Pierre Tran
Secret Wars
Spies and Spooks: A Deadly Business
One of the most remarkable items in the exhibition on spies and espionage “Guerres Secrètes” (“Secret Wars”), currently on show at the Musée de l’Armée, is a French intelligence file on a Vietnamese man by the name of Vo Nguyen … Read More
Chevaliers et Bombardes
Win Some, Lose Some: A Century of War in France
To mark the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt (Azincourt in French) and the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Marignano, the Musée de l’Armée is exploring the twin themes of knights and artillery during that one- hundred-year period … Read More
Indochine: Des Territoires et des Hommes, 1856-1956
Paris Update What’s New in Paris Parachutists arriving during the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Photo: Daniel Camus/RMN-Grand Palais/Musée de l’Armée. The Musée de l’Armée in Paris is holding a fascinating exhibition, “Indochine: Des Territoires et des Hommes, 1856-1956” (through … Read More
Moving Parts
MOVING PARTS For those who are interested in the craft of writing, the play-reading workshop Moving Parts holds readings of original, unpublished pieces for the stage and screen every two weeks at Carr’s Irish Pub and Restaurant (1, rue du … Read More
Julius Caesar
Mark Anthony (Gately Freeman, center) arrives on the scene of Caesar’s assassination in the Tower Theatre Company’s Paris production of Julius Caesar. Photo: Michelle Roebuck Thank Shakespeare for great theater. Can you imagine a world without such lines as “Cry … Read More
Little Gem
Elaine Murphy’s prizewinning play Little Gem talks of birth, life, sex, death and rebirth. Sounds deadly, does it not? Actually, the poignant stories of three generations of women – daughter Amber, her mother Lorraine and grandmother Kay – not only … Read More
Smallone
Sarah Greene, Anita Reeves and Amelia Crowley in Elaine Murphy’s “Little Gem,” one of the plays being featured in the Irish Cultural Center’s Theater Showcase. Anyone who sees the way the character Mingey stands right at the opening of the … Read More
The Tempest
Stephen Dillane as Prospero on the left and Christian Camargo as Ariel in the center with the rest of the cast. Photo: Joan Marcus, 2010 Sam Mendes’s production of The Tempest is to Parisian theater what Avatar was to cinema … Read More
Une Fable sans Importance
Nikola Carton gives an exceptional performance as a man who thinks he is the reincarnation of Wilde. Last week, I saw the star-studded A Little Night Music by the legendary Stephen Sondheim at the sold-out Théâtre du Châtelet and a … Read More
The Tempest
STUFF OF DREAMS Shakespeare’s The Tempest, considered by many to be the playwright’s most poetic play, is being performed in Russian with French subtitles at the Les Gémeaux theater in Sceaux, in a co-production of the Chekov International Theater Festival … Read More