Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell

The Théâtre du Gymnase Marie Bell is a Parisian theater with 800 seats at the address 38, boulevard Bonne -Nouvelle in the 10th arrondissement. The theater has two additional smaller rooms: the studio Marie Bell ( 90 seats) and the Petit Gymnase (160 seats). The theater is a listed building.

Opened on December 23, 1820 by Charles- Gaspard Delestre - Poirson, the theater was used by the students at the Paris Conservatory as a venue and led initially to only one-act play or reduced to an act pieces.

Poirson upgraded its license to two acts, then to three, and sign an exclusive contract with the famous playwright Eugène Scribe. Since 1823 the theater had gas lighting and since 1824 it could be called by the grace of Maria Carolina of Naples and Sicily ( 1798-1870 ), Théâtre de Madame.

In June 1830, the theater was closed, renovated and reopened dramatique after the July Revolution under the name Gymnase.

1844 took over Adolphe Lemoine board of the theater. In order to attract a larger audience, he devoted himself to the melodrama and melodrama. Among the listed authors Honoré de Balzac, Émile Augier, George Sand, Edmond About, Victorien Sardou, Octave Feuillet, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Alexandre Dumas and Alexandre Dumas were the Younger.

In 1926, the writer Henry Bernstein Director, where for his plays: Samson, La Rafaie, La Galerie des Glaces, Mélo, Le Bonheur and turn Le Messager.

Since 1939 the venue for Gymnase the works of Marcel Pagnol, Jean Cocteau, Sacha Guitry, Félicien Marceau and Jean Genet was. The tragic actress and later named after the stage, Marie Bell, took over the management in 1962; particularly their interpretation of Racine's Phèdre became famous there. She ran the theater until her death on 14 August 1985.

Her successor was Jacques Bertin.