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Henrik Ibsen

Theater Review: “Ghosts” — Specters on the March

In this always compelling production, director Carey Perloff decided to bring the uncanny on stage, almost as a sixth character, in the form of composer/musician David Coulter.

By: Blll Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen, Uma Thurman, Williamstown-Theatre-Festival

Theater Review: A Rousing “Enemy of the People” at Yale Rep

An invigorating staging of Henrik Ibsen’s still pertinent play about spinelessness up and down the political spectrum.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen, James Bundy, Paul Walsh, Yale Repertory Theatre

Theater Review: “A Doll’s House” — Middling Ibsen

This is a thoroughly pedestrian production — wobbly, uninspired, and often downright tedious.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Doll's House, Bryony Lavery, Henrik Ibsen, Huntington-Theatre-Company, Melia Bensussen

Theater Review: Ibsen’s “The Lady From the Sea” — Simplified for Modern Consumption

In this Shaw Festival production we have something all too 21st century: the deliberate dumbing down of a complