Topic: Henrik Ibsen

Scena Theatre’s Hedda Gabler, Reviewed

Kerry Waters and Lee Ordeman. . Hedda Gabler would never be caught dead wearing a hair scrunchie. Even if Henrik Ibsen had written his seminal...
Last weekend I caught the final performance of the Shaw Festival's When the Rain Stops Falling, directed by Peter Hinton, and enjoyed it even more...

Brains and beauty on show at naked readings

Sit back and enjoy readings of Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde or Henrik Ibsen, sip a glass of wine -- oh, and gaze upon the readers themselves: they're naked.That combination of delights is on offer once a month in New York thanks to ...
Foreskins: Lop them off or leave them intact?. . That question was the focus of much discussion this past week, prompted by a debate on this issue...
I'm always cold.". . So declares Gunhild, the estranged wife of a scandalized banker in "John Gabriel Borkman," now in a starry and fitfully...

. Crix pix: Adam Feldman's three to see.

The I had problems with this ambitious musical, which makes ironic use of minstrel-show traditions to examine the legal railroading of nine African-American youths in the 1930s, when I reviewed the Off Broadway production at the Vineyard Theatre last year. Will you ...

Peer Gynt

Aspects of the topic Peer Gynt are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References discussed in biography (in Werner Egk (German composer)) . In 1938, while in Berlin, he conducted his highly successful opera, Peer Gynt (after Henrik Ibsen), one of ...
Poor Grimstad ? if ever there was a town that didn?t deserve its name, this is the one. The town?s chief claim to fame is its association with the writer Henrik Ibsen who spent several years in Grimstad apprenticed to a ...

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen was a major Norwegian playwright, often referred to as the father of modern realistic drama.

Wild Duck

Norwegian playwright The Wild Duck the consequences of searching for the truth on the lives of two families, the Werles and the Ekdals.Even though it is not performed as often as some of his other plays, this is considered by many ...