A passé take on Georg Büchner’s 1835 play about the French Revolution leans into the worst instincts of the Comédie-Française, our critic writes. By Laura Cappelle Laura Cappelle is a Paris-based ...

A new leader for the Comédie-Française, Clément Hervieu-Léger, is an insider who looks set to keep the venerable Paris company on a steady course. By Laura Cappelle Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon ...

Protesters have called for deep rooted change at the Comédie-Française, the world's oldest running theatre company, to ...

Prouhèze (Marina Hands) and Balthazar (Laurent Stocker) in 'Le Soulier de satin,' by Paul Claudel, at the Comédie-Française. JEAN-LOUIS FERNANDEZ The return of Le Soulier de satin (The Satin Slipper) ...

During a costume sale at the Comédie-Française boutique in Paris, January 2024. COLL. COMÉDIE-FRANÇAISE On Thursday, February 1, shortly before noon under the arcades of the Palais-Royal, a small ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Cross-dressing has enjoyed less fortune on the French stage than across the Channel. In that context, the ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Frederick Wiseman, who turned 95 on New Year’s Day, is one of America’s most original and highly regarded ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Eric Ruf probably hoped for a more conclusive inauguration at the Comédie-Française. So far, the first season he has ...

Paris is crammed with sites of Jewish interest. While some are obvious — the shops on the Rue des Rosiers or the Holocaust memorial at Drancy — others come as more of a surprise. The Comédie-Française ...

A hearing this month allowed one of France's most important theatre's to dismiss controversial actor Nâzim Boudjenah. But it's too little, too late for the movement against male violence in the arts.