English Live Theatre on the Cote d’Azur – 2025/2026 Season
English language live theater is naturally a rare bird on the Cote d’Azur, especially this 2025/2026 season, where the only English productions are in Monaco:
The best one of the season is at the magnificent Opera de Monte-Carlo, where you can lose yourself in a big-budget production of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS from December 14-31, 2025. Tickets are expensive, but what an experience!
The Grimaldi Forum in Monaco usually features a couple of splashy big-budget English-language musicals per year, and for the 2025/26 season it starts with The New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory December 12-14, 2025.
And of course you will be able to follow anything by the esteemed dance company Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and they usually do two productions a month.
The Anthea theater in Antibes is a venue surrounded by towns with healthy British populations, so often showcase an English language production… but not this season, unfortuately. But they have lots of pretty original and unusual dance and choreography, which speaks to everybody.
Same story for the Palais des Festivals in Cannes: a robust roster of cultural events, occasionally in English, but alas, not this 25/26 season. But again, all the dance (lots!) and music-oriented shows are accessible no matter your language.
Live Theater in Nice
For live theater of a different sort, the new Bobar Comedy Club in Old Nice has weekly stand-up comedy shows in English every Sunday at 5:15pm called ‘Spill the Tea’. 27 rue Benoit Bunico, tram stop Cathedrale.
The Nice Opera sometimes slips in an English-speaking production… but not for this season (2025/2026) unfortunately. On the other hand, they generally feature electronic subtitles in English for most productions, but confirm this before buying your ticket. Tram stop Opera.
The esteemed Theatre National de Nice (TNN) is in a period of flux: their flagship white-marble monolith has been torn down (long story), and instead they now have two new smaller theatres (…but more to come!) For the 2025/26 season it looks like nothing is in English again, but the choreography and dance performances of course are accessible to all, and would be especially worthwhile to see it in the magnificent new Salle des Franciscans Theatre in Old Nice, which is a rescued (another long story!) and repurposed Medieval chapel. Tram stop Cathedrale or Garibaldi.
Virtually Live from New York and London: You can experience the entire season of the New York Metropolitan Opera transmitted live at special showings at the Pathe Massena Cinema, and the entire season of the Royal London Opera House shown live at the Varieties Cinema.
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