The longtime director of the Avignon theatre festival, Olivier Py, has been named the new artistic director of Paris’s historical Châtelet theatre, over the objections of Greens in the city council who would have liked to see a woman named.
The actor and director is tasked with providing a strong artistic identity for the historic theatre, which has been without an artistic director since British artistic director Ruth Mackenzie was fired in 2020 due to managerial and financial concerns.
