Photos: KINKY BOOTS First-Ever French Production Brussels
by BWW News Desk - November 28, 2025
You can now get a first look at photos of the first-ever French adaptation of Kinky Boots in Brussels, Belgium. Inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots tells the young heir to a failing shoe factory, and Lola, a confident drag queen.
by BWW News Desk - November 28, 2025
You can now get a first look at photos of the first-ever French adaptation of Kinky Boots in Brussels, Belgium. Inspired by a true story, Kinky Boots tells the young heir to a failing shoe factory, and Lola, a confident drag queen.
Pianist Yuja Wang's PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN IMMERSIVE ODYSSEY is Now at Philharmonie de Paris
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2025
A bold reimagining of the classical concert experience has made its world premiere at Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris. Learn more about the event here!
by BWW News Desk - November 24, 2025
A bold reimagining of the classical concert experience has made its world premiere at Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris. Learn more about the event here!
Cast Set For Sting-Led THE LAST SHIP in Amsterdam, Paris, and Brisbane
by BWW News Desk - November 07, 2025
Seventeen-time Grammy Award winning artist Sting will perform in his musical, The Last Ship, in Amsterdam, Brisbane and Paris. Now, additional casting has been announced for the production.
by BWW News Desk - November 07, 2025
Seventeen-time Grammy Award winning artist Sting will perform in his musical, The Last Ship, in Amsterdam, Brisbane and Paris. Now, additional casting has been announced for the production.
Review: LE FANTÔME DE L'OPÉRA at Théâtre Antoine
by Patrick Honoré - October 27, 2025
Just days after its October 22nd 2025 premiere at Paris's Théâtre Antoine, Benoît Solès's bold French adaptation of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra has already sparked a whirlwind of reactions.
by Patrick Honoré - October 27, 2025
Just days after its October 22nd 2025 premiere at Paris's Théâtre Antoine, Benoît Solès's bold French adaptation of Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra has already sparked a whirlwind of reactions.
Pianist Yuja Wang’s Immersive Performance Installation Comes to Philharmonie de Paris
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2025
A bold reimagining of the classical concert experience makes its world premiere this November at Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris.
by BWW News Desk - October 27, 2025
A bold reimagining of the classical concert experience makes its world premiere this November at Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris.
Review: THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT at Théâtre Du Lido
by Patrick Honoré - October 22, 2025
From Cherbourg to Rochefort: completing Demy's dream trilogy, The Young Girls of Rochefort soars on stage in Paris.
by Patrick Honoré - October 22, 2025
From Cherbourg to Rochefort: completing Demy's dream trilogy, The Young Girls of Rochefort soars on stage in Paris.
Review: DEAR EVAN HANSEN at Théâtre de La Madeleine
by Patrick Honoré - October 19, 2025
The French premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at the Théâtre de la Madeleine on 10 October 2025 marks an accomplished and thoughtful introduction of the Tony Award–winning musical to Parisian audiences.
by Patrick Honoré - October 19, 2025
The French premiere of Dear Evan Hansen at the Théâtre de la Madeleine on 10 October 2025 marks an accomplished and thoughtful introduction of the Tony Award–winning musical to Parisian audiences.
Review: THE PRODUCERS at Théâtre De Paris
by Patrick Honoré - October 13, 2025
A Triumphant Return: 'Les Producteurs' Lights Up Théâtre de Paris Once More. Oh, what a delight it is to dive back into the uproarious world of Mel Brooks' The Producers—or as the French so aptly title it, Les Producteurs—at Théâtre de Paris-Salle Réjane, running from September 25 2025 to January 11 2026.
by Patrick Honoré - October 13, 2025
A Triumphant Return: 'Les Producteurs' Lights Up Théâtre de Paris Once More. Oh, what a delight it is to dive back into the uproarious world of Mel Brooks' The Producers—or as the French so aptly title it, Les Producteurs—at Théâtre de Paris-Salle Réjane, running from September 25 2025 to January 11 2026.
AIDA is Now Playing at the Paris Opera
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2025
Tel est le dilemme d’Aida, princesse éthiopienne réduite en esclavage en Égypte, confrontée de surcroît à la rivalité d’Amneris, la fille du pharaon, qui aime le même homme qu’elle, Radamès.
by BWW News Desk - September 30, 2025
Tel est le dilemme d’Aida, princesse éthiopienne réduite en esclavage en Égypte, confrontée de surcroît à la rivalité d’Amneris, la fille du pharaon, qui aime le même homme qu’elle, Radamès.
gaudanse to Perform at FUSA Dance Festival in Paris This September
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2025
gaudanse will perform mamihlapinatapai, choreographed by Imani Gaudin, at the FUSA Dance Festival in Paris on September 19, 2025. Presented at the Fondation des États-Unis, the interdisciplinary collective joins an international lineup celebrating the exchange between French and American contemporary dance.
by BWW News Desk - September 18, 2025
gaudanse will perform mamihlapinatapai, choreographed by Imani Gaudin, at the FUSA Dance Festival in Paris on September 19, 2025. Presented at the Fondation des États-Unis, the interdisciplinary collective joins an international lineup celebrating the exchange between French and American contemporary dance.
