Review: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN at Le Théâtre Du Lido
Robert Carsen turns the Lido’s cabaret heritage into a theatrical advantage, creating the most convincing production yet of its musical-theatre era.…
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Review: JOHN & JEN at La Grange at Bruxellons!
Tucked into La Grange's intimate corner of Bruxellons, Andrew Lippa's near-sung-through two-hander proves a musical can carry real psychological weight.…
Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal
A brilliantly cast, beautifully judged French production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, where British manners, French theatrical tradition and comic murder collide at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE PAS DU MONDE By Collectif XY
Some festivals go out with a whimper. Once the excitement of the opening production in the Cour d'Honneur has passed, the remaining artists often present more modest, less foregrounded projects. There are concerts, readings, and other events, and it remains a vibrant hub of activity, but it is never…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MUETTE By Boris Charmatz
Boris Charmatz dances with discomfort. His work Muette, now in performance at the Festival d'Avignon's La Chartreuse, offers no easy viewing. Earthy movement, prolonged silence, and nudity combine in an unsettling yet riveting exploration of the body. Charmatz seeks to dance the interior self, a sel…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents CASTING LEAR By Andrea Jiménez
What better way to close out the Festival d'Avignon than with a love letter to the theatre? At the conclusion of Casting Lear, now performing at the Opéra Grand Avignon as part of the Festival, creator and performer André Jiménez makes an impassioned case for the art form. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UN PROCÈS By Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura
In Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura's Un Procès Après l'Ennemi du Peuple, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel, Thomas Stockmann finally gets his day in court. Reimagining the events of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in contemporary Brazil, the production transfor…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents NEIGE, NEIGE, NEIGE By Lee Jaram
With its generous public funding for culture, France's Festival d'Avignon can produce theatrical spectacles on an extraordinary scale. Its directors regularly push the formal limits of the art form with enormous casts, technological innovation, and elaborate stagecraft. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BUNKER By Marion Siéfert et Matthieu Bareyre
In his podcast, political commentator Ezra Klein has examined a curious conundrum within the modern elite: the pursuit of extraordinary qualities divorced from their original purpose. Looksmaxers have become sterile in their pursuit of superhuman beauty. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents THE LAST HAMLET By Ben Duke
In a BBC interview, famed director Katie Mitchell calls for fewer productions of Hamlet. She is tired of attending plays about “misogynistic, angry, depressed men.” I respect any artist defining the boundaries of what interests them. …
Past Shows
Le repas de fauves
In occupied France, seven friends gather to celebrate the anniversary of their host. The party takes place under the best auspices, until at the foot of their building are killed two German officers. In retaliation, the Gestapo invests the building and decided to take two...
Le technicien
Séverine Chapuis has been dumped by her husband Jean Pierre, a business man without faith or law. Abandoned, Séverine up a publishing literary works great and makes it live properly. One day, Jean Pierre enters the office of Severine and it is not at all the same man. It is now...
Parce que je la vole bien
An old lady is very generous billionaire with a fashionable dandy who made fun. Daughter and son of the old lady do not like to see their legacy and squandered. Any resemblance or similarity to characters or dead would have only one purpose: to make you laugh.
Le gai mariage
Henri de Sacy, inveterate Don Juan, learns he has inherited one million euros from his old aunt, provided he gets married in the year. As Henri refuses to waive his love of all women, his friend Norbert, a lawyer, he proposes to marry a man. So it would respect the last wishes...
Les monologues du vagin
"The Vagina Monologues" Play show combines laughter and emotion. International success translated into 45 languages ??and performed worldwide. More than 800 000 spectators in France. Created in 1990 by Eve Ensler writer committed to the cause of female (not feminist) is a...
Fabrice Luchini
Fabrice Luchini takes his show with some new La Fontaine fables and texts of Nietzsche, Baudelaire and Celine
Drôle de couple
When a neat freak that his wife has just thrown out and a very messy divorce decide to live together, it forms a really odd couple.
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