This small theatre in Paris' Left Bank, located at 23 rue de la Huchette in the 5th arrondissement, is known for playing Eugène Ionesco's absurdist double-bill of The Lesson and The Bald Soprano in permanent repertory since 1957, as Spectacle Ionesco.

Despite the theatre's tiny size of only 85 seats,[1] a total of over one and a half million spectators have attended the show.

The theater was created in 1948 by Georges Vitaly and had its first production on April 26, 1948, Albertina by Valentino Bompiani.

The theater began showing Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice chauve) followed directly by The Lesson on 16 February 1957.

[7] In 1975, owner Marcel Pinard suffered a fatal heart attack in the theater's box office.