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Despite 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 11:24AM[SHARE]The 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 uninte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 18, 2019
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The 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 refer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2019
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Two productions in Paris with their roots in the Greek playwright's works explore the nature of human brutality. But without any CGI effects.
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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Liam Scarlett's raunchy staging of the novel for Queensland Ballet is partly a response to its distance from London, he says
It's not often you see sex on top of a coffin on stage, but that'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 12, 2019
The actor turned playwright is taking his work to the UK for the first time. He talks about his Shakespeare in Love-style comedy riffing on Cyrano de Bergerac
Alexis Michalik has much in com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 7, 2019
The annual Reims Scènes d'Europe festival showcases contemporary creation from around Europe. This year, it is focused on emerging artists from Spain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 18, 2019
A new theatrical work by Christophe Honoré and an adaptation of a novel by Didier Eribon see prominent French gay artists reclaim their origins with striking honesty.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2019
The French writer-director talks about his highly personal new show, a 'dance of the dead' that pays tribute to artistic heroes including Jacques DemyDirector Christophe Honoré still looks …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 20, 2018
Monday, December 17, 2018
The Canadian stage director has seen some of his productions derailed by accusations of cultural insensitivity. In a new show in Paris, he can't resist pointing to his own suffering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 29, 2018
Thursday, November 15, 2018
La Scala Paris opened with a production in which the playwright Yasmina Reza also acts. But a theater focused on new writing in French from abroad faces an uncertain future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Staatsoper Unter den Linden, BerlinAlexei Ratmansky's reconstruction of Marius Petipa's problematic ballet raises an uncomfortable questionA quiet revolution has been under way in the ballet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
Monday, October 8, 2018
He has put an Isis fighter's mother in the Ghent Altarpiece and restaged a murder. Now the Swiss director plans to get radicalWhen Milo Rau first saw the Ghent Altarpiece, one detail leapt o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 27, 2018
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Despite some eye-catching dramatics, the paucity of female directors and protagonists at the most important event in the French theater calendar sticks out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 8, 2018
Phia Ménard's work perplexes show programmers and audiences alike. Her latest production will have its premiere at the prestigious Avignon theater festival in France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
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Paris is full of exhibitions and talks to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the student uprising. But the theater world's contribution has been remarkably subdued.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12AM[SHARE]Friday, April 13, 2018
Thursday, March 15, 2018
Theaters in France and in the English-speaking world couldn't be more different. But they can learn from each other, as three productions in Paris show.
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