Village halls and multi-purpose halls Paris

It laughs every evening in this ancient theatre in the basement and transformed into a-seat theatre hall. Notice the Afters of laughter: There is a sort of jam jam during which comics meet the time of late evening.

Well-known acoustics, red velvet curtains, a balcony with impeccable views of the scene, two thousand places… Olympia deserves its fame. His story is rather turbulent. There was on its site of the Russian mountains, and then a first Olympia from 1893 where all the stars of the caf period were passed: La Goulue, Frehel, Damia… The room is then converted into a cinema before becoming the Parisian music Hall temple in 1954 when the daring Bruno Coquatrix takes the lead. A legendary period begins with the performances of the young Gilbert Bécaud. All the French and foreign stars want to climb on the scene of this place that became mythical, especially after Edith Piaf touched thousands of spectators. The Beatles, Umm Kalsoum - for its only recital outside the Arab world - Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Louis Armstrong, the Rolling Stones… History fails to stop in the 1990 s when the owner, Société Générale, plans to demolish the block of buildings where Olympia is located. Classified in 1993, it is finally reconstituted 6 metres below its original location, while the facade is preserved. This curious operation took place in 1997, Bécaud was the first to sing in this new Olympia, a room that was bought by the multinational Vivendi Universal in 2001.

This funny history that of the Semicolon. In 1975, a group of youth actors like Martin Lamotte, Gérard Lanvin or Anemone build a place called "La Veuve Pichard". Three years later, Christian Varini follows the theater and creates the Semicolon. It became famous in the tea Trempoint, stage discovered comedians still today place on saturdays at 16:00. Since 2005, Jean-Marc Dumontet managed with passion this cult place and continues to provide the best burlesque scene. Shows of Nicolas Canteloup or Alex Lutz were particularly produced by Dumontet. Each year, the best comedians find themselves in Olympia for a unique sight. This is how the smallest of the Parisian rooms is one of the great names of the capital...

Red velvet, drapes, golden frames and old chandeliers: this place created at the bottom of a court in 1993 is decorated in a baroque way. It's mainly used for private events, but we regularly serve a rich auditorium of comics, including Wednesday evening for Les Oscars du Laughter. The following went: Jean-Luc Lemoine, Thierry Samitier, Fabrice Eboué, Willy… The famous singers are not the same: Werewolf or Natacha Saint-Pierre also foulé the planks of this place which made one (pre) name in the capital.

Listed as a historic monument, with its curious white facade featuring only a few windows, this is one of Paris's musical landmarks, in one of the capital's most vibrant districts. This Italian-style theater, with its 1,400 seats, parterre and balcony, is an eclectic stage for all kinds of artists. Lots of music, of course, but also shows. Note also that the Boule Noire, in the basement, also organizes concerts, albeit on a more intimate scale.

The Petit Casino opened its doors in 1969 in a former plumbing shop between Beaubourg and the Place des Vosges. We played the Obaldia, for example, and then fanciful such as Sylvie Joly, Douby, Pascal Legitimus or Paul Préboist made it a renowned address in the coffee-theater category. It is a unique and atypical place where each reservation is made by telephone, and where the welcome is made by Hélène. A beautiful evening of laughter in perspective!

Adjacent to the Republic's Cellar, this long-seat room has been installed instead of a playroom. On the walls you can see representations of faces of a few great names of comedy. Perhaps their cadets, who play in the evening on this scene, want to see their portrait soon! The pieces of the boulevard are at the honor of the success of the last two years, My sister is a millstone. Here is a place to relax between friends and with lightness.

It was the first flexible dining room of the capital, before Le Zénith and the POPB. Opened in 1960, Palais des Sports welcomed important events in the domain of boxing, for example, and the services of the basketball players of Harlem globetrotters. This space in the arena shape that can accommodate between two thousand five hundred and four thousand spectators six hundred was also made known while looking to see and include Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Johnny Hallyday... And then also by allowing the creation of shows king size like Robert Hossein. It is also that of choreographies Maurice Béjart, Roland Petit were created, Rudolf Noureev musicals, such as Les Misérables and stage where the troops of Holiday On Ice or the Circus of Moscow made. Much less funny: Palais des Sports was requisitioned, just as the Coubertin stadium, so that you can park it Algerian citizens challenged during the dreadful night of October 17th 1961. Some died here. Today, the musical with large budgets and the comedians perform in this palace that has aged but who resists...

Born in 1895, the Trianon-Concert is one of the first Parisian music halls. Destroyed alongside its neighbour Elysée Montmartre in 1900, it was rebuilt two years later and was successively named Trianon-Theatre, Theatre Victor Hugo and finally Trianon. It presented to the public as artists such as transformist Fregoli and the young Mistinguett. Transformed into a cinema in 1939, it returned to live performances in 1992. It was given a theater room, classical concerts, but it is its programming dominated by tracks - Bénabar, Jacques Higelin ... Carla Bruni - the only one on stage, and the musical comedy presented by Trianon is now renowned. In 2010, the room was completely restored in order to preserve the heritage. It is open to international artists and can receive up to 1500 people and 1080 people on seated configuration. In our opinion, the Trianon is one of the most beautiful establishments in the capital.

This historic café-théâtre nestles behind a porte cochère in the courtyard of a former coaching inn. In the early days, a band of young acrobats created an artistically ambitious company. From the late 1970s onwards, the four-hundred-and-fifty-seat venue hosted an increasing number of shows by comedians and singers from other parts of the world, revealing a host of talents, including CharlElie Couture, Richard Gotainer, Smaïn, Marc Jolivet, Marianne Sergent, Chevallier et Laspalès and Benoît Poelvoorde...

