Laura Cappelle

Tiago Rodrigues said the Avignon Festival, which he leads, would become “a festival of resistance,” juggling activism with the premiere of a new play.

The Spanish director and performer Angélica Liddell elicited a standing ovation at the Avignon Festival in spite of her attacks on critics.

Krystian Lupa’s latest work had its premiere in Paris after an earlier attempt collapsed. The delay would have been a good time to rethink the four-and-a-half-hour show.

Rébecca Chaillon’s “Carte Noire Named Desire” provoked harassment in France this summer, leading one actor to pull out of a new run in Paris.

The American choreographer has 46 engagements this year, including a monthslong retrospective of his work in Paris. But he is making plans for a “second act” away from the dance world.

In an ethically murky show at the Avignon Festival, the Brazilian performer Carolina Bianchi opens up about how she was drugged and abused, then knocks herself out with a spiked cocktail.

The Avignon Festival’s new director wants to spotlight drama in a different language each year. This year’s first installment had some conventional choices.

The French choreographer Bintou Dembélé brings her desire to create “a fair ecosystem” to the Avignon Festival, which she opened with “G.R.O.O.V.E.”

The opening productions of the Avignon and Aix-en-Provence Festivals brought tales of the down-and-out to well-heeled spectators. It got awkward.

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