Music@Menlo co-founders and artistic directors David Finckel and Wu Han. Courtesy Alex Irvin. Music@Menlo artistic directors Wu Han and David Finckel begin planning the annual summer chamber music ...

Broadway and the West End may be the global capitals of musical theatre, but some of the best musicals have also come from outside the boundaries of New York City and London. France has produced ...

We are now far enough removed from the glittercore of early 2000s pop music that its bubble-gum aesthetic has become as potent a post-Y2K period signifier as low-rise jeans and blond highlights.

French singer Juliette Armanet toplines this year's Cannes Film Festival opener, about a celebrity chef who returns home to help out at her parents’ roadside restaurant. By Jordan Mintzer Movie ...

The most famous French musical has never been popular in Paris. A major new production hopes to change that, reworking it for a contemporary French audience. By Laura Cappelle Reporting from Paris ...

First glance, two lovers from rival families fall head over heels—an inevitable love even death cannot stop. Though everyone thinks they know this Shakespearean tragedy, few have truly seen it. These ...

Despite another mass loss of lives in France in the back of everyone’s minds, French music was enthusiastically celebrated Friday night during the third program of the Cactus Pear Music Festival. The ...

Set in the early 2000s, a torrid romance between a Britney Spears-like pop star and a lesbian punk rocker makes for a deliciously campy romp. Such derangement is immediately apparent. In its first ...