France Theatre Newsroom

This Spring, Tony Award-nominated Broadway star Melissa Errico comes home to Paris with two concerts with her friend & French counterpart Isabelle Georges, the first on 5/28 is a special live broadcast with Radio France, the second on 6/2 is an intimate live club concert in the heart of Paris:

With seven nominations for the French Trophées de la Comédie Musicale (Best Musical, Direction, Book, Score, Leading Man, Leading Woman), Égo-Système is bound to be among the winners during this year's ceremony at the Casino de Paris on June 12th.

The Paris Opera opens its 23/24 season with a new production of Don Giovanni. If Mozart's masterpiece has fascinated generations since its Prague premiere in 1787, it is not only because his score achieves an unparalleled convergence of comedy and drama, but also because its expressive force deepens tenfold the myth of Don Giovanni, the philanderer who defies God and society.

Scheduled from May 19-20, 2023, the fifth annual French Riviera Film Festival (FRFF), celebrating short film and short-form content from around the globe, has unveiled the finalist shorts of the 2023 competition. The announcement was made by festival co-founders Gotham Chandna and Nicole Goesseringer Muj.

Since the release of her debut album La Mustique on ABC Jazz Universal (“a total triumph on so many levels” Van Dyke Parks)  not only opening for guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel but enticing audiences with her blend of French and jazz-inspired music, Emma's raspy enveloping voice transports you to another era while her vocals dance and play showcasing her own undeniably hooky original songs, right through to French classic chansons which she sings with luscious authenticity (she is half French) and passion

In May Word for Word’s Production of George Saunders HOME will go to France, on May 10 to Angers and May 16 to Paris. This follows a run in San francisco where Words for Words’ first season production was received enthusiastically by audiences and press alike.

Since the release of her debut album La Mustique on ABC Jazz Universal   not only opening for guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel but enticing  audiences with her own blend of French and jazz inspired music, Emma's raspy enveloping voice transports you to another era while her vocals dance and play showcasing her own undeniably hooky original songs, right through to French classic chansons which she sings with luscious authenticity (she is half French) and passion. 

The Big Funk company presents a special night of Shakespeare at Le Cresco Theatre in association with LA Fabrique Shakespeare and April Shakespeare festival in Paris (Festival Shakespeare d'Avril! 2023).

Barnabé Leroux est un comptable maniaque, obsessionnel et surtout très procédurier, depuis la mort de sa femme, il mène une vie de solitaire et ne voit que très rarement Benoit son fils unique. Son seul vrai contact avec le monde extérieur se limite à sa visite hebdomadaire chez sa psychanalyste.

Serge et Bernard, acteurs de second plan, la soixantaine, habitués aux troisièmes rôles, sont amis depuis longtemps . Ils ont débuté ensemble il y a 40 ans, mais n’en restent pas moins rivaux.

It's the only lesson you'll ever need! No, you will not learn French, but you'll learn how to behave 'like a Parisian', as well as the major differences between French people and Anglo-Saxons.

Cyber Group Studios, a leading producer and distributor of animated series - with offices in France, the United States, Italy, Singapore, and England - is again adding to its leadership team and strategically positioning the company for further growth in 2023 and beyond. 

Just when the Broadway flop Bonnie and Clyde is about to come back to the West End for the 2nd time, trying to build a popular hit off a cult following, a new musical about another famous criminal, Al Capone, one of the most infamous personalities from America's prohibition era, arrives in Paris.

French actress, singer, and dancer, Prisca Demarez made fruitful use of her time in lockdown during the initial stages of Covid to create an autobiographical show, part standup routine and part solo concert, called Coquelicot (French for poppy flower), which debuted earlier this month at the Théatre de la Contrescarpe in the Latin Quarter of Paris.

For the 2nd year, the Châtelet Musical Club is growing, inviting artists from different countries and backgrounds to share their love and talent for musical theater in the intimate grand foyer of the Théâtre du Châtelet, which, under the helm of Jean-Luc Choplin, has for the past decade been the new temple of musical theater, introducing the French to the genius of Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein (among others) and serving as the home for the first ever tryout in Paris with An American in Paris in 2014.

Uniting cabaret and cheeky comedy, burlesque saw its glory in Paris throughout the late 19th century, before spreading to all corners of the globe. Making a triumphant return to the Parisian stage in this unique collection of acts, prepare to discover and rediscover the art of burlesque, as this show breathes new life into the age-old Parisian tradition!

Dominique Bourse has been appointed Chairman and CEO of Cyber Group Studios, succeeding Pierre Sissmann. He was previously the company’s Chief Operating Officer.

AMT Live presents a tribute to the young Broadway composers Pasek and Paul as part of their ongoing Broadway Chez Nous series.

French chanson icon SERGE LAMA receives the Festival Napoleon Honorary Award for his musical 'Napoleon' in Paris.

The fifth edition of '42ème rue fait son show !' celebrates one of Paris's favorite Americans.

Isabelle Georges' Broadway concert at the Bal Blomet and Oh là là ! at La Nouvelle Eve

A new production of the classic musical for a limited run in Paris. Don't miss in

In sync with the off-Broadway revival currently playing in New York until 2024 comes to the Opéra Comique the first legitimate Paris revival of the 1986 French adaptation of The Little Shop of Horrors by the late Alain Marcel, which first opened at the Théâtre Dejazet in June and then transferred to the Théâtre la Porte St-Martin. A previous French revival, also at the Dejazet in 2001, starring Hervé Lewandowski as Seymour and Franck Vincent as the plant, was cut short because the rights didn't allow for the vegetal monster to be played by a human! Of course, this has now changed. As in the excellent Maria Aberg production at Regent's Park Open Air in 2018, the plant appeared in the human form of American drag queen Vicky Vox! In this new production, the plant made bigger and sensibly more frightening, is a giant puppet manipulated by Daniel Njo Lobé whose powerful voice gives the vegetal its identity.

Silvano Jo performs multiple roles in this one-man cabaret, a journey through the hidden gems of French café and cabaret songs.

La Forza del destino is now playing at Opera National de Paris. Performances run through 30 December.