ROOTS Comes to the Paris Opera in October
by BWW News Desk - September 17, 2025
Entitled Roots, this programme explores those of George Balanchine who, in Theme and Variations, created in 1947 in New York, adopted Tchaikovsky’s music to pay homage to the Russian academic tradition that nurtured him.
by BWW News Desk - September 17, 2025
Entitled Roots, this programme explores those of George Balanchine who, in Theme and Variations, created in 1947 in New York, adopted Tchaikovsky’s music to pay homage to the Russian academic tradition that nurtured him.
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Announces European Premiere & French Tour
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2025
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (US/Palestine) and Au Contraire Productions (France) will bring their acclaimed production Gathering to France this fall, with performances across Nouvelle-Aquitaine from October 8 through November 27, 2025.
by BWW News Desk - September 08, 2025
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (US/Palestine) and Au Contraire Productions (France) will bring their acclaimed production Gathering to France this fall, with performances across Nouvelle-Aquitaine from October 8 through November 27, 2025.
Review: REBECCA at Château Du Karreveld
by Patrick Honoré - August 26, 2025
At Brussels’ enchanting Château du Karreveld, Festival Bruxellons! delivers a climatic French-language premiere of Rebecca, a romantic thriller musical that easily surpasses the English-language London production with its breathtaking spectacle, including the audacious use of real fire on stage.
by Patrick Honoré - August 26, 2025
At Brussels’ enchanting Château du Karreveld, Festival Bruxellons! delivers a climatic French-language premiere of Rebecca, a romantic thriller musical that easily surpasses the English-language London production with its breathtaking spectacle, including the audacious use of real fire on stage.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LA DISTANCE By Tiago Rodrigues
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
A two-person epistolary drama between a father and daughter - On the surface, this sounds like the kind of conventional, writer-driven theatre that the Festival d’Avignon seeks to disrupt. Yet, coming from the mind of Tiago Rodrigues, La Distance becomes a conduit for deeper reflections on memory, family, and the social questions that linger in their wake.
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
A two-person epistolary drama between a father and daughter - On the surface, this sounds like the kind of conventional, writer-driven theatre that the Festival d’Avignon seeks to disrupt. Yet, coming from the mind of Tiago Rodrigues, La Distance becomes a conduit for deeper reflections on memory, family, and the social questions that linger in their wake.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents GAHUGU GATO By Dida Nibagwire and Frédéric Fisbach
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
Through music, dance, and storytelling in the Festival d’Avignon’s beautiful Cloître des Célestins, a company of performers brings to life the story of a family. Draped in Eloé Level’s warm sepia lighting and shaded by the Cloître’s two trees, the ensemble transports us to the nostalgic, fractured memories of a childhood marked by exile, community, and the looming shadow of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies: the Rwandan Genocide. Adapted from Gaël Faye’s novel, Gahugu Gato (Little Country) offers a gentle telling of a harrowing history.
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
Through music, dance, and storytelling in the Festival d’Avignon’s beautiful Cloître des Célestins, a company of performers brings to life the story of a family. Draped in Eloé Level’s warm sepia lighting and shaded by the Cloître’s two trees, the ensemble transports us to the nostalgic, fractured memories of a childhood marked by exile, community, and the looming shadow of one of the 20th century’s greatest tragedies: the Rwandan Genocide. Adapted from Gaël Faye’s novel, Gahugu Gato (Little Country) offers a gentle telling of a harrowing history.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents TAIRE By Tamara Al Saadi
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
This protest forms the foundation of childhood life. And they’re right. People under the age of 18 endure indignities that would push most adults to their limits. But what happens when we move from “not fair” to injustice?
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
This protest forms the foundation of childhood life. And they’re right. People under the age of 18 endure indignities that would push most adults to their limits. But what happens when we move from “not fair” to injustice?
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LES INCRÉDULES By Samuel Achache
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
Currently onstage at the Festival d’Avignon’s restored Opéra Grand Avignon is, much to my astonishment, an opera. Les Incrédules, directed by Samuel Achache, with compositions by Florent Hubert and Antonin-Tri Hoang and a libretto by Achache and Sarah Le Picard, is a surreal meditation on miracles.
