Jean-Paul Sartre News

The next Musical Theatre Melodies broadcast, hosted by Rob Morrison on 96.5 FM on Tuesday, November 2 will mark the 60th anniversary of the Robert Wright and George Forrest musical KEAN (from a play by Jean-Paul Sartre and the comedy by Alexandre Dumas).

THE CHAIRS is an absurdist 'tragic farce' by Eugène Ionesco. It was written in 1952 and debuted the same year. THE CHAIRS concerns two characters, known as Old Man and Old Woman, frantically preparing chairs for a series of invisible guests who are coming to hear an orator reveal the Old Man's discovery.

Possum Point Players affiliate, On the Edge, presents the award-winning Will Abery drama 'Heroes of the Fourth Turning' for a limited staging Friday, August 20 and Saturday, August 21.

The three exhibits include: IN FOCUS:  PROTEST at the J. Paul Getty Museum, CHRONICLES OF OUR CULTURE at Aziz Gallerie in Leimert Park Village, and CAPTURING BEAUTY: THE ARTWORK AND PHOTOGRAPHY OF JOHN SIMMONS at The Jean Deleage Gallery at CASA 0101 Theater.

A window into the running of a small theatre company pre-pandemic, and the making of a fringe theatre show, IN Exchange is a feature length documentary chronicling the highs and lows of Exchange Theatre Company producing Molière's Misanthrope at London's Camden People's Theatre in 2018.

RACHAEL & VILRAY come to Boulder Theater, Sunday, July 11, 2021. Tickets on sale on Friday, May 21 at 10am.

Nancy Manocherian's the cell theatre has announced their programming for 2021, which will include collaborations with local and regional artists including One Whale's Tale (Founders Camilo Quiroz-Vazquez and Ellpetha Tsivicos), Amy Engelhardt, The Playhouse at White Lake, Off The Wall Productions, and HOLDTIGHT company.

 FUSION THEATRE NYC has announced a new production scheduled to stream this month. 'No Exit' is the play penned by the father of Existentialist philosophy, Jean Paul Sartre. It was first performed during the Nazi occupation of Paris as a one-act play, to ensure that theater goers could get home before curfew.

La Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de México y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) lamentan el deceso del primer actor Ricardo Blume,  ocurrido este viernes a los 87 años de edad, en la ciudad de Querétaro. 

Considerado por Octavio Paz “como uno de los poetas más complejos”, el escritor mexicano Jaime Augusto Shelley falleció este día en la Ciudad de México a los 83 años de edad. 

If you thought lockdown was hell, wait until you experience Hell in its truest form, as Mid-World Players brings Jean-Paul Sartre's NO EXIT into the 'comfort' of your own home. Immerse yourself into a world, much like your own, where no end is in sight.

Experience Theatre Project, in artistic association with Lacy Productions, is proud to introduce a new, virtual, immersive salon called Le Chat Noir Moderne, or a?oeThe Modern Black Cat,a?? a contemporary take on the classic Parisian entertainment establishment Le Chat Noir.

Experience Theatre Project, in artistic association with Lacy Productions, is proud to introduce a new, unique online nightclub called Le Chat Noir Moderne, or a?oeThe Modern Black Cat,a?? a contemporary take on the classic Parisian entertainment establishment Le Chat Noir. 

Jonathan Taylor Productions announces Jean-Paul Sartre's The Respectable Prostitute directed by Lisa Forrell. The production opens at The Playground Theatre on 21 May, with previews from 20 May, and runs until 6 June.

The Playground Theatre has announced its early Summer season with three very different shows, traveling from ancient Greece, to 1940s America, to 1980s Paris. The season opens with Fragments, which pieces together a long-lost Euripides play from pieces of papyrus, followed by The Respectable Prostitute, where powerful people spread false truths for their personal ambition and closes with Blue Electric directed by Hugh Hudson, who directed the 1981 film Chariots of Fire.

'No Exit' itself is a wonderful source material, and it was intriguing to hear Live Garra Theatre's plans to update and add an escape room element to the famous play. I walked into this show excited to see a new, modern twist on one of my favourite plays. Instead, I walked out incredibly disappointed.

El 22 de octubre se cumplen nueve años de la muerte del poeta, ensayista, crítico, traductor, editor, corrector y tipógrafo nayarita Alí Chumacero, quien dijo: “Como la estatua dueña de su espacio, asentada en la quietud, la poesía desvanece el misterio de la desaparición”.

The newly formed Navigation Theatre Company is kicking off the 2019-20 season dedicated to producing local playwrights with a presentation of Buffalo-based writer Mark Humphrey's 'The Kindness of Strangers'. In association with the Compass Performing Arts Center, this world debut opens on October 24th and runs to November 16th. Showtimes are 8 pm Thursdays and Fridays, 5 pm on Saturdays. There will be a special 'Industry Night' on November 16th at 8 pm. Ticket prices are $20 GA/$15 Student, Military and Industry. For online ticket information visit https://kindnessofstrangers.bpt.me/ or call the box office at 716-697-0837.

Straight from a clamorously successful run in the City of Lights (and capital of style), Jean Paul Gaultier: Fashion Freak Show comes to London to celebrate fashion's most renowned enfant terrible. The two-hour raucus revue is hard to define and absolutely impossible to pigeonhole.

Eccentric, scandalous, provocative, exuberant and as funny as ever, fashion's enfant terrible presents his new creation: part revue, part catwalk show.