Théâtre de l'Atelier

The Théâtre de l’Atelier stands out for its curved, cream-colored facade topped by a simple pediment, nestled against a small, tree-shaded square. Built in eighteen twenty-two, it is one of the few surviving theaters from that era in Paris. It began as the Théâtre Montmartre, but it gained its reputation under the director Charles Dullin in the nineteen twenties. Dullin arrived with almost no money and turned the small stage into a laboratory for avant-garde acting techniques that rejected the overblown styles of the time.