious conundrum within the modern elite: the pursuit of extraordinary qualities divorced from their original purpose.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents THE LAST HAMLET By Ben Duke
In a BBC interview, famed director Katie Mitchell calls for fewer productions of Hamlet.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents TERCES By Johann de Guillerm
Across the Rhône from Avignon, in the picturesque town of Villeneuve, sits Villeneuve en Scène.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BÂTIR By Salim Djaferi and Clément Papachristou
Some performances in Avignon require me to put on my Euro-goggles.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents 1,2,3 POQUELIN By tg STAN
Molière is a surprising figure to hold such a central position in French culture.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents CHE DOLORE TERRIBLE È L'AMORE By Daria Deflorian
A friendship lies at the heart of Nobel laureate Han Kang’s acclaimed 2021 novel We Do Not Part.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents THÉSÉE, SA VIE NOUVELLE By Valérie Dréville and Guy Cassiers
The accumulation of trauma over generations doesn’t dissipate.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents HOW ROMANTIC By Katerina Andreou & Carte Blanche
In America, the dance marathon occupies a peculiar place in the cultural imagination.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MON FRÈRE By François Gremaud
Some performances leave their audience behind, plunging them into an unfamiliar thematic abyss.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents GROWING PIECE By Madeleine Fournier
In a Festival of sweeping epics, intimate works can easily get lost in the shuffle.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents TRILOGIA CADELA FORÇA By Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo
Contrary to the place critics occupy in the cultural imagination, I dread the prospect of an artist reading a negative review I have written.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents NOUS OU LE PARADOXE DU HÉRISSON By Muriel Imbach
What are the binds that tie us? That's the question posed by Muriel Imbach's delightful intergenerational work Nous ou Le Paradoxe du Hérisson, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Théâtre Benoît XII.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents L'HORS PRÉSENCE... By Tiphaine Raffier
There comes a moment in every Festival d’Avignon when I yearn for convention.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UMA LUZ CORDIAL By Carolina Bianchi and Cara de Cavalo
In his essay 'Problems of the Theatre,' German playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt argues that poetry should be made with the stage, not merely written for it or placed on it.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents SILENCE By Lucie Antunes and Mathilde Monnier
Silence, now performing at the Festival d’Avignon’s Carrière de Boulbon, invites audiences into something approaching the Dionysian.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents ONE DEGREE CELSIUS By Sung Im Her
When was the last time a piece of concert dance made you yell, “Hell yeah!”? For me, it was Sung Im Her’s 1 Degree Celsius at the Festival d’Avignon’s Cour du Lycée Saint-Joseph.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents ISLAND STORY By Kyung-Sung Lee
The beautiful island of Jeju lies in the Korean Strait some fifty miles south of the Korean Peninsula.
