Date
	Oct. – Nov. 2004
		Playing French (French Theatre Festival)
			Chicago theatre companies and guest performers will present some 20 plays by contemporary French authors such as Jean-Luc Lagarce, Valère Novarina, Victor Haim, Philippe Minyana, Michel Lengliney, Fabrice Melquiot, Nathalie Sarraute, Hélène Cixous , and Bernard Koltès. Various venues. Chicago, IL.
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	Oct. 1–17, 2004
		Plan B
			The performance company CIE 111 from Toulouse, France, directed by Phil Soltanoff, combines elements of geometry, physics and theater to create fresh perspectives through movement. "Technically audacious. These artists couple fantastical imaginations with high-level skills to produce category defying entertainment." — Time Out London. New Victory Theater, New York, NY.
	Oct. 14, 2004
		Charles Osinski: The Emperor's Last Battle Florence Gould Hall / Alliance Française 55 East 59th Street New York, NY
			Set on St. Helena during Napoléons final exile, much of the dialogue of Napoléon and his British jailer is taken from historical documents. Through the fictional character of a New York Herald reporter, who seeks an interview with the deposed Emperor, playwright and Napoléon scholar Charles R. Osinski illuminates the philosophic differences, which were at the root of the Napoleonic Wars. In English.
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	Oct. 28, 2004 – Jan. 2, 2005
		Belle Epoque Newhouse Theater Lincoln Center New York, NY
			Set around Montmartre's famed nightclub the Moulin Rouge in the 1890's, Belle Epoque (by Martha Clarke and Charles L. Mee) is a collage of hallucinogenic dance-music-text scenes reflecting the experiences of French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
	Nov. 3–13, 2004
		Ballet Preljocaj: Near Life Experience Los Angeles, CA Brooklyn, NY
			Ballet Preljocaj, one of France's leading modern dance companies, returns to the USA with the national premiere of Near Life Experience, a full-evening work exploring how an instant of abandon - a fainting spell, a trance, an orgasm — offers the opportunity for both intense bodily sensation and detachment.
	Nov. 11 – Dec. 12, 2004
		Yasmina Reza: Life x 3 Marin Theatre Company Mill Valley, CA
			Reza, wittily perceptive French author of "Art," considers three possibilities for the same scenario: what happens in one couple's home when the husband's boss and his wife arrive for dinner on the wrong night.
	Previews: November 7, 2004, Opens: December 9, 2004
		La Cage aux Folles Marquis Theatre New York, NY
			Based on the French film by Jean Poiret, the Tony award winning La Cage Aux Folles is a boisterous musical about Albin and Georges, two middle-aged gay French men who run a drag nightclub in St. Tropez. Their campy home is turned upside down when their son gets engaged to the daughter of a local conservative.
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