The history of the Théâtre des Blancs-Manteaux began in 1972. A mecca for café-théâtre humor and non-conformist chanson, it has welcomed Renaud, Jacques Higelin, Alex Métayer, Michèle Laroque, Virginie Lemoine, Marianne James, Anne Roumanoff... Today, humor is still the strong point of this small theater, which comprises two rooms, each with around one hundred seats. The first is housed in a vaulted cellar, while the second is fully tiered.

More than ten years after its opening, the challenge has largely been met. Indeed, the Centquatre brings together in a single, very large space, various sites of artistic creation and production open to all disciplines, and which offer various shows, screenings, readings, performances, exhibitions, workshops for young people or adults... What a lively place, on the very spot where the municipal undertaker's service - a building dating back to 1873 - was in operation until 1997. The Centquatre, or 104, which is a place of art, you have understood, is also a place of life. Restaurants, brasseries and shops are spread out in the immensity of the place.

Les Deux Étangs is a restaurant located in Paris, more precisely at Porte-Dauphine, on the Route de l'Étoile. This establishment boasts an exceptional historic setting, having once been the "Cercle des Patineurs" in the Bois de Boulogne. It has retained its charm of yesteryear and offers a magnificent view over the ponds. Visitors can enjoy the countryside right in the heart of the city, whether from the terrace or the winter garden. Les Deux Étangs offers quality cuisine and invites guests to discover a unique culinary experience. For those wishing to travel by car, there is a parking lot in Ville-d'Avray, located on rue de Versailles.

After years of neglect, the site was finally restored to its former splendor a few years ago. In 2007, the owners, including the Vardar brothers, undertook major renovations, bearing in mind that Le Palace is a listed building. Since then, one show follows another, and the venue is always packed. The program is mainly comedy-oriented, but there are also some unique shows, such as the immersive one based on the work of Michel Polnareff.

It is very difficult to find an artist of any renown that the curriculum would not indicate a passage through Le Zenith. Either in front of a festival, or at a festival, of a support party to this or that. The programming is mainly oriented towards all forms of popular music: songs, rock, reggae, rap… At each concert, large crowds pass through a lot of the park of La Villette to join this strange construction of a metal frame covered with a silver canvas. Inside, it can accommodate up to six thousand people. The room is adjustable. So you can find yourself in a more or less large area, with seating seats or promenoirs. One of the strengths of the Zenith is that visibility remains correct. There is never more than 50 metres between you and the scene.

Le Zenith is the first new equipment to have opened its doors in the park of La Villette. Inaugurated in 1984, it is the work of architects Philippe Chaix and Jean-Paul Morel. The first artist to have occurred there is Renaud. It was for the then Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, that he was created. For a good time, the capital needed a large space to be organized with great concerts for young people. There was another installation for electric and hairy music: Pantin Racecourse, a top where the best formations of the 1970 s, babas, hard and punk, from Gong to The Clash, passing through Trust. Barbara went on as well. But it eventually gives way to this Zenith, whose concept is now declining in sixteen major French cities.

At the mecca of French-songs created in 1947 by Jacques Canetti, great talent scout, Les Trois Baudets has seen young people such as Jacques Brel, Georges Brassens, Serge Gainsbourg, Juliette Greco, Mouloudji, Jacques Higelin as well as humourist like Raymond Devos go through its stage ... Nothing else! Replaced in 1967 by the Topless erotic cabaret, which became Erotika in 1978, it closed its doors in 1996. An association called Toto & Co then struggled so that the room can again open its doors. The City of Paris has embarked on the rehabilitation of the site; the architectural project was entrusted to the agency Anthony Béchu, the same which was responsible for the reconstruction of Olympia in 1997. Reopened in 2009, the room offers two hundred and fifty seats on two levels, a working space, a restaurant, a bar and a fireplace. To ensure a perfect soundproofing, the room is "locked" in a box set on stilts. As for the programming, it returns to the origins of the Trois Baudets. The song is featured with emerging talents of the French scene, those who are in the middle of ford, struggling between real careers.

It was once... a lyon industrialist about the East and Asia. Emile Guimet - 1836-1918 - presented first his collections in the city, then had a museum in Paris. Opened in 1889, it specialises in the presentation of works of art from the Far East. Its auditorium of two hundred and eighty locations offers live music, dance, theatre, puppets, of shadow theatre, film screenings, meetings and conferences in addition to the temporary exhibitions, donations or acquisitions.

Opened in 2001, Providence introduces unknown artists and writers, or to become: one man shows, some comedies and comics'trays are on the program. Please note that the former chairs of the Grand Rex are sitting here! The room - seats - is located at the intersection of the Rues, Equerre and Pradier streets. It gives theatre classes. A place to discover, especially if one wishes to take a name in the comic scene… and follow the footsteps of Jérémy Ferrari!

It is not strictly a concert room, but a set of studios that took the name of Micadanses - the places allowed the contemporary Theatre of La Danse to be held. However, there are various benefits, including creations of artists in residence. Amateurs of contemporary dance are welcome. Important: as the number of spectators is reduced, the place must be reserved. In addition, spaces at this site host events at festivals as Winter facts - Authors'Dances.

Comic'Hall presents young comics. You don't pay at the entrance but at the exit. This address is directed by the same team as Providence.