La Cage aux Folles continues at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris until 11 January 2026. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ It successfully reconnects the musical to its French theatrical roots while addressing contemporary questions of identity and acceptance.
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French production of Les Misérables will tour before its Châtelet return
The French version of Les Miserables, a huge success during its six-week spin at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before Christmas, is off on its travels next year before returning by public demand to the Châtelet at the end of 2026.
Les Misérables – Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Les Misérables continues at Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris until 2 January 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This new production may at last help French audiences make peace with arguably the greatest French musical ever made.
Hello, Dolly! in a tale of two cities
Hello, Dolly! is just like London buses – you wait ages for one to come along, and then two suddenly pitch up at the same time. With Jerry Herman’s classic musical comedy, it’s been a long wait – Dolly Levi was last sighted in the West End 15 years ago – but finally the matchmaking widow is back where she belongs in a tale of two cities.
Théâtre du Châtelet celebrates amazing attendance figures for West Side Story
The enduring popularity of West Side Story, now well into its seventh decade, has hit new peaks with the just-ended ten-week run of the Bernstein-Sondheim-Robbins-Laurents musical at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris.
West Side Story – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
West Side Story continues at Theatre du Châtelet, Paris until 31 December 2023. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩
New French language Les Misérables to debut in Paris
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Les Misérables will return to Paris over four decades after its debut with major new French language production at the Théâtre du Châtelet.
‘We’ll always have Paris’: Cabaret – Lido2 / 42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet
They might (just) be able to beat us at football but British-based casts sure as hell get their own back with Kander and Ebb’s stupendous Cabaret at the sparkling new Lido2 on the Champs-Elysees and a long-delayed revival of tap-tap-tap triumphant 42nd Street at the regal Theatre du Chatelet down by the Seine.
Paris return for Stephen Mear’s 42nd Street
Director and choreographer Stephen Mear’s critically acclaimed version of classic backstage musical comedy 42nd Street will return to the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris later this year. First seen in 2016 and originally due to return to the prestigious French venue in 2021, the production’s limited encore season will run from 7 December 2022 until 15 […]
Theatre du Chatelet to host Cole Porter in Paris
There’s a Cole Porter treat awaiting lovers of musical theatre thinking of going to Paris over Christmas and New Year in the shape of a 105-minute revue at the famous Theatre du Chatelet. No full-scale American musical like Singin’ in the Rain (a festive favourite with the French) this year but a confection called Cole […]
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris
Musical theatre is bustin’ out all over in Paris these autumn days and American actress-impersonator Christina Bianco opens tonight (Thursday) in Funny Girl at the gloriously refurbished Marigny just off the Champs Elysees. Bianco plays old-time Broadway comedienne Fanny Brice in the only part Barbra Streisand ever performed on the West End stage back in […]
Interview: Leanne Cope on the ‘story of hope, love & friendship’ that is An American in Paris and the show’s cinema screenings this week
Fans of An American in Paris will be able to watch the stage musical up close when it hits cinemas this week. The show premiered in 2014 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris before transferring to the Palace Theatre on Broadway, where it became the most awarded musical of the 2015/16 season, including four […]
Is the success of Singin’ in the Rain a sign Paris audiences are getting the musical theatre bug?
