Friday, November 3, 2023
Show excluded from ‘pass culture’ scheme that allows teachers to take groups to cultural events for free
French officials have prevented schools from taking pupils for free to a musica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMMonday, April 10, 2023
Petit Palais show celebrates breadth of belle epoque theatre star’s creative talents with 400 exhibits
On page 158 of a heavy, leather-bound Paris police register from the 19th century, a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, August 31, 2020
Despite fulfilling her brief to bring diversity to the Châtelet Theatre, the veteran director was brusquely dismissed. So what went wrong?
When the British arts supremo Ruth Mackenzie was n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, August 28, 2020
British artistic director says immediate termination of her contract is ‘inexplicable’
The British arts director Ruth Mackenzie has lost her job at one of France’s most prestigious the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:48PMThursday, March 28, 2019
Protesters force university in Paris to cancel play for which actors were due to wear masks
A row over alleged racism and attacks on freedom of expression has erupted in France after student…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Unveiling new programme, Ruth Mackenzie explains how rich theatregoers can ‘steal from themselves to give to the poor’ and why the Châtelet is reaching out to the banlieues
It has been …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMTuesday, January 3, 2017
Briton is chosen to take over from Jean-Luc Choplin at theatre celebrated for its range of cultural eventsParis’s Châtelet theatre, celebrated for its range of cultural events including E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, October 20, 2016
Child prodigy who danced with legends including Rudolf Nureyev regarded as one of France’s greatest ever classical dancers Yvette Chauviré, a grande dame of French ballet, has died at the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:52AMFriday, September 16, 2016
Report also reveals ‘sudden progression’ in amount spent on meals by just four staff members – to about €52,000 in 2014It declares itself the birthplace of classic dance and is among…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMWednesday, April 6, 2016
Reimagined in 1950s Cuba and directed by Christopher Renshaw, Carmen la Cubana will open at the Théâtre du Châtelet over 140 years after Paris debutIt is Carmen, but not as we know it, an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:38AMSaturday, April 2, 2016
Jean-Luc Choplin, the Châtelet’s director, gave a high-art gloss to popular Broadway showsWhen Jean-Luc Choplin took over more than a decade ago as director general of Paris’s Théatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMTuesday, March 15, 2016
Fresh from directing Gérard Depardieu in the role of Stalin, the French star is now staging Sondheim’s Passion in Paris. She talks about the art of pretending, embarrassing her children a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Director Jean-Luc Choplin explains how he led an English-language musical comedy revolution when he took the reins at Paris’s Châtelet theatreAs a young Frenchman visiting New York in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMSaturday, May 23, 2015
Novelist’s plan for a night of fringe plays in his flat grows into biannual week-long festival and competition, Montmartre Dionysia Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10PMTuesday, November 25, 2014
The book – one of only 230 believed to still exist - had lain undisturbed in library at Saint-Omer for 200 years Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PM 
