Tuesday, February 7, 2023
Paris 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 09:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 19, 2023
A passé take on Georg Büchner's 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Thursday, December 15, 2022
The 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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Tuesday, November 22, 2022
At 60, and already a renowned theater maker, Irina Brook is rethinking her work and tackling the legacy of her famous parents: "I'm only just emerging from my cocoon."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 10, 2022
Songs from "Starmania" are frequently heard and covered in France, but until a new production opened in Paris, few had a chance to see the 1979 rock opera onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03AM[SHARE]Friday, October 28, 2022
Martinez, once a member of the company's troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 20, 2022
Three stage works in Paris by the incoming director of the Avignon Festival continue his preoccupation with empathy and human complexity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
Several Paris theaters geared up to open their seasons with the most famous English playwright. How would the plays be tackled if a woman's name were attached to them?
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Marion Siéfert's "_jeanne_dark_," about a shy teenager beginning to express her sexuality, contains no nudity yet still ran afoul of Instagram's opaque policies.
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Thursday, August 18, 2022
American-style stand-up, a relatively young art form in France, is attracting a young, racially diverse crowd to a blossoming club scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 28, 2022
Thursday, July 14, 2022
With striking premieres in the main program and enchanting discoveries on the supplementary Fringe, the eminent event in European theater is flourishing after some difficult years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 23, 2022
Thursday, June 2, 2022
The French writer played himself onstage and hated the experience, according to a new work he developed with the Swiss director Milo Rau. This time around, there's an actor in the role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 12, 2022
Performance venues at this year's Kunstenfestivaldesarts, in Brussels, include a disused museum and the upper house of Belgium's Parliament.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 21, 2022
At the Molières, France's equivalent of the Tony Awards, commercial and publicly funded productions seem to inhabit different worlds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Touch is a requirement of a dancer's job. Now when choreography involves simulated sex or violence, some companies are bringing in intimacy directors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 31, 2022
Christophe Honoré's latest work, for the Paris stage, is part of a recent wave of stories in France about the complex aftereffects of social mobility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2022
As the presidential vote approaches, theaters and comedy venues are addressing the campaign. Many shows reach a similar conclusion: Don't trust politicians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 3, 2022
How can theaters adapt to prevent climate change? The British director Katie Mitchell and a Swiss playhouse have developed a new model for taking a production on the road.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 2, 2022
She studied law, became a model, and then starred in everything from arthouse films to blockbusters. Now the multilingual Italian actor is overcoming a lifetime of stage fright to play opera…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 17, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
The playwright found acclaim with works about the devastation caused by austerity. He returns with a drama exploring the realities of ageing
There is one no-no in an Alexander Zeldin rehears…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, January 31, 2022
The French prodigy, who won an Oscar for The Father, talks about The Forest, his labyrinthine new drama following a man whose life unravels after an affair
Florian Zeller has made a speciali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 27, 2022
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Monday, January 10, 2022
The Comédie-Française is celebrating the 17th-century dramatist by recreating Tartuffe, the play that outraged the Catholic church and almost ended his career
French theatre is gearing u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 6, 2022
Netflix doesn't qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city's stages show.
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