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

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 ...

Tartuffe or The Hypocrite by Molière, directed by Ivo Van Hove, will be staged at La Grande Halle de la Villette from May 21 to July 11, 2026. This streamlined adaptation focuses on the crisis ...

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 ...

In an innovative and risk-taking 400th anniversary season, Ivo van Hove and others explore the comic master’s endless variety In the foyer of the Comédie-Française in Paris stands a glass box, almost ...

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.