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
Currently onstage at the Festival d’Avignon’s restored Opéra Grand Avignon is, much to my astonishment, an opera. Les Incrédules, directed by Samuel Achache, with compositions by Florent Hubert and Antonin-Tri Hoang and a libretto by Achache and Sarah Le Picard, is a surreal meditation on miracles.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents YES DADDY By Bashar Murkus and Khulood Basel
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
The performances of this year’s Festival d’Avignon trended towards the intimate and the documentarian. With videos and testimonies, projects aimed to establish a personal connection with real world subjects.
by Wesley Doucette - July 28, 2025
The performances of this year’s Festival d’Avignon trended towards the intimate and the documentarian. With videos and testimonies, projects aimed to establish a personal connection with real world subjects.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SOMMET By Christoph Marthaler
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Duri Bischoff’s set for Christoph Marthaler’s Le Sommet, now playing at the Festival d’Avignon’s FabricA theatre, presents a photorealistic cross-section of a chalet. Illuminated by cool fluorescent light, the interior is constructed from natural, practical materials. Rising incongruously from the center of the chalet is a large stone wave. Upstage center, a dumbwaiter dings.
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Duri Bischoff’s set for Christoph Marthaler’s Le Sommet, now playing at the Festival d’Avignon’s FabricA theatre, presents a photorealistic cross-section of a chalet. Illuminated by cool fluorescent light, the interior is constructed from natural, practical materials. Rising incongruously from the center of the chalet is a large stone wave. Upstage center, a dumbwaiter dings.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE CANARD SAUVAGE By Thomas Ostermeier
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Tragedy doesn’t hinge on a twist but on a reversal or, as the Greeks termed it, a peripeteia. At the start of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, the characters have already endured a series of such reversals. The play is structured less as a tragedy than as its postmortem. What happens after the cataclysm?
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Tragedy doesn’t hinge on a twist but on a reversal or, as the Greeks termed it, a peripeteia. At the start of Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, the characters have already endured a series of such reversals. The play is structured less as a tragedy than as its postmortem. What happens after the cataclysm?
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LES PERSES By Gwenaël Morin
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
From 2023 to 2026, Festival d’Avignon artistic director Tiago Rodrigues has invited director Gwenaël Morin to stage an annual production under the banner Démonter Les Remparts Pour Finir Le Pont / Dismantle the Walls to Finish the Bridge.
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
From 2023 to 2026, Festival d’Avignon artistic director Tiago Rodrigues has invited director Gwenaël Morin to stage an annual production under the banner Démonter Les Remparts Pour Finir Le Pont / Dismantle the Walls to Finish the Bridge.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE PROCÈS PELICOT By Milo Rau
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Les Amazones d’Avignon, a local feminist collective, distributed flyers to audience members entering the Cloître des Carmes for Milo Rau’s Le Procès Pelicot. Their protest was not just against their exclusion from the project, but also against the broader marginalization of militant feminists from public discourse.
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Les Amazones d’Avignon, a local feminist collective, distributed flyers to audience members entering the Cloître des Carmes for Milo Rau’s Le Procès Pelicot. Their protest was not just against their exclusion from the project, but also against the broader marginalization of militant feminists from public discourse.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE SOULIER DE SATIN By La Comédie Française
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Since its founding in 1947, only a handful of performances at the Festival d’Avignon have achieved mythic status. These productions offer their audiences bragging rights for life as “you had to be there” events.
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
Since its founding in 1947, only a handful of performances at the Festival d’Avignon have achieved mythic status. These productions offer their audiences bragging rights for life as “you had to be there” events.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BREL By Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Solal Mariotte
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
I should perhaps begin with a confession: I don’t know the work of Jacques Brel. In continental Europe, this borders on impossibility, akin to not knowing Elvis in America.
by Wesley Doucette - July 21, 2025
I should perhaps begin with a confession: I don’t know the work of Jacques Brel. In continental Europe, this borders on impossibility, akin to not knowing Elvis in America.
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents REENCANTO By Mayra Andrade
by Wesley Doucette - July 14, 2025
The impulse with Avignon’s Cour d’Honneur is to go big. Since the Festival’s inception in 1947, artists have attempted to match the scale of the 30-meter wall behind them. It’s a gamble, but when it works, it’s mesmerizing. For her concert reEncanto, singer Mayra Andrade instead tamed the Cour d’Honneur into an intimate space.
by Wesley Doucette - July 14, 2025
The impulse with Avignon’s Cour d’Honneur is to go big. Since the Festival’s inception in 1947, artists have attempted to match the scale of the 30-meter wall behind them. It’s a gamble, but when it works, it’s mesmerizing. For her concert reEncanto, singer Mayra Andrade instead tamed the Cour d’Honneur into an intimate space.
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