182 stories by "Laura Cappelle"
The French choreographer Bintou Dembélé brings her desire to create "a fair ecosystem" to the Avignon Festival, which she opened with "G.R.O.O.V.E."
The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.
Some of the action onstage at the Amsterdam event is so bizarre that following the action can be tough.
Ariane Mnouchkine, a grande dame of French theater, helped to set up a new festival where emerging companies can try out ambitious stagings.
The Swiss director Milo Rau drapes a traumatic episode of Brazilian history with a Greek tragedy on a Belgian stage.
In Marion Siéfert's much-anticipated new show, the French director explores the dynamics of online grooming.
The French director Joël Pommerat has created an intimate chamber work examining love from many angles, all of them laced with pain and misunderstanding.
The American writer's last novel becomes surprisingly effective theater in the hands of Tiphaine Raffier at the Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe.
The country has a long history of demonstrations, which often feature overtly theatrical elements. Our Paris theater critic marched along on Tuesday to soak up the spectacle.
The play, a hit at the Avignon Festival, explores the twists and turns of a breakup through a whimsical mix of musical numbers and dreamlike vignettes.
Paris productions of Chekhov, Turgenev and Ostrovsky avoid current events and focus on profound truths. But the plays' message is clear: If you rebel, you will be crushed.
A passé take on Georg Büchner's 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes.
The 1966 American musical has opened at a venue that for decades hosted one of the city's most famous revue troupes.
The Times's three European theater critics pick their favorite productions of the year " plus a turkey apiece for the festive season.
Several intimate literary accounts of pain and suffering have been adapted for the theater recently " with varying success.
At 60, and already a renowned theater maker, Irina Brook is rethinking her work and tackling the legacy of her famous parents: "I'm only just emerging from my cocoon."
Songs from "Starmania" are frequently heard and covered in France, but until a new production opened in Paris, few had a chance to see the 1979 rock opera onstage.
Martinez, once a member of the company's troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.
Three stage works in Paris by the incoming director of the Avignon Festival continue his preoccupation with empathy and human complexity.
Several Paris theaters geared up to open their seasons with the most famous English playwright. How would the plays be tackled if a woman's name were attached to them?
Marion Siéfert's "_jeanne_dark_," about a shy teenager beginning to express her sexuality, contains no nudity yet still ran afoul of Instagram's opaque policies.
As offices and schools reopen, ParisOffFestival brings a carnival atmosphere to an area of low-income housing in the city.
American-style stand-up, a relatively young art form in France, is attracting a young, racially diverse crowd to a blossoming club scene.
The annual Paris l'Été hosts some especially strong multidisciplinary shows this summer, one of which includes a seven-hour hike.
With striking premieres in the main program and enchanting discoveries on the supplementary Fringe, the eminent event in European theater is flourishing after some difficult years.
