The festival opener “Nôt,” from Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drew both boos and applause. Elsewhere, for Anne Teresa De ...

The Avignon theatre festival is a three-week concentration of performing arts – dance, drama, readings and debates – which is ...

Rising temperatures pose an existential threat to the theater extravaganza, where extreme heat is making it tough for the ...

For three weeks every summer, the streets of the southern French city of Avignon are overrun with performances of all kinds, ...

The impulse with Avignon’s Cour d’Honneur is to go big. Since the Festival’s inception in 1947, artists have attempted to ...

Choreographers Selma and Sofiane Ouissi appear only on screen in Laaroussa Quartet, now in performance at the Festival ...

Choreographers and poets from the Middle East and North Africa feature in the 79th edition's lineup, but playwrights remain ...

Events - In an unprecedented move on the international theatre scene, the renowned Avignon OFF Festival 2025, one of the ...

Originally approached by Avignon to mark their 25th anniversary as the European Capital of Culture, Jean-Michel Othoniel more ...

With his new work presented at the Festival d'Avignon, the Lebanese choreographer denounces the living conditions of domestic ...