Autumn Festival 2026: our selection of shows in Paris
AUTUMN FESTIVAL – PARIS AND ÎLE-DE-FRANCE
From October 30 to December 12, 2026
Theater, dance, music, and performance: fifteen events of the 2026 Festival d’Automne in Paris and the Île-de-France region, from Romeo Castellucci’s Faust without words to the fifty pianos of La Villette.
Fifty pianos arranged in a circle, with the audience seated in the middle. Songs rising on the stage of Chaillot. An elephant-headed god unleashed in Nazi Germany. Every year, the Festival d’Automne takes theater and dance to unexpected places: a chapel, a gymnasium, a nave, a private mansion become stages. There, you’ll encounter the biggest names in the world and creations you won’t see anywhere else. Proof, show after show, that the stage has not finished surprising us.
For its 55th edition, the festival will take over nearly sixty venues in Paris and the Île-de-France region, from September to December 2026. Our selection, listed by opening date, includes shows beginning between late October and late November. Tickets can be purchased from the venues or on the official Festival d’Automne box office; several dates are already sold out, and we indicate this for each one. Selection updated on October 6, 2026.
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Faust. Unspoken Fact, by Romeo Castellucci, at the Odéon
A Faust almost without a word: Romeo Castellucci empties the myth of its text to retain only the image, the sound, and the raw material, set to music by Scott Gibbons. The Italian master's latest creation, one of the festival's highlights.
ODÉON – THÉÂTRE DE L’EUROPE
From October 30 to November 27, 2026
Paris 6th arrondissement - Metro: Odéon
From €10 to €42 - Some dates sold out
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UR!, by Simon Steen-Andersen, at IRCAM
His career as a flautist threatened by dystonia of the hand, Michael Schmid finds refuge in Kurt Schwitters's Ursonate, which he Performed over a hundred times. Simon Steen-Andersen turns it into a stage investigation blending archives, sounds, and images. French premiere.
IRCAM – CENTRE POMPIDOU
November 5 and 6, 2026
Paris 4th arrondissement - Metro: Rambuteau
€8 to €18 - Relaxed Performance on November 6
Darkness Picnic, by the DOM- collective, at the Maison des Métallos
A picnic, disappearances, an unsolved mystery: the Italian duo DOM- draws inspiration from Picnic at Hanging Rock, the film by Peter Weir. Three hours of a disturbing, nocturnal picnic, a sharp critique of the colonial bourgeoisie.
MAISON DES MÉTALLOS
November 5-8, 2026
Paris 11th arrondissement - Metro: Couronnes
€10-€25 - In Italian with surtitles - Ages 14+
Sold out, waiting list
The Death of the Kid, by Sébastien Kheroufi, at La Colline
His only inheritance is a phrase in Arabic traced on the ground by a father who died in an Emmaus shelter. Sébastien Kheroufi, a theatrical revelation of 2024, presents his first play, with Reda Kateb, Élodie Bouchez, Oulaya Amamra and Casey. Three hours for lives relegated to the margins.
LA COLLINE – THÉÂTRE NATIONAL
From November 6 to December 12, 2026
Paris 20th - Metro Gambetta
From €8
Symphony of Rats, by the Wooster Group, at La Commune
A leading figure of the New York avant-garde, The Wooster Group pushes collage and technology to their limits. Elizabeth LeCompte and Kate Valk take on a text by Richard Foreman in which a megalomaniacal president receives messages from the cosmos. A hallucinatory piece of theatre.
LA COMMUNE – CDN D’AUBERVILLIERS
From November 6 to 10, 2026
Aubervilliers (93) - Metro: Mairie d’Aubervilliers
€8 to €30 - In English with surtitles
Sold out
Piano Man, by Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol, at Nanterre-Amandiers
A mute man appears on an English beach in 2005 and reveals himself to be a piano virtuoso. Marcus Lindeen and Marianne Ségol have drawn from this news item a documentary play in which four performers reenact, through earpieces, the testimonies of those who encountered him.
NANTERRE-AMANDIERS
From November 12 to 22, 2026
Nanterre (92) - RER A Nanterre-Préfecture
From €8 to €35
Variations on Tenderness, at the Atelier de Paris
Three performers make tenderness an anti-authoritarian watchword. Pol Pi, Nitsan Margaliot, and Antoine Mermet have built the piece on archives, interviews with queer activists, and workshops conducted during a residency. A performance that blends stage, classroom, and gathering. World premiere.
