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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.

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.

This protest forms the foundation of childhood life.

Currently onstage at the Festival d’Avignon’s restored Opéra Grand Avignon is, much to my astonishment, an opera.

The performances of this year’s Festival d’Avignon trended towards the intimate and the documentarian.

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.

Tragedy doesn’t hinge on a twist but on a reversal or, as the Greeks termed it, a peripeteia.

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.

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.

Since its founding in 1947, only a handful of performances at the Festival d’Avignon have achieved mythic status.

I should perhaps begin with a confession: I don’t know the work of Jacques Brel.

The impulse with Avignon’s Cour d’Honneur is to go big.

Mette Ingvartsen’s Delirious Night, now in performance at the Festival d’Avignon’s Cour du Lycée St.

Choreographers Selma and Sofiane Ouissi appear only on screen in Laaroussa Quartet, now in performance at the Festival d’Avignon’s La Fabrica.

This past week, I found myself explaining the concept of “commit to the bit” to a friend in Paris.

The news can inform us.

As part of the official program for the Off-Avignon festival, Joanna Pickering will perform her one act play Lara's Journey on July 17th at 11.

Whether you’re a film buff, a Dion stan, or just craving a night of pure fun, this off-Broadway transplant will have you laughing, crying, and belting out “My Heart Will Go On” long after the curtain falls.

The Paris Opera will launch its 2025–26 season at the iconic Palais Garnier with a landmark event: the directorial debut of acclaimed British actor Ralph Fiennes, presenting a new staging of Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin.

Manon by Jules Massenet is now playing at Opéra Bastille.

Hofesh Shechter comes to the Paris Opera this month.

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present the European premiere of Framing Ménerbes: Film Screening and Reception.

Daniel Gwirtzman Dance Company will present the European premiere of Framing Ménerbes: Film Screening and Reception in June.

The winners of the 2025 Molière Awards have been announced, featuring Ladislas Chollat's production of Les Misérables at Théâtre du Châtelet.