Focus is less on social background than on the muscular choreography of the workout and the violent poetry of the ring. In the HBO series “The Wire,” David Simon featured a storyline that vividly ...

Antonin Artaud, one of theater’s most loopy and influential theorists, believed that actors should aspire to “an affective athleticism”—that they should become champions of sentiment, superjocks of ...

Visceral. Energetic. Powerful. It’s hard to image a piece of drama getting any closer to the real-life world of boxing than Frantic Assembly and the National Theatre of Scotland’s production of Bryony ...

For the year’s other big play on the sport, Roy Williams’ Sucker Punch, the Royal Court Theatre was transformed into a boxing ring; here, for the first tour stop of Bryony Lavery’s Beautiful Burnout, ...

The director-choreographers Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett explore the brutal grace of boxing in this kinetic piece by Bryony Lavery (“Frozen”). Hoggett was the director of movement for “Black Watch, ...