ATELIER DE PARIS – CDCN
November 13 and 14, 2026
Cartoucherie, Paris 12th arrondissement - Metro: Château de Vincennes, then shuttle
€8 to €20
Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, by Back to Back Theatre, at the Théâtre de la Cité internationale
The elephant-headed god travels through Nazi Germany to reclaim the swastika, a Hindu symbol that has been appropriated. In a parallel narrative, the actors question whether they have the right to tell this story. With its neurodivergent performers, the Australian company Back to Back Theatre explores perception and power.
THÉÂTRE DE LA CITÉ INTERNATIONALE
From November 17 to 21, 2026
Paris 14th - RER B Cité Universitaire
From €8 to €27 - In English with surtitles
Gustavia, by Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot, at the Ménagerie de Verre
Who is Gustavia, this woman who reveals and conceals herself with the same gesture, on the verge of both laughter and tears? Mathilde Monnier and La Ribot reprise their burlesque duo, created in 2008, exploring femininity and melodrama. A classic of ferocious hilarity.
GLASS MENAGERIE
November 19-21, 2026
Paris 11th arrondissement - Metro: Parmentier
€8-15
Sold Out
Temporary Title, 2026, by Xavier Le Roy, at the Palais de Tokyo
An exhibition room at the Palais de Tokyo disappears beneath a mosaic of carpets. Twelve performers, covered in multiple layers of clothing, blend into the background, becoming completely camouflaged, before re-emerging. Xavier Le Roy allows the audience to come and go as they please. World Premiere.
PALAIS DE TOKYO
From November 20 to 22, 2026, from 2 pm to 8 pm
Paris 16th - Metro Iéna
€8 to €13, including access to the exhibitions
Chroma I–XXIV, by Rebecca Saunders, at the Grand Palais
The Ensemble intercontemporain disperses throughout the galleries of the Grand Palais, and the public moves among musicians, music boxes, turntables, and a gramophone. Rebecca Saunders directs and spatializes a new version of her work, conceived specifically for this location. Three performances in the evening.
GRAND PALAIS
November 21, 2026, at 7 p.m., 8 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Paris 8th arrondissement - Metro: Champs-Élysées–Clemenceau
From €8 to €25 - 7 p.m. and 8 p.m. performances sold out
A Little for My Heart…, by Dalila Belaza, at Chaillot
Longtime performer of her sister Nacera Belaza's work, Dalila Belaza brings live voices onto her stage for the first time: dancers and singers unite in a single vibration, nourished by the stories and celebrations of their family circle. A rite of communion of rare intensity.
CHAILLOT – NATIONAL DANCE THEATRE
From November 25 to 28, 2026
Paris 16th - Metro: Trocadéro
From €8 to €25
Dance; HØPE, by the Lyon Opera Ballet, at La Villette
The Lyon Opera Ballet brings together two masters of repetitive movement. Lucinda Childs revives Dance, a cult piece from 1979 set to the music of Philip Glass. Alessandro Sciarroni, winner of the Golden Lion at Venice, creates HØPE based on the two-step, a partner dance practiced in cowboy culture. The rehearsal turns into a trance.
LA VILLETTE – GRANDE HALLE
From November 25 to 29, 2026
Paris 19th - Metro: Porte de Pantin
From €8 to €35
Sold out, tickets available on site before each performance
The Parable of Resentment, by Rébecca Chaillon, at the Théâtre Public de Montreuil
Once upon a time, in Seine-Saint-Denis, there was a community that resisted the end of a world. Rébecca Chaillon reinterprets Octavia E. Butler's work into a funny and political science-fiction fable, performed by seven actors. After its run in Avignon this summer, the show returns to Montreuil.
MONTREUIL PUBLIC THEATRE
From November 26 to December 12, 2026
Montreuil (93) - Metro: Mairie de Montreuil
€9 to €27 - Ages 15+
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11,000 Strings, by Georg Friedrich Haas, at La Villette
Fifty upright pianos arranged in a circle, twenty-five musicians from the Klangforum Wien leaning against their keyboards, the audience seated in the center. Each piano is tuned a fiftieth of a semitone higher than its neighbor: in Georg Friedrich Haas's work, the harmonics rub against each other and make the entire Grande Halle vibrate. French premiere.
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Paris 19th arrondissement - Metro: Porte de Pantin
From €8 to €40, general admission
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