My Shows
News on your favorite shows, specials & more!
Jean Genet Headshot
Get Jean Genet Alerts

Jean Genet News

Birth Place: Paris, FRANCE

Get Jean Genet Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.
Review Roundup: Kip Williams' THE MAIDS Transfers Off-Broadway

St. Ann’s Warehouse’s 2025-26 season is culminating with The Donmar Warehouse’s production of The Maids, Jean Genet’s production about class struggle and blurred identity, in a new version written and directed by Kip Williams. Read the reviews!

Review: THE MOORS at The Theatre Centre

In Jen Silverman’s The Moors, the slightly deranged love child of the Brontës, Waiting For Godot, and Six, Emilie the governess (Blessing Adedijo) arrives at a manor amidst the titular plains to find that nothing is quite as she expected. Branwell, her supposed employer and warmhearted correspondent, is nowhere to be found, nor is the child she expects to teach.

BWW Q&A: Brendan Healy Talks A DOLL'S HOUSE at Canadian Stage

BroadwayWorld spoke with Brendan Healy about Canadian Stage's production of A Doll's House. Nora appears to be the perfect wife, but beneath the surface she harbours a secret that threatens to unravel her seemingly happy world. As the truth emerges, Nora gradually awakens to her own desires, and the play builds toward a radical act of self-liberation.  

Historian Amnon Kabatchnik's BLOODY BROADWAY Released

Amnon Kabatchnik has penned a new in his award-winning reference series. Kabatchnik's latest, Bloody Broadway: Plays of Menace, Murder, and Mystery, Volume I (BearManor Media) is now available.

Review: THE MAIDS, Donmar Warehouse

An exhilarating new satire on social media, class and how we live in unreal worlds bursts onto the Donmar stage in a frenzy of must-see vigour. Writer/director Kip Williams – who made his West End debut with Olivier and Tony award-winning The Picture of Dorian Gray, starring Succession's Sarah Snook – returns with his bang up-to-date adaptation of Jean Genet's play based on sisters Christine and Lea Papin, who murdered their employer and her daughter in 1933.

Alan Cumming To Host AARP's 'Movies for Grownups Awards' in 2026

Alan Cumming, Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor and host of The Traitors, will return in 2026 as host of the AARP Movies for Grownups Awards. The awards ceremony is set to take place Saturday, January 10, 2026 in Los Angeles.

What Is Absurdist Theatre? Inside the Movement that Changed Modern Drama

This fall, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is once again drawing audiences to Broadway, with its enigmatic blend of humor, hopelessness, and haunting stillness. It’s a timely reminder of how profoundly absurdist theatre reshaped the modern stage—inviting audiences to laugh at the meaningless, search for significance in repetition, and confront the unsettling question at the heart of human existence: Why are we here at all?

The History of WAITING FOR GODOT and Its Lasting Impact on Modern Theatre

Broadway audiences return to Beckett’s barren lane as Waiting for Godot arrives at the Hudson Theatre, starring Keanu Reeves (in his Broadway debut) as Estragon and longtime collaborator Alex Winter as Vladimir. Let's unpack the play’s history, its evolving meanings, and its stubbornly persistent legacy...

 1       …    

Get Jean Genet Email Alerts

Be the first to get news, photos, videos & more.

Videos


TICKET CENTRAL
Hot Show
Buy Tickets
Hot Show
Tickets From $157
Hot Show
Tickets From $143
Hot Show
Tickets From $73