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 ...

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, ...

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 ...