Most times in Avignon, when a work is called something ominous like Blood, Bones, or, as is the case for Sophie Linsmaux and Aurelio Mergola's new work, Flesh, the worst is to be expected.
People often describe the imagination of a child as one of wonder or sweet innocence.
The text of Una Imagen Interior, a production by Spanish company El Conde De Torrefiel now in performance at Vedène's Autre Scène du Grand Avignon, is relegated to a bilingual surtitle board.
Seated in the middle of a meters long bench in Avignon's Cour d'Honneur, Goska Isphording whirls through compositions on the harpsichord in front of her.
Hanane Hajj Ali considers a lot when she jogs through her home city of Beirut.
Eulogies, obituaries, and post-mortems.
The classic elements to create an effective magical illusion are smoke and mirrors.
In Avignon's 'other theatre', a purpose built space some miles out of the city center, Bashar Murkus presents his new dance theatre piece Milk.
If this Avignon season's other marathon project, the 13-hour Nid de Cendres, calls to mind a jewel box, Ma Jeunesse Exaltée calls to mind bathroom stall graffiti.
'Who's in charge here?' seems to be the question ringing though Anne Théron's powerful production of Tiago Rodrigues's Iphigénie, currently residing in Avignon's beautifully restored opera house.
It is clear that Marie Vialle finds the story of Simon Pease Cheney compelling.
One possible translation of the city name 'Avignon' would be 'The Windy City.
What if Philip Glass led The Ramones? This is as good an introduction as any to Miet Warlop's One Song, which recently premiered in the Festival d'Avignon's Cour du Lycée Saint Joseph.
When it was announced that the 2022 Festival d'Avignon season would be headed by an adaptation of Chekhov in La Cour d'Honneur, I was skeptical.
While describing the marginalization of theatre artists in early Christian society my theatre history professor once said, 'It must be a kind of witchcraft or at least magic.
What did our critic think of LOVE SONGE THÉRAPIE at Lucernaire?
What did our critic think of JE VAIS T'AIMER at La Seine Musicale? Originally set to open in fall 2021, the Michel Sardou juke-box musical is the first French big spectacular to hit the capital since Covid.
What did our critic think of LES TROPHÉES DE LA COMÉDIE MUSICALE at Casino De Paris? After two years of absence, Les Trophées de la comédie musicale are getting bigger and bigger, from no live audience at the Trévise Theatre in its first annual production, to the first live version three years
A compter du 1er juillet 2022, Thomas Lauriot dit Prévost quitte ses fonctions de Directeur général du Théâtre du Châtelet après cinq années passées à son service, pour mener à bien d’autres projets professionnels.
Invited by Gustavo Dudamel to participate in the 100th anniversary season of the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Paris Opera Ballet, directed by Aurélie Dupont, will perform for the first time in this amphitheater on July 21 and 22, 2022.
This year, after two years of forced absence due to the pandemic, the Trophies of Musicals return on June 20th, 2022, in one of the most emblematic theaters of the French capital, the 2000 seats Casino de Paris.
Mondonville, né à Narbonne, est avec Rameau l’un des musiciens les plus importants du siècle de Louis XV.
L’amour peut-il transgresser la frontière entre le monde innocent des créatures fantastiques et celui, corrompu, des humains ? Conte romantique nourri de ballades tchèques, Rusalka est aussi un sommet absolu de l’opéra : Dvořák, admirable symphoniste, s’y révèle d'un lyrique ardent e
Daphnis et Chloé est un ballet, plus précisément une symphonie chorégraphique avec chœur, écrite par Maurice Ravel, et l’une des plus belles oeuvres de musique française.
L’irrésistible opéra bouffe du génial Rossini est un chef-d’œuvre d’humour et de virtuosité, servi par la plume insolente de Beaumarchais, l’un de nos plus grands auteurs de théâtre.
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