Théâtre Hébertot, on boulevard des Batignolles since 1838

The Théâtre Hébertot on boulevard des Batignolles opened in 1838 as the Théâtre des Batignolles. On 3 July the Ministry of the Interior authorised its construction between the Monceau and Clichy toll gates; the architect Adolphe Azémar built it, and the Seveste brothers, who controlled the suburban theatres, took over its management.

Renamed the Théâtre des Arts in 1907, it presented Loïe Fuller in La Tragédie de Salomé. Jacques Rouché ran it from 1910 to 1913, then Rodolphe Darzens from 1917 to 1935: Sacha Guitry, Edwige Feuillère, Charles Dullin and Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff performed there. In 1940 the playwright Jacques Hébertot gave it his name and ran it until his death in 1970.

In 1982 Jean-Laurent Cochet set up a repertory company there: twenty-one productions in the first season earned it the nickname of a second Comédie-Française. Danièle and Pierre Franck ran the house from 2003 to 2013 and opened a second stage. Francis Lombrail bought it in 2013; Alexis Michalik will take charge in January 2027.

Listed as a historic monument since 1974, the theatre has a 630-seat Italian-style auditorium and the Studio Hébertot. In the 17th arrondissement, it stages classics, adaptations of great novels and new work.