New productions of “Macbeth” and “Hamlet” follow a French tradition of adapting familiar works. The results are innovative, and sometimes cryptic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMAfter roles dried up, Dominique Blanc reclaimed her artistic agency by taking a one-woman play on the road. Now she’s making a rare appearance in Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMRomeo Castellucci’s production of the classic play by Jean Racine is all about the lead performer — and that’s it.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMThe new show by Alexis Michalik, a star of commercial theater, wades into political battles in France, where immigration restrictions have been at the forefront of the government’s agenda.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMKrystian Lupa’s latest work had its premiere in Paris after an earlier attempt collapsed. The delay would have been a good time to rethink the four-and-a-half-hour show.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMIn Paris, a new production from Richard Nelson imagines a day on tour with Konstantin Stanislavski’s theater company in 1923, but misses the historical context.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMFor the Scottish Ballet production of Cinderella, titled “Cinders!,” some performances flip the traditional gender roles. The dancers “were all kind of like: ‘OK. How does that work?…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMRébecca Chaillon’s “Carte Noire Named Desire” provoked harassment in France this summer, leading one actor to pull out of a new run in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe provocations in Milo Rau’s stage adaptation, featuring actors with Down syndrome, confuse the production as it grapples with weighty issues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMThe Théâtre de la Ville, now named for Sarah Bernhardt, reopened after a seven-year renovation. But its once-radical approach to dance is now less of a calling card.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43AM“Holidays,” the first musical to include the pop icon’s songs, arrives just days before her “Celebration” tour starts. But matching the star’s talents is a challenge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:55PMA new play by Alexander Zeldin recreates his mother’s winding, painful path to a life of her own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMThe American choreographer has 46 engagements this year, including a monthslong retrospective of his work in Paris. But he is making plans for a “second act” away from the dance world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe Avignon Festival’s new director wants to spotlight drama in a different language each year. This year’s first installment had some conventional choices.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMIn an ethically murky show at the Avignon Festival, the Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi opens up about how she was drugged and abused, then knocks herself out with a spiked cocktail.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55AMThe French choreographer Bintou Dembélé brings her desire to create “a fair ecosystem” to the Avignon Festival, which she opened with “G.R.O.O.V.E.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMSome of the action onstage at the Amsterdam event is so bizarre that following the action can be tough.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMAriane Mnouchkine, a grande dame of French theater, helped to set up a new festival where emerging companies can try out ambitious stagings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04AMThe Swiss director Milo Rau drapes a traumatic episode of Brazilian history with a Greek tragedy on a Belgian stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42AMIn Marion Siéfert’s much-anticipated new show, the French director explores the dynamics of online grooming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe French director Joël Pommerat has created an intimate chamber work examining love from many angles, all of them laced with pain and misunderstanding.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThe American writer’s last novel becomes surprisingly effective theater in the hands of Tiphaine Raffier at the Odéon-Théâtre de l’Europe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMThe country has a long history of demonstrations, which often feature overtly theatrical elements. Our Paris theater critic marched along on Tuesday to soak up the spectacle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:28PMThe play, a hit at the Avignon Festival, explores the twists and turns of a breakup through a whimsical mix of musical numbers and dreamlike vignettes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMParis productions of Chekhov, Turgenev and Ostrovsky avoid current events and focus on profound truths. But the plays’ message is clear: If you rebel, you will be crushed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:35AMA passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:14AMThe Times’s three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year — plus a turkey apiece for the festive season.
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