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Jean Genet, whose life and works made him one of the most controversial French writers of the 20th Century, died today of throat cancer.
April 15, 1986
Entertainment & Arts
Jean Genet’s “The Maids,” an expressionistic and thematically repetitive play that’s loosely based on a sensational 1930s French murder case, can be more penitential than gripping.
Oct. 5, 2016
Jean Genet, the French author who created a macabre world of thieves, whores and murderers from the depths of his own perverse experiences, died Tuesday.
April 16, 1986
Hanket’s one-person show about imprisoned French artist is original, honest and insightful.
June 30, 1999
Cate Blanchett is spectacular in Sydney Theatre Company’s patchy production of Jean Genet’s ‘The Maids’ in New York. Isabelle Huppert is also fierce, but seemingly at odds with the rest of the cast.
Aug. 11, 2014
Insouciant? Yes. Funny? Frequently. French? But of course.
Oct. 4, 1996
If Jean Genet’s “The Maids” can be played by male actors--and Genet recommends it--then why can’t his prison play “Deathwatch” be performed by women?
May 31, 1988
A few Sundays ago, I was sitting in the Mark Taper Forum, waiting in rapt anticipation for the start of the second one-act play of the evening, Jean Genet’s “The Maids.”
June 3, 1990
Some casting news is too intriguing to ignore.
Sept. 6, 2012
Gene Frankel, 85, who directed the landmark off-Broadway production of Jean Genet’s “The Blacks,” died Wednesday of congestive heart failure.
April 23, 2005