Kip Williams reimagines the playwright’s macabre classic in a grimly funny, contemporary production at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

In his 1961 essay “How to Play ‘The Maids,’” Genet insisted that the flowers in Madame’s boudoir be real. A cut blossom is ...

In the hands of Kip Williams, Genet’s dark drama somehow becomes a play about how you look at your phone too much.

“What is still called American dynamism is an endless trembling.” That is Jean Genet’s prophetic declaration, written for a speech he delivered on May 1, 1970 at Yale University, before an audience of ...

In his rethinking of Jean Genet’s classic work about class and power, Kip Williams ponders “a world that gives you every ...

Something of Jean Genet’s original, subversive spirit has been resurrected in this highly charged revival of his 1947 classic The Maids, a co-production between Jermyn Street Theatre and Reading Rep.

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Jean Genet (1910-86) wrote in fragments, beatific subsets of his imagination where crime and beauty blur in a single artistic tableau. "Be a Sublime whore," he commands his muse, an imagined entity ...

This Is Real features Genet's obsessions: power, sex, and revolution. Genet was a thief, drifter, prostitute, who wrote from prison; his work affronted convention and challenged audiences to question ...

Jean Genet was born the illegitimate child of a prostitute who spent a majority of his youth wandering between the prison systems of Europe for theft, smuggling and male prostitution. As a writer, he ...