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The latest reviews and critic recommendations from France.

BWW Review: FASHION FREAK SHOW at Folies Bergère

BWW Review: FASHION FREAK SHOW at Folies Bergère

by Patrick Honoré — December 11, 2018

Jean-Paul Gaultier, the man with the most famous sailor shirt in the world, offers fans a first-time review, halfway between a musical review and a fashion show, as exuberant as it is provocative, based on his many lives.

BWW Review: READING: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN at Alhambra Theater

BWW Review: READING: KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN at Alhambra Theater

by Patrick Honoré — December 10, 2018

More than seven years after his first public reading at the now sadly gone 20eme Theater in Paris, the French adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman is still struggling to find a French producer despite the success it met with in the profession at the time and again at subsequent readings at the Alh

BWW Review: PEAU D'ÂNE at Marigny

BWW Review: PEAU D'ÂNE at Marigny

by Patrick Honoré — December 10, 2018

After five years of renovations, The Marigny Theater reopens in style, with an enchanted but not always so enchanting musical adaptation of Jacques Demy's popular film Donkeyskin (Peau d'Âne), best remembered for the songs of legendary film composer Michel Legrand.

BWW Review: CHICAGO at Mogador Theatre

BWW Review: CHICAGO at Mogador Theatre

by Alan Henry — October 25, 2018

Though the French public is more familiar with Chicago through the Rob Marshall movie of 2002, there has already been a French-language version at the Casino de Paris in 2004, but it actually came from Canada as part of an international tour.

BWW Review: WE WILL ROCK YOU at Casino De Paris

BWW Review: WE WILL ROCK YOU at Casino De Paris

by Patrick Honoré — October 15, 2018

We Will Rock You, originally produced by Robert De Niro and written by Ben Elton, who, building on Queen's repertoire, collaborated with the remaining members of the group roger Taylor and Brian May, was one of the first highly successful jukebox musicals.

BWW Review: CABARET / KABARETT at Théâtre De Poche

BWW Review: CABARET / KABARETT at Théâtre De Poche

by Patrick Honoré — August 8, 2018

The shadows of Kurt Weil, Kander and Ebb, and Bob Fosse are hanging high over the early summer theater season in Paris with two exceptional productions, Berlin Kabarett at the Theatre de Poche Montparnasse, May 24th - July 15th, and the ECM presentation of Willkommen im Cabaret at the Theatre des Va

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