Singin’ in the Rain completed its six-week run in the nave of the Grand Palais in Paris earlier on this month and proved itself the most popular English-language musical since the Theatre du Chatelet started bringing one over every year. The powers-that-be at the1,800-seat Chatelet, closed for two years for elaborate refurbishment, daringly revived their Christmas show (which had two spins […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Singin’ in the Rain continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 11 January 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ For the third season, the Chatelet in-house production of Singin’ in the Rain is back for Christmas, but as the theatre itself is in the process of being refurbished, this six-week […]
Tributes paid to opera and theatre director Lee Blakeley
The international theatre community has been paying tribute to British opera and theatre director Lee Blakeley who died suddenly at the weekend. Known for his work on successful Stephen Sondheim productions at Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, Blakeley directed the French premiere of Sondheim’s Sunday in the Park With George and an acclaimed production of […]
Singin’ in the Rain at the Grand Palais for Paris Christmas treat
The Theatre du Chatelet’s obsession with bringing the great American musicals to Paris in their original language is stalled for the next two years while the place undergoes a massive refurbishment – but it doesn’t mean the city will be starved of one of its favourite shows. While it is shut, the Chatelet is sending […]
42nd Street – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
42nd Street continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 8 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Now here’s a great idea for a Christmas present (especially if someone else pays for it): best seats at the glorious 1,800-seater Chatelet on the banks of the Seine, Eurostar tickets (cheap right now) and […]
Double helping of 42nd Street – first stop Theatre du Chatelet in Paris
While London readies itself for a March revival of 42nd Street, the musical that propelled Catherine Zeta-Jones to stardom in 1984, Paris gets in first with a seven-week English-language run of the same show at the Theatre du Chatelet from 17 November to 8 January. Stephen Mear will be directing a Chatelet cast headed by […]
42nd Street at Theatre du Chatelet – Ria Jones leads the cast
Ria Jones, the supersub who played Norma Desmond to rave reviews and standing ovations when Glenn Close went sick for a number of performances of Sunset Boulevard at the London Coliseum at the end of April, gets a starring role in her own right in Paris in November. Jones plays Dorothy Brock in the Theatre […]
Stephen Mear stages 42nd Street at Theatre du Chatelet
Stephen Mear, who danced in the original London production of 42nd Street in the 1980s, is to direct and choreograph a revival of the famed showbiz musical in Paris in November (he recently choreographed Singin’ in the Rain at the venue). The show launched Catherine Zeta-Jones’ career when, as a 17-year-old, she was pitched from the […]
Passion – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Passion continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 24 March. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Persuading Natalie Dessay, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-loved operatic sopranos, to play the unattractive and hysterical Fosca in Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s 1994 Tony Award-winning Passion has to go down as […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Kiss Me, Kate continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 12 February. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Parisians are being given just ten chances to catch the only Cole Porter musical that ran more than a thousand performances on Broadway (and won a 1949 Tony) and now that’s down to […]
Exclusive – soprano Natalie Dessay will star in Sondheim’s Passion at Theatre du Chatelet
The Theatre du Chatelet in Paris has pulled off quite a coup in signing the world-acclaimed French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay to sing Fosca in their fifth Stephen Sondheim production, Passion, next spring. There was no Sondheim this year after A Little Night Music (2011), Sweeney Todd (2012), Sunday in the Park With George (2013) and Into the Woods (2014), but […]
Singin’ in the Rain – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 26 March and returns there from 27 November 2015 to 15 January 2016. Star rating: 4 stars ★ ★ ★ ★ It’s raining Gene Kelly at the Chatelet with the pre-Christmas stage premiere of his 1951 masterpiece An American in Paris (now transferred to Broadway) quickly […]
An American in Paris – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
An American in Paris continues at the Theatre du Chatelet, Paris until 4 January. Where else but gay Paree to launch the world premiere of a musical inspired by An American in Paris, the 1951 movie with those unforgettable Gene Kelly dance sequences that won six Oscars and is as much loved today as it […]
The King and I – Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
The King And I continues at Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, until 29 July. The World Cup has not been the Chatelet’s best friend for the original-language Paris premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I but the stay-at-homes who missed this exquisite, no-expense-spared masterpiece to snore their way through a goalless French bore-draw made a serious […]
Lambert Wilson cast in Yul Brynner role in The King and I
French film star Lambert Wilson is to play the Yul Brynner role in The King and I for 18 performances at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris from 13-29 June. This is the third Rodgers and Hammerstein show the Chatelet has staged, following The Sound of Music (twice) and Carousel. Wilson is best known internationally for playing the part […]
