The playing places of the Festival d'Avignon

The Festival d'Avignon owns very few rooms. Each July it borrows them: a papal courtyard, two cloisters, a municipal opera house, and the gymnasiums of the town's lycées, where the basketball lines are still painted under the seating. These are the stages the official festival is using in July 2026, and most of them were already on its map in 2015.

Places in this collection

  • Théâtre Benoît-XII — This theatre sits on rue des Teinturiers, a few doors from the Mahabharata festival bar at number 10. Its July 2026 festival programme is N…
  • Opéra Grand Avignon — Before it was renamed, this was the Théâtre municipal, which the festival first took over between 1967 and 1971. It has 700 seats and has b…
  • Gymnase du lycée Mistral — This is a second lycée sports hall, catalogued in the school's building register as Bâtiment 5, and converted into a festival stage for Jul…
  • Gymnase du lycée Aubanel — For the rest of the year this is a secondary school's sports hall. For the festival it becomes a theatre, and it is where Milo Rau's La Rep…
  • Cloître des Célestins — The festival took over this cloister in its expansion between 1967 and 1971, when the programme spread out from the Carmes into new sites a…
  • Cloître des Carmes — The Carmes cloister is one of the festival's oldest playing places. When the Célestins, the Théâtre municipal and the Pénitents blancs chap…
  • Cour d'honneur du palais des Papes — The festival's main stage is the open courtyard of the popes' palace, and the July 2026 bill there runs from Maldoror and Oiseau to a Benja…

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