Review: ARTISTE? at Théâtre Le Grand Point Virgule
by Patrick Honoré - January 21, 2024
Is one born an artist, or does one become an artist? Axel Alvarez intimately explores this question in his spectacularl, exuberantly danced, autobiographical one-man song and dance show in Paris....
Review: WEST SIDE STORY at Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - January 13, 2024
For the 6th time since the beginning of the 80s, West Side Story, the Berstein-Sondheim Laurents masterpiece, was back in Paris for a limited run as part of a French tour before going to Sydney in April. In sync with the release of the Bradley Cooper biopic Maestro, it is great that younger generati...
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...