FRE-THR 390 Race in French Theater was recently featured on Radio France in Tous en scène by Aurélie Charon on France Culture. Playwright Penda Diouf and scholar Sylvie Chalaye discussed their visit to Princeton for the course Race in French Theater taught by Florent Masse.

The play “Traces,” presented in the Marie and Edward Matthews ’53 Acting Studio on Sept. 19 and 20, began with the melodic sound of the kora, a West African string instrument. The lights illuminated the stage, spotlighting the musician Simon Winse. The music was a trance-inducing force that I felt I could listen to for hours. When actor Étienne…

Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, Department of French and Italian, and L’Avant-Scène will present the 11th edition of Seuls en Scène French Theater Festival, which will take place from September 9 to 23 at venues across the University’s campus. Most…

The Troupe of L'Avant-Scène, the company of the Department of French and Italian's French Theater Workshop at Princeton University, will perform its third and last play of the academic year, "Berlin mon garçon" by Marie NDiaye …

Essay by Amelia Parenteau  05 January 2021 Original Publication

I’m going to come right out and say it: I hate Zoom plays. That doesn’t mean I won’t watch Zoom plays, or that I…

This fall 2020, L’Avant-Scène offered a fully remote virtual season. The ninth annual edition of Seuls en Scène, Princeton French Theater Festival, a collaboration between the

Pascal Rambert, a celebrated French writer, choreographer and director for the stage and screen, has joined Princeton this spring as a Belknap Fellow in the Council of the Humanities and visiting lecturer in French and Italian.

In mid-February, L’Avant-Scène performed “La double inconstance,” one of Marivaux's most beloved comedies, at the Princeton University Art Museum. The production, directed by Florent Masse, featured seniors Isabel Leigh, James Tralie, Sherry Romanzi and Adnan Sachee; junior Donald Della Pietra; sophomore Anna Vinitsky; and freshman Joseph…

Guillaume Gallienne a Visiting Lecturer in the Humanities Council and Belknap Fellow in French and Italian (Spring 2018), a French Actor, and Director, Sociétaire of the Comédie-Française, recently discussed his teaching philosophy and lessons that he attempts to impart upon his students, with the Daily Princetonian's Katja Stroke-Adolphe.

Jin Yun Chow, a comparative literature major from Hong Kong, has been selected as valedictorian of Princeton's Class of 2017.

The Princeton faculty accepted the nominations for the Faculty Committee on Examinations and Standing at its April 24 meeting. 

Chow will…

L'Avant-Scène had memorable visits to leading European drama conservatories and state theaters during L'Avant-Scène in Strasbourg, Berlin and London (October 2016) & L'Avant-Scène in Paris (January 2017).
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