Review: SPAMALOT at Théatre De Paris
by Patrick Honoré - October 27, 2023
After the huge success of the Mel Brooks musical 'The Producers', 'Monty Python’s Spamalot' was a logical choice to follow suite with another stage adaptation of a hilarious and sometimes bawdy movie, just like it happened on Broadway, where both shows followed one another, winning Tonys....
Review: BLACK LEGENDS at 13ème Art
by Patrick Honoré - October 26, 2023
After many different incarnations since it first appeared as Swinging Life at L’Alhambra in 2009 and 2012, Valéry Rodriguez’s brainchild—now called Black Legends—has just begun its second 'season' in the new 13ème Art auditorium, following its sold-out run at Bobino last winter. With a lot of new n...
Interview: Nathan Guichet on Directing the Madonna Musical HOLIDAYS at L'Alhambra
by Patrick Honoré - October 23, 2023
A Madonna Juke Box Musical in Paris. In the sub-genre of the juke box musical that doesn’t tell the story of the star from whose oeuvre the songs are taken, but rather works those songs around an original story, comes Holidays on the heels of several predecessors, notably Broadway’s Mama Mia and Jag...
Review: WEST SIDE STORY at Château Du Karreveld
by Patrick Honoré - August 27, 2023
After venturing into British musicals with Blood Brothers in 2021 and Viennese musical theater with Elisabeth last year, the Bruxellons! Festival is getting back to Broadway with a completely new take on West Side Story, arguably the best musical ever—certainly the best-known and most well-loved one...
Review: EGO-SYSTÈME at Théâtre Essaïon
by Patrick Honoré - May 21, 2023
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. ...
Review: AL CAPONE at Folies Bergère
by Patrick Honoré - March 03, 2023
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....
Review: COQUELICOT at Théatre de la Contrescarpe
by Patrick Honoré - February 26, 2023
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...
Review: CHÂTELET MUSICAL CLUB at Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - February 24, 2023
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...