Camping It Up in Improv’ andGenre-Bending Slapstick Cast members of the New improv’ company singing their hearts out. For fans of the anything-but-the-proscenium arch, the improvising New company is offering a musical on the hoof at the Theatre de la … Read More
From Swerve of Shore to Bend of Bay Sharif Andoura in Finnegan’s Wake at Paris’s Théâtre de l’Aquarium. Photo: Hervé Bellamy. Let the record show that I was somewhat worried about going to see James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake – not … Read More
French playwright Georges Feydeau specialized in a certain kind of humor that not everyone finds funny. Photo: Brigitte Enguérand A funny thing, humor. Either you get it or you don’t. Any amount of explanation or learned commentary is to no … Read More
PYGMALION IN PARIS Photo © Marie-Noëlle Robert – Théâtre du Châtelet When Eliza Doolittle (Sarah Gabriel alternating with Christine Arand) sings “I Could Have Danced All Night,” pure musical magic fills the stage, accomplishing the mission of Jean-Luc Choplin, director … Read More
Show Boat not only incorporates comedy, romance, and dance numbers, but also a political disquisition on slavery, racism and more. Photo: Malin Arnesson If you have a pulse that beats and a heart that feels, a lump will come to … Read More
Sylvain Savard as Massimo, husband of the long-suffering Antonia, played by Lou Tordjman. Photo © Compagnie Idéale As soon as I heard the tunefully sung opening to Récits de Femmes, I was hooked. I confess I went to the Théâtre … Read More
Left to right: Alexis Victor as Jerry, Sacha Petronijevic as Robert and Delphine Lalizout as Emma in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal. Harold Pinter in French is surely a non sequitur. A few playwrights – Alan Bennett, John Osborne and Tom Stoppard … Read More
Amélie Fans Beware Oct. 27, 2004: If you, like millions of others, loved Amélie, the film that managed to make Montmartre even more of a tourist attraction, that doesn’t mean you will love director Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s latest, “Un long dimanche … Read More
Alien Eyes Above: Zombie-like Charlotte Rampling catches the model couple kissing in the kitchen. Below: Charlotte Gainsbourg gets a shock. Photos: © Philippe Quaisse After all the hype at the current Cannes Film Festival and the success of Dominik Moll’s … Read More
Fear of Flying Marion Cotillard and Vincent Elbaz in Ma Vie en l’Air. Photo: © Alain Fillit Ma Vie en l’Air, the first feature film directed by Rémi Bezançon, gets off to a promising, quick-paced start, with a bitterweet Amélie-style … Read More
