Théâtre des Menus-Plaisirs (1866-1874 • 1877-1879 • 1882-1888) Théâtre des Arts (1874-1876 • 1879-1881) Opéra-Bouffe (1876-1877) Comédie-Parisienne (1881) Théâtre-Libre (1888-1897) | |
The Théâtre Antoine in 2007 | |
Address | 14 Boulevard de Strasbourg Paris |
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Coordinates | 48°52′14″N2°21′19″E / 48.870558°N 2.355367°E Coordinates: 48°52′14″N2°21′19″E / 48.870558°N 2.355367°E |
Capacity | 780 |
Opened | 1866 |
Website | |
www.theatre-antoine.com |
Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau is a theater located at 14 boulevard de Strasbourg in the 10th arrondissement of Paris.
The 10th arrondissement of Paris is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France. In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as dixième.
The 800-seat Italian Style theater was built in the year 1866. It functioned under a variety of names through the years, opening as Theatre des Menus-Plaisirs [1] (1866–1874, 1877–1879, 1882–1888), then Théâtre des Arts (1874–1876, 1879–1881), Opéra-Bouffe (1876–1877), and the Comédie-Parisienne (1881).
In 1888 it became the venue for the Théâtre Libre company of André Antoine. Although short-lived, lasting only eight years, the theater's pioneering naturalism proved extremely influential. Antoine departed in 1894 under financial pressure, the enterprise closed in 1896, but Antoine returned the following year to the renamed Théâtre Antoine [2] with a more deliberately provocative program that lasted until 1906.
The Théâtre Libre was a theatre company that operated from 1887 to 1896 in Paris, France.
André Antoine was a French actor, theatre manager, film director, author, and critic who is considered the father of modern mise en scène in France.
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The theater now bears the name of actress and director Simone Berriau, who presented the complete dramatic work of Jean-Paul Sartre here beginning in 1943. For instance the first production of his 1951 The Devil and the Good Lord opened here, directed by Louis Jouvet. On her death in 1984 her daughter Helena Bossis took charge; since the death of Bossis in 2008, her husband Daniel Dares has served as director.
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Théâtre des Arts may refer to:
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Eugène Grangé was a French playwright, librettist, chansonnier and goguettier.
Pierre Zaccone was a popular 19th-century French novelist.
Albert Millaud was a French journalist, writer and stage author, born in Paris, 13 January 1844, and died in the same city on 23 October 1892.
Jules-Louis-Olivier Métra, was a 19th-century French composer and conductor.
Alceste Anastasie Hortense Cœuriot, also known under the stage name Madame Ismaël, was a French operatic mezzo-soprano. Her professional career ran from 1850 to 1888 under the last name Ismaël, which was her husband Jean-Vital Jammes' stage name, and she would keep the stage name even after their divorce in 1860. Throughout her onstage roles, she mostly portrayed roles of comic old women, "duègne" roles, or "Dugazon" roles, which were of young mothers and women past youth.
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