Interview with Raphaëlle Boitel – Compagnie L’oubliée
Written by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy of the United States. Interview Conducted...
Read MorePosted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 17th May 2020 | Directing, France, Interview
Written by The Cultural Services of the French Embassy of the United States. Interview Conducted...
Read MorePosted by Guillaume Clayssen | 13th Apr 2020 | France, Interview, Playwriting
Guillaume Clayssen, a fellow playwright, interviewed David Lescot on his newest piece in June 2016...
Read MorePosted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 21st Feb 2020 | France, Interview, Puppetry
New York City’s HERE Arts Center will present the U.S. premiere of Anywhere by Théâtre de...
Read MorePosted by Marisa C. Hayes | 5th Feb 2020 | France, Review, Theatre and Art
HEN. Johanny Bert – Théâtre de Romette. January 22, 2020. Le Mouffetard – Théâtre des Arts...
Read MorePosted by Darie Ducan | 5th Jan 2020 | Adaptation, France, Review
Rhinoceros (1959) is one of Eugène Ionesco’s best-known plays, one of the plays with which the...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 12th Dec 2019 | France, Germany, LGBTQ+ Theatre, New York, Review, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
First of all, don’t be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier’s...
Read MorePosted by John Brunner | 26th Nov 2019 | France, Germany, Review, Translation
It opens with a manic attempt to clean. The sheets, the floors, the smell of the air, everything...
Read MorePosted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 13th Nov 2019 | France, Interview, Theatre and Dance
Founded in 2012 by two breakdancers, Souhail Marchiche and Mehdi Meghari, Compagnie Dyptik is...
Read MorePosted by Philippa Wehle | 26th Sep 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, News
Writing about non verbal communication in his book Beaux Gestes; A Guide to French Body Talk, the...
Read MorePosted by French Culture | 16th Sep 2019 | Festivals, France, News, Puppetry, United States of America
Between January and July 2019, the liveliness of the French puppetry and object theater scene was...
Read MorePosted by Nicole Birmann Bloom | 19th Aug 2019 | Festivals, France, Interview, Puppetry
In August and September, the street theater collective Plasticiens Volants (PV) return...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 11th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Dance, United Kingdom
Outwitting the Devil, Akram Khan’s latest work, truly stood out within the line up of very...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 10th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Mahmoud & Nini is an unusual show –not only it does not look like your typical proscenium...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 8th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Russia, Theatre and Politics
Provocation – artistic, political, personal – is the signature style of the Russian theatre...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 6th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, United Kingdom
Le reste vous le connaissez par le cinéma written by Martin Crimp, translated by Philippe Djian...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 4th Aug 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review
Let me tell you a secret- I love the old good comedy, its extensive gestures, inappropriate jokes,...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 31st Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre for Young Audiences
What a delight, a relief and a sheer pleasure to sit through Olivier Py’s operetta for children...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 29th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review, Theatre and Politics
Moving along with the themes of history, memory and forgetting – the focus of Paul Ricœur’s famous...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 25th Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Festivals, France, Review
Walter Benjamin once said that storytelling is a form of “artisan communication”, a...
Read MorePosted by Yana Meerzon | 23rd Jul 2019 | Avignon 2019, Brazil, France, Review, Transcultural Collaborations
Exile, migration, refugee crisis, loss of home and family, and death are among many realities and...
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