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.
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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 01:18AMThursday, February 17, 2022
In two Paris theater productions, there’s no sugarcoating the physical decline that comes at the end of a long life.
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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 02:48PMMonday, 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 08:03AMThursday, January 27, 2022
Three Paris productions — including Ivo van Hove’s take on “Tartuffe” at the Comédie-Française — explore questions of the divine.
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Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet’s incoming artistic director, has half updated the 19th-century work for English National Ballet.
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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 up …
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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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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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By asking the singer Bertrand Cantat to contribute to his latest show, the director Wajdi Mouawad has overshadowed his own production.
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Slowed but not stopped by the pandemic, Wilson has had a busy fall that continues with his production of “Turandot” at the Paris Opera.
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Representation for dramatic artists of color is improving, but few Black creators get to be their own bosses. Two recent productions show what France’s mainstream theater is missing.
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The Swiss provocateur Milo Rau’s latest work explores the ethics of voluntary euthanasia with real footage of an assisted suicide.
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Tiago Rodrigues, the newly appointed director of the Avignon Festival, will make his American debut, in English, with a work he has also performed in French, Greek, Portuguese, Russian and S…
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Friday, September 24, 2021
The film director set himself a steep challenge in his debut stage work. At least for now, he hasn’t quite met it.
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Thursday, August 12, 2021
In rural gardens, forests and public squares, young stage artists fed up with the country’s rigid scene are striving for diversity and spontaneity.
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The French theater festival’s Fringe offering is giving some respite from the pandemic, even as new rules to stop coronavirus transmission are making it harder to get to the shows.
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Grief. Rising fascism. Utopias gone wrong. The plays were grim in the early days of the annual theater event in France.
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Angélica Liddell says she doesn’t care about looking good onstage. Instead, her visceral works give her catharsis that she says keeps her alive.
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“Exit,” a new musical production, uses the political drama both as a metaphor and as a backdrop for a cross-continental love triangle.
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After more than two months of occupation by arts workers, the Odéon Theater returned to business with a prepandemic production that feels out of step with the current moment.
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After two canceled Paris runs, a highly awaited production of Robert Walser’s “The Pond,” starring Adèle Haenel, finally made it to the stage in Switzerland.
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A growing movement within French theater is reclaiming the work of forgotten female artists, and reviving a lost concept: le matrimoine.
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Performing-arts protesters locked out by the pandemic have occupied playhouses across France, but drama is not allowed. Cue the “agoras.”
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Theaters have been closed in Belgium since October. An on-camera production was born out of necessity, but its look at Nazi history offers a fascinating blend of theater and cinematography.
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Thursday, February 25, 2021
Florian Zeller has found success in the theater and as a novelist. Now, his first movie as a director is nominated for four Golden Globe Awards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMA Paris playhouse has developed a program of one-on-one “consultations,” delivered by its artists while the theater is closed.
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