174 stories by "Laura Cappelle"
Touch is a requirement of a dancer's job. Now when choreography involves simulated sex or violence, some companies are bringing in intimacy directors.
Christophe Honoré's latest work, for the Paris stage, is part of a recent wave of stories in France about the complex aftereffects of social mobility.
As the presidential vote approaches, theaters and comedy venues are addressing the campaign. Many shows reach a similar conclusion: Don't trust politicians.
How can theaters adapt to prevent climate change? The British director Katie Mitchell and a Swiss playhouse have developed a new model for taking a production on the road.
She studied law, became a model, and then starred in everything from arthouse films to blockbusters. Now the multilingual Italian actor is overcoming a lifetime of stage fright to play opera…
In two Paris theater productions, there's no sugarcoating the physical decline that comes at the end of a long life.
The playwright found acclaim with works about the devastation caused by austerity. He returns with a drama exploring the realities of ageing
There is one no-no in an Alexander Zeldin rehears…
The French prodigy, who won an Oscar for The Father, talks about The Forest, his labyrinthine new drama following a man whose life unravels after an affair
Florian Zeller has made a speciali…
Three Paris productions " including Ivo van Hove's take on "Tartuffe" at the Comédie-Française " explore questions of the divine.
Tamara Rojo, San Francisco Ballet's incoming artistic director, has half updated the 19th-century work for English National Ballet.
The Comédie-Française is celebrating the 17th-century dramatist by recreating Tartuffe, the play that outraged the Catholic church and almost ended his career
French theatre is gearing u…
Netflix doesn't qualify as a solo offender when it comes to Gallic stereotypes, as three musical theater works on the city's stages show.
By asking the singer Bertrand Cantat to contribute to his latest show, the director Wajdi Mouawad has overshadowed his own production.
Slowed but not stopped by the pandemic, Wilson has had a busy fall that continues with his production of "Turandot" at the Paris Opera.
Representation for dramatic artists of color is improving, but few Black creators get to be their own bosses. Two recent productions show what France's mainstream theater is missing.
The Swiss provocateur Milo Rau's latest work explores the ethics of voluntary euthanasia with real footage of an assisted suicide.
Tiago Rodrigues, the newly appointed director of the Avignon Festival, will make his American debut, in English, with a work he has also performed in French, Greek, Portuguese, Russian and S…
The directors staging the most ambitious premieres are all female millennials.
The film director set himself a steep challenge in his debut stage work. At least for now, he hasn't quite met it.
A lush forest makes a spectacular backdrop for the stage of the Théâtre du Peuple, in western France.
In rural gardens, forests and public squares, young stage artists fed up with the country's rigid scene are striving for diversity and spontaneity.
The French theater festival's Fringe offering is giving some respite from the pandemic, even as new rules to stop coronavirus transmission are making it harder to get to the shows.
Grief. Rising fascism. Utopias gone wrong. The plays were grim in the early days of the annual theater event in France.
Angélica Liddell says she doesn't care about looking good onstage. Instead, her visceral works give her catharsis that she says keeps her alive.
"Exit," a new musical production, uses the political drama both as a metaphor and as a backdrop for a cross-continental love triangle.
