JULES DE BALINCOURT {youtube width=”300″ height=”220″}tTJrXk0kmWM{/youtube} Jules de Balincourt talks about his exhibition “Worlds Together, Worlds Apart” at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris (through July 2). Video by Nikolaï Saoulski. Click here for larger screen. Favorite
The Funny Side ofPlanet France Sebastian Marx applies his comic talents to cultural translation. If you are in town on a Friday night and want a witty dissection of life on planet France, Sebastian Marx’s New Yorker in Paris comedy … Read More
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
