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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 152 theaters

Best theaters in Paris

The 10 most notable theaters in Paris, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.

  1. 1

    Théâtre des Sablons

    70 Avenue du Roule

    354 m from Les Sablons, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.119, percentile 100 of 152

  2. 2

    Théâtre Clavel

    3 Rue Clavel

    58 m from Pyrénées, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.118, percentile 99.34 of 152

  3. 3

    Théâtre Darius Milhaud

    80 All. Darius Milhaud

    305 m from Porte de Pantin, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.117, percentile 98.68 of 152

  4. 4

    Club des Poètes

    30 Rue de Bourgogne

    306 m from Varenne, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.116, percentile 98.01 of 152

  5. 5

    Théâtre Gérard Philipe Centre Dramatique National

    59 Boulevard Jules Guesde

    528 m from Gare de Saint-Denis, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.114, percentile 97.35 of 152

  6. 6

    Theatre de l'Atelier

    1 Pl. Charles Dullin

    194 m from Anvers, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.114, percentile 96.69 of 152

  7. 7

    Théâtre Montmartre Galabru

    4 Rue de l'Armée d'Orient

    404 m from Lamarck – Caulaincourt, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.114, percentile 96.03 of 152

  8. 8

    Théâtre de l'Île-Saint-Louis

    39 Quai d'Anjou

    88 m from Pont Marie, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.113, percentile 95.36 of 152

  9. 9

    A la Folie Théâtre

    6 Rue de la Folie-Méricourt

    70 m from Saint-Ambroise, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.112, percentile 94.7 of 152

  10. 10

    Casino de Paris

    16 Rue de Clichy

    277 m from Liège, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.112, percentile 94.04 of 152

How this list is made

Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:

attestation by independent providers
+0.35
record completeness (website, phone, address)
+0.25
Overture existence confidence
+0.20
Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
+0.40
brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
−0.15
same-name chain collision
−0.30

Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.

No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste

Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.

The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.

Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.

Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.

Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).