Tag: Theater
400 years Molière [1/2], “never where expected”
It is “a living world heritage” and also “African”. In 2022, the year of Molière’s 400th birthday, the latter will have his first translation into Wolof, accompanied by a major…
Show: Michel Fau seizes Molière and his comedy-ballet “George Dandin”
Molière was not only an author, director and actor, he was also the inventor of a new genre: the comedy-ballet. In complicity with the composer Jean-Baptiste Lully was born, in…
Theatre: “Gulliver’s Travels” adapted by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text…
Theater: “Le Chœur” by Fanny de Chaillé, a body of ten voices
They are 10 on stage to form a single entity, with 10 voices. Ten young actors and actresses, who speak, whisper, are indignant, confide, challenge each other, tell each other…
Sarnia’s Imperial Theater faces fallout from latest shutdown
Content article The not-for-profit owners of Sarnia’s Imperial Theater are back to rescheduling shows and worrying about the future in the wake of the latest pandemic shutdown. Content article Venues…
Philippe Caubère (actor): Molière “it’s the sense of humor, it’s deeper than humor”
2022 is the Molière Year. January 15, 2022 will be the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great French playwright, author of Bourgeois nice man, from Imaginary illness, from…
Eléonore Pancrazi and Romain Dumas make Parisian life sparkle
“La Vie parisienne” the flagship work of Jacques Offenbach is staged in his finest formal costume by Christian Lacroix at the Champs Elysées theater. An opera-bouffe presented in its entirety…
“Fat people skate well, cardboard cabaret”, a comedy to see at the Rond-Point theater
An incredible cardboard cabaret, a burlesque piece for two actors entitled Les gros patinent bien with Pierre Guillois and Olivier Martin-Salvan. The two friends had already won the Molière for…
Francis Huster declaims his love for Molière
Actor, director and member of the Comédie Française, Francis Huster has always been passionate about Molière. He publishes two books “The Dictionary of Molière’s Love” (Plon editions) and “Poquelin contre…
At the Théâtre du Châtelet, “Cole Porter in Paris” brings the Roaring Twenties to life
Cole Porter, star of the golden age of Broadway, arrives in Paris in the form of a musical show in his honor. To revive the Roaring Twenties, so formative for…