182 stories by "Laura Cappelle"
The École des Sables has established itself as Africa’s premier dance-training hub. Yet money concerns, and a new port nearby, make its future precarious.
In her "Trilogy of Funerals," the Spanish provocateur Angélica Liddell shows a sense of vulnerability that will surprise longtime watchers of her work.
Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's new ballet, based on the life of one of the first modern lesbians, is changing how dancers view their traditional roles.
A new work by the director Lorraine de Sagazan looks at a high-profile case that will soon be heard in a French court.
Scholars and artists at Sorbonne University trained artificial intelligence to imitate the French playwright's themes, structures and sense of humor. The result is a new play.
The theater that drew acclaim last year for "Les Misérables" is hoping Paris can accept a new "Americano-French musical."
The French theater maker Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings unheard voices to the stage, like the real and imagined garment workers in her latest work, "Lacrima."
As director of Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, one of France's top playhouses, Julien Gosselin is facing strong budgetary headwinds. But he's keeping his vision big.
A stage adaptation of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War" gives Soviet women credit for their complex roles in World War II.
Rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the theater extravaganza, where extreme heat is making it tough for the audience.
The festival opener "Nôt," from Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drew both boos and applause. Elsewhere, for Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the spectacle was kept to the stage.
The stripped-back performance, based on the rape trial that shocked France and the world, ran all night at a church in Vienna.
The Hollywood actor looks back on the experimental performances that shaped him at the Venice Theater Biennale.
The Hollywood star is the artistic director of this year's event. He is using the opportunity to spotlight experimental theater that shaped his career.
Virginie Despentes is pivoting to theater. Playgoers "really show up, even for demanding or radical works," she says.
Carolina Bianchi created a storm by drugging herself onstage at the beginning of a trilogy about sexual assault. Her latest play, "The Brotherhood," asks what happens next.
The former Bolshoi star, the most high-profile dancer to leave Russia, is making a career at the Dutch National Ballet, where she is refining her intensity.
A new leader for the Comédie-Française, Clément Hervieu-Léger, is an insider who looks set to keep the venerable Paris company on a steady course.
The Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues's latest show, "No Yogurt for the Dead," is based on his dying father's scribbles but resists sharing much emotion.
The French activists behind the hashtag #MeTooThéâtre have devised a play that shows the personal cost of bringing abuse claims to light.
The most famous French musical has never been popular in Paris. A major new production hopes to change that, reworking it for a contemporary French audience.
After Han Kang won the Prize in Literature last month, a stage version of her novel "The Vegetarian" sold out its run at a struggling Paris theater.
A retrospective in Paris honors Lina Majdalanie and Rabih Mroué, whose theater works have examined the region's troubles for decades.
Answering hatred with glitter is a time-honored drag tradition that France's answer to "RuPaul's Drag Race" is keeping alive in a new stage spectacle.
The best-selling, much discussed French novel is now a play. It gives a similarly humanizing view of the Russian leader and his inner circle.
