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 ...

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It was Louis XIV's penchant for dance from an early age that led to the creation of the Paris Opéra's specific pension program. The sovereign, who performed in public for the first time at the age of ...

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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 ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This essay examines how commercialization transformed theater in eighteenth-century France. It explores the ways acting companies restructured ...

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 ...

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.