This year’s edition of the festival, held under social distancing measures, is devoted to works made on a limited budget by under-the-radar Italian theater-makers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMMost plays aren’t masterpieces. As audiences emerge from lockdown and return to normal, there’s comfort in seeing a show that may not be great, but isn’t bad, either.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMThe firing of the British artistic director of one of Paris’s most famous venues exposes fault lines between globalization and local tradition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe company Les Tréteaux de France has been meeting the challenges of social distancing with a variety of measures, including voice-overs and unusual settings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32AMAudience members seemed to be asking one another, “Are we really doing this?” But the over-the-top physicality of “Ionesco Suite” was worth it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36AMA theme park’s whiz-bang performances are an odd mix of high-quality production values and one-dimensional storytelling. Historians have long disputed the narratives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMThe first professional production in France since stages went dark in March was a back-to-basics affair, but more memorable than many slick Paris shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36AMTimes have changed, but the revered French theater director has always stayed true to her beliefs.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMSeveral French theater companies, closed in the coronavirus outbreak, have rushed to put content online. Much of it is underwhelming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMThe French star’s fearless performances – and work ethic – are the stuff of legend. In her dressing room, she talks about the pain of theatre, acting in English and #MeToo In 2005, day…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThe Canadian director’s “The Seven Streams of the River Ota” is set for a world tour, after his most recent productions were embroiled in debates about cultural appropriation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24AMFrance’s movie business is consumed by debates about gender inequality. Onstage, female theatermakers are bringing women’s stories to the fore.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMPeter Brook and Thomas Ostermeier are presenting unfinished shows in Paris, offering a rare chance to see how their productions come together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMAnd elsewhere in Paris, smaller theaters take more radical cues from the L.G.B.T.Q. world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AMMilo Rau’s latest work is inspired by a French family whose members took their own lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMThe revered film director vowed never to touch theatre. So why is he staging the great Aids epic Angels in America? Apparently, it’s all a misunderstanding Arnaud Desplechin looks surprisi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06AMDo you have to be British to get panto? We sent a French critic to three shows full of cross-dressing dames and adults playing cows. Will she ever forget the experience? Oh no she won’t! S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36AMThe genre has long been seen as minor in the French capital, but a string of English-language productions is creating a pleasingly upbeat dynamic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54AMSeveral French theater productions are putting dark spins on everyday events.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMIn Paris, the mythological Greek character Electra can once again be found in a theater, while the heroine of a quirky new play is inspired by “Rocky III.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24AMKate Mitchell’s adaptation of the 1928 novel is consistently one step behind Virginia Woolf’s mercurial prose.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36AMThe long-awaited spectacle that relaunched the Théâtre du Châtelet was cheerful, but disappointing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42AMThere is a cross-dressing show for everyone in the city, from traditional cabarets to RuPaul-inspired productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMDespite a history stretching to 1934, it feels like a David to the art exhibition’s Goliath. But its program is all the better for that.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMThe Northern-Irish choreographer’s raw and powerful work examines gender, identity and religion, but it all happens by accident, she says. Oona Doherty is finding out about the law of unin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMAn underwhelming official lineup led many festivalgoers to branch out into the less well-known complimentary program.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AMThe Parisian theatre company is on a rare visit to the UK with Ivo van Hove’s The Damned. What are the secrets of the world’s oldest active troupe? Companies like nothing more than to re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PMThe Printemps des Comédiens festival features productions uniquely crafted for, and occasionally by, their performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12AMTales of women losing their grip on reality don’t exist in a void. They fit into broader cultural narratives.
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