Tag: Theater
Stephen Sondheim’s “Le Forum en Folie”, a Broadway classic for the reopening of Lido 2 Paris
A musical comedy about a Roman slave in search of freedom, what better way to reopen one of the Meccas of Parisian nightlife, renamed Lido 2? Sumptuously reupholstered after nine…
Death of South African composer and choreographer Mbongeni Ngema
He was celebrated around the world and his name appeared on the Walk of Fame, the pantheon of Broadway stars in New York. The playwright, composer and choreographer Mbongeni Ngema…
Theatre: “The big ones skate well”, a cabaret of cardboard boxes and gromelots
Hundreds of pieces of cardboard inscribed with the names of countries, accessories or critters encountered tell the incredible adventures of an American in love with a mermaid in an anglicized…
This is the best 15-disc box available for home theater
Anyone who longs for the Shire in the cold season will now find relief with the Middle-earth Collection. The adventures of Frodo, Aragorn, Bilbo and Co. remain just as exciting…
“Dialaw Project”, a creation against destruction
Toubab Dialaw is a coastal town in Senegal. It is the location of Germaine Acogny’s Les Sables school but also that of a titanic port project, imagined between the Senegalese…
“Tenderness”: portraits of today’s masculinity on stage
Five years later Disobey which featured female characters, inspired by meetings and testimonies of young women from immigrant backgrounds, Julie Bérès uses the same creative process to design the play…
School bullying: theater as a prevention tool
School bullying affects around one in five students in France. The government has made the fight against school bullying one of its priorities. Many actions are being put in place…
Laetitia Casta: “In the theater, we are in something immediate, lively and fragile”
It’s a doubly difficult undertaking that director Lilo Baur and her actors Laetitia Casta and Roschdy Zem have taken on. The theater adaptation of the cult film “A Special Day”…
the consequences of a coup de theater in the National Assembly – L’Express
It’s like a mini-motion of censure that has fallen on the government: the rejection of the immigration bill leaves Emmanuel Macron and the executive in an impasse and with only…
Lauren Houda Hussein and Ido Shaked: “This show becomes even more urgent to share”
An actress and author from Lebanon and an Israeli director, a duo that seems improbable in these times of Israeli-Palestinian war. And yet, Lauren Houda Hussein and Ido Shaked founded…