2024

THÉÂTRE DE LA GAÎTÉ-MONTPARNASSE

Theater
4/5
3 reviews

A rococo facade and garlands and painful masks: no doubt, when you enter here, we are sure that there will be from the show! It is what already guests of this address said that has a century and a half of existence. From materials recovered from the demolition site of the theatre of the Exhibition of 1867, the keeper of a bar François Jamin built a café-concert in rue de la Gaîté. Le Concert de la Gaîté-Montparnasse opens in 1868. Georges Dorfeuil son takes what over at the beginning of the 20th century and brilliantly young artists including Maurice Chevalier and Georgius. During the Roaring Twenties, the room offers song recitals, bare one, dramas, all without visible logic. La Gaîté becomes a variety of room where singers and chansonniers occur: Roger Nicolas, Fred Adisson, Gina Manès... In 1945, the actress Agnès Capri, who played at Jouvet and Pitoëff, they setup a theatre of avant-garde where a young called novice Marie-Juliette Gréco passes. After a closed at the beginning of the year 1950, the adventure started again in 1958 with Michel Fagadau. Until 1978, it manages the room and showcases much shows. Then, variety theatre and share the poster: Do and Valley, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Luis Rego, Le Père Noël is a refuse, by Beautiful... The large actors passed by all the Gaîté since: Catherine Rich, Pierre Arditi, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fanny Ardant, Niels Arestrup...

Read more
2024

THÉÂTRE LE GUICHET MONTPARNASSE

Theater
4/5
1 review

Since the 1980s, this small, 50-seat theater, which in the 1950s premiered plays by audacious authors such as Genet and/or foreigners, has been presenting shows by young talent - authors, actors, directors, companies. Since 2002, we've been offering training workshops that provide conditional access to the Guichet Montparnasse stage. This venue also offers shows for young audiences.

Read more
2024

THÉÂTRE DE LA CITÉ INTERNATIONALE

Theater
4/5
1 review

Three rooms - four hundred and eighteen, two hundred and thirty and one hundred and thirty-four places - are the theatre located in the famous and green Cité internationale universitaire, which hosts foreign students. There are theatre and dance exhibits, as well as new circus and puppet shows, visual and video arts exhibitions, as well as concerts. Conferences, meetings, internships, open rehearsals, readings are open to spectators and professionals alike. The origin of the theatre dates back to 1968. Have gone on for four decades: Jérôme Savary, Bread and Rosetta, Victor Garcia, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Marie Paw…

Read more
2024

LA COMÉDIE ITALIENNE

Theater
4/5
1 review

Since 1980, the Italian Comedy has been established in a former commissariat. A nearby boutique has been attached to expand the entrance hall. This room of a hundred seats exclusively from the pieces of Italian, Classical and Contemporary authors, many of which have never been presented in France. His founders are actress Hélène Lestrade and director Attilio Maggiulli, former student of the Piccolo Teatro of Milan past the Comédie-Française and the Sun Theatre of Ariane Clown. He is a specialist in the Commedia dell'arte, who founded the Teatrino Italiano from Montparnasse in 1974 on rue du Maine. Pantomimes, texts by Ovid, Goldoni, Machiavelli, Casanova, Malaparte, Gramci, Pavese or Pasolini were mounted here in French. In addition, a school of Italian commedia issues courses and organizes courses in this unique place.

Read more
2024

THÉÂTRE RIVE GAUCHE

Theater
3/5
1 review

A former cabaret theatre, this site was created in 1986 by Alain Mallet, the father café and theatre owner of Edgar. In the room of 400 seats were seen from shows as Hell of Hell, from Jean Noël Fenwick with Anemone, Le Century, from Michèle Laurence with Patachou, La Nuit du Titanic, from Michel Pascal with Bernard-Pierre Donadieu, Marcel raised in Paris, I am a salmon, from and by Philippe Avron, the Avignon of Avignon, Jaime Salom, with Catherine Allegret and still L'L L'Avignon Dresser, of Ronald Harwood with Laurent Terzieff. It is noted that before 1994 the theatre was called the Grand Théâtre of Edgar.

Read more
2024

THÉÂTRE MONTPARNASSE

Theater
2/5
1 review

There were several entertainment establishments since 1817, on the site where the current room - seven hundred square places - was built in 1886. She was marked by the period during which Gaston Baty led her, from 1930 to 1943. He set up classics and opened his stage to productions such as the'Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. In the following years, the Montparnasse theatre will allow many Anglo-Saxon authors to make themselves known in France: Peter Schaffer, Arnold Wesker, Noël Coward, Harold Pinter, Murray Schisgal… Myriam de Colombi has been leading the room since 1984. Among the shows she presented to us are: The Night Watchman, by Sacha Guitry, with Yasmina Reza and Fabrice Luchini, Le Secret, with Anny Duperey, Pierre Vaneck and Fabrice Luchini, Real Life, from Tom Stoppard, with Pierre Arditi, Evelyne Bouix, Catherine Rich, La Boutique au corner, from Ernst Lubitsch, with Florence Pernel, Samuel Labarthe, Jean-François Derec, Wojtek Psoniak… Le Petit Montparnasse - two hundred places - was created in 1979 in a former frame warehouse. It has created new talents. Trials have been carried out there, some of which have been successful.

Read more