France Theater Reviews: Best Shows & Critic Recommendations Page 2

Review: GENE KELLY SUR LA 42ÈME RUE at Radio De La Musique
by Patrick Honoré - January 14, 2023

The fifth edition of '42ème rue fait son show !' celebrates one of Paris's favorite Americans....

Review: ISABELLE GEORGE at Bal Blomet and La Nouvelle Eve
by Patrick Honoré - January 12, 2023

Isabelle Georges' Broadway concert at the Bal Blomet and Oh là là ! at La Nouvelle Eve...

Review: CABARET at Lido 2
by Patrick Honoré - January 09, 2023

A new production of the classic musical for a limited run in Paris. Don't miss in...

Review: 42ND STREET at Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

After two postponements, the revival of the 2016 Châtelet production of 42nd Street is finally on till January 15th, with a brand-new cast but the same creative team as the original. Stephen Mear had already directed and choreographed the piece for the Parisian public six years ago. In the meantime ...

Review: SILVANO JO: TOUTES LES FEMMES DE MA VIE
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

Silvano Jo performs multiple roles in this one-man cabaret, a journey through the hidden gems of French café and cabaret songs....

Review: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS at Opéra Comique
by Patrick Honoré - December 27, 2022

In sync with the off-Broadway revival currently playing in New York until 2024 comes to the Opéra Comique the first legitimate Paris revival of the 1986 French adaptation of The Little Shop of Horrors by the late Alain Marcel, which first opened at the Théâtre Dejazet in June and then transferred to...

Review: ELISABETH at Château Du Karreveld
by Patrick Honoré - August 28, 2022

The worldwide hit about the Austrian Empress performed in French at the Bruxellons! Festival in Belgium....

Review: LOVE SONGE THERAPIE at Lucernaire
by Patrick Honoré - July 09, 2022

What did our critic think of LOVE SONGE THÉRAPIE at Lucernaire?...

Review: Les Trophees De La Comedie Musicale at Casino De Paris
by Patrick Honoré - July 05, 2022

What did our critic think of LES TROPHÉES DE LA COMÉDIE MUSICALE at Casino De Paris? After two years of absence, Les Trophées de la comédie musicale are getting bigger and bigger, from no live audience at the Trévise Theatre in its first annual production, to the first live version three years ago, ...

Review: JE VAIS T'AIMER at La Seine Musicale
by Patrick Honoré - July 05, 2022

What did our critic think of JE VAIS T'AIMER at La Seine Musicale? Originally set to open in fall 2021, the Michel Sardou juke-box musical is the first French big spectacular to hit the capital since Covid. Following a brief tour, it is playing a limited season at the huge Seine Musicale Auditorium ...

BWW Review: SONDHEIM TRIBUTE at Studio De L'Accord Parfait
by Patrick Honoré - May 11, 2022

American Musical Theater Live continues to carry Broadway's flame in Paris....

BWW Review: MIXITY at Théatre Lepic
by Patrick Honoré - March 07, 2022

18 years after his successful musical revue Zapping at the Théâtre du Gymnase before transferring to the Olympia and the Trianon, Bruno Agati is back with another off the wall production, this time focusing on gender ambiguity and digging more deeply into the inner psyche of its writer-director-chor...

BWW Review: TAP VIRTUOSO at Théâtre Du Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - February 11, 2022

Aurélien taps to classical music at the Châtelet Theater....

BWW Review: COLORED LIGHTS at Port-Royal Temple
by Patrick Honoré - January 26, 2022

Quadruple threat Dalia Constantin in an initimate autobiographical one-woman show....

BWW Review: COLE PORTER IN PARIS at Théâtre Du Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - December 30, 2021

Cole Porter, the most Francophile of the big five American composers of the American songbook, with Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, and Richard Rodgers, spent almost a decade in Paris just after World War I immersing himself French language and culture and developing his craft as a comp...

BWW Review: THE PRODUCERS at Théâtre De Paris
by Patrick Honoré - December 05, 2021

The best French-language musical of the century so far....

BWW Review: SIMPLY MUSICALS at L'Auguste Théâtre
by Patrick Honoré - November 30, 2021

November has been a very busy month for musical theater in Paris. On top of the big shows opening at Mogador, Théâtre du Gymnase, and Théâtre de Paris, the Auguste Théâtre has been hosting a very intimate musical entitled Simply Musicals: Manila, London, Paris. Produced by Pinoy Jam Paris in patners...

BWW Review: THE WILD PARTY at MPAA Saint-Germain-des-Près
by Patrick Honoré - November 20, 2021

Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party in Paris...

BWW Review: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY at Théâtre Du Gymnase
by Patrick Honoré - November 20, 2021

West End Hit Comes to Paris....

BWW Review: ATLANTICS ARTS at Comédie Nation
by Patrick Honoré - October 10, 2021

A week long celebration of Broadway in Paris....

BWW Review: BLAX THE MUSICAL at Lucernaire
by Patrick Honoré - September 29, 2021

Playing at the arthouse venue Le Lucernaire just off of Luxembourg Gardens until October 31st, you won't want to miss this wild, action packed, musical tribute to blaxploitation, soul, and funk....

BWW Review: BLOOD BROTHERS at Chateau de Karreveld
by Patrick Honoré - August 17, 2021

After a cancelled season, Bruxellons! Festival briefly decided to go ahead with what for francophones will be a delicious discovery of a show, despite production uncertainties and a lack of support from the Belgian government. How brave! We have to be thankful to them for the bold choice of presenti...

BWW Review: SINGIN IN THE RAIN at Opéra Massy
by Patrick Honoré - June 26, 2021

After several delays due to the pandemic, it was good to be back at the Massy Opéra, one of France's premiere musical theater venues now, after Cabaret and Into the Woods, this time for two performances (June 24th and 25th) of a brand-new Arts Lyrica production of Singin' in the Rain, spoken in Fren...

BWW Review: MAN OF LA MANCHA at Châtelet
by Patrick Honoré - June 12, 2021

For only four performances the past two weekends, the Châtelet in Paris was alive again with the sound of musicals we’ve been missing so much here. Boasting 2300 performances, and no less than four revivals on Broadway, Man of La Mancha ranks among the most performed musicals around the world. The...