Huis Clos
A Pleasant Evening in Sartrean Hell The Théâtre du Nord-Ouest on the busy Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, just off Paris’s Grands Boulevards, has definitely seen better days. The peeling paint and dilapidated Favorite
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Le Pont des Soupirs, Offenbach
BRIDGE OF SIGHS Scene from “Le Pont des Soupirs.” Photo © Gilles Plagnol for Les Tréteaux Lyriques. For an entertaining if intellectually undemanding experience, you could do far worse than go to the 150th anniversary staging of Jacques Offenbach’s … Read More
Upcoming concerts in Paris
Pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic. Julien Lourau and Bojan Z at Salle Pleyel: Pianist Bojan Zulfikarpasic and saxophonist Julien Loureau and their respective bands, Tetraband and Quartet Saigon, will each play a set, then the two musicians will perform as a … … Read More
Love Is My Sin & Macbeth
Three rather unusual witches in Serge Poncelet’s production of Macbeth. Shakespeare appears to be ever-present in one form or another on the Paris stage. Two very different current productions – one a recital of a selection of the Bard’s sonnets … Read More
Upcoming concerts in Paris
Anitya at Studio de l’Ermitage: The Anitya ensemble, led by Christophe Cagnolari, comprises musicians, dancers and actors, and uses the soundpainting technique of structured improvisation, in which the leader communicates what type of improvisation is called for via a language … Read More
SERAPHINE ON SHOW
SERAPHINE ON SHOW The success of the biopic Séraphine, winner of this year’s César award for best film and six other prizes, has aroused curiosity about the work of the painter it is based on, a housemaid named Séraphine Louis. … Read More
Upcoming concerts in Paris
Klezmer Madness at Salle Pleyel: Clarinetist David Krakauer’s Klezmer Madness! adds elements of many kinds of jazz, funk, rock and hip-hop – producer/rapper Socalled will be in the house for this … Favorite
Les Rendez-vous de la Danse
You would have had to have been living on the moon for the last decade not to have noticed the increasingly popularity of Oriental dance in the Western world. The number of shows, performers and dance … Favorite
This week’s concerts in Paris
Perry’s Music Picks Elysian Fields John Zorn and Tzadik present the music of Serge Gainsbourg at the Salle Pleyel: Composer and saxophonist John Zorn brings a collection of musicians from the Downtown New York scene to pay hommage to one … Read More
Paris Update The Lowdown
Paris Update The Lowdown Paris Update is taking its annual end-of-year break. We’ll be back on January 4, 2012. Bonnes fêtes! Paris Update, founded in 2005, is a free weekly Web newsletter designed to provide the latest information about what’s … Read More