The Théâtre de la Madeleine () is a theater in Paris built in the English style in 1924 on the site of a carousel. The first major success of the theatre came with the presentation of part one of '' The Merchants of Glory'' by

Marcel Pagnol Marcel Paul Pagnol (, also ; ; 28 February 1895 – 18 April 1974) was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Regarded as an auteur, in 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the . Pagnol is generally regarded as one of France's ...

. The Théâtre de la Madeleine was closely associated with the French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and prolific playwright

Sacha Guitry Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre (aesthetic), boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French ac ...

who composed 24 of his plays here between 1932 and 1940. Simone Valere and Jean Desailly were directors of the theater from 1980 until 2002. In 2003 the director's job was taken over by Frederick Frank (until 2012) and

Stéphane Lissner Stéphane Lissner (born 23 January 1953) is a French theatre director. He was the artistic director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy, from 2005 to 2014 and the director of the Paris Opera from 2014 to 2020. Life Born in the 12th arr ...

(until 2005). Since 2012,

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has been director.

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* * Program: https://www.lesarchivesduspectacle.net/?IDX_Organisme=256#organisme-programmation Theatres in Paris Buildings and structures in the 8th arrondissement of Paris Sacha Guitry {{France-theat-struct-stub