France Theater Reviews

Review: ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY at Le Son De La Terre
by Patrick Honoré - December 04, 2023

Callaway has a way of finding new depths to even though most familiar songs, exerting a warmth that Winter in Paris needs....

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...

Review: A TRIBUTE TO PASEK & PAUL at Péniche Le Marcounet
by Patrick Honoré - February 02, 2023

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

Review: GENE KELLY SUR LA 42ÈME RUE at Radio De La Musique
by Patrick Honoré - January 14, 2023

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

Review: ISABELLE GEORGE at Bal Blomet and La Nouvelle Eve
by Patrick Honoré - January 12, 2023

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

Review: CABARET at Lido 2
by Patrick Honoré - January 09, 2023

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

Review: 42ND STREET at Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

After two postponements, the revival of the 2016 Châtelet production of 42nd Street is finally on till January 15th, with a brand-new cast but the same creative team as the original. Stephen Mear had already directed and choreographed the piece for the Parisian public six years ago. In the meantime ...

Review: SILVANO JO: TOUTES LES FEMMES DE MA VIE
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

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

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Opéra Comique
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

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...

Review: ELISABETH at Château Du Karreveld
by Patrick Honoré - August 28, 2022

The worldwide hit about the Austrian Empress performed in French at the Bruxellons! Festival in Belgium....

Review: LOVE SONGE THERAPIE at Lucernaire
by Patrick Honoré - July 09, 2022

What did our critic think of LOVE SONGE THÉRAPIE at Lucernaire?...

Review: Les Trophees De La Comedie Musicale at Casino De Paris
by Patrick Honoré - July 05, 2022

What did our critic think of LES TROPHÉES DE LA COMÉDIE MUSICALE at Casino De Paris? After two years of absence, Les Trophées de la comédie musicale are getting bigger and bigger, from no live audience at the Trévise Theatre in its first annual production, to the first live version three years ago, ...

Review: JE VAIS T'AIMER at La Seine Musicale
by Patrick Honoré - July 05, 2022

What did our critic think of JE VAIS T'AIMER at La Seine Musicale? Originally set to open in fall 2021, the Michel Sardou juke-box musical is the first French big spectacular to hit the capital since Covid. Following a brief tour, it is playing a limited season at the huge Seine Musicale Auditorium ...

BWW Review: SONDHEIM TRIBUTE at Studio De L'Accord Parfait
by Patrick Honoré - May 11, 2022

American Musical Theater Live continues to carry Broadway's flame in Paris....

BWW Review: MIXITY at Théatre Lepic
by Patrick Honoré - March 07, 2022

18 years after his successful musical revue Zapping at the Théâtre du Gymnase before transferring to the Olympia and the Trianon, Bruno Agati is back with another off the wall production, this time focusing on gender ambiguity and digging more deeply into the inner psyche of its writer-director-chor...

BWW Review: TAP VIRTUOSO at Théâtre Du Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - February 11, 2022

Aurélien taps to classical music at the Châtelet Theater....

BWW Review: COLORED LIGHTS at Port-Royal Temple
by Patrick Honoré - January 26, 2022

Quadruple threat Dalia Constantin in an initimate autobiographical one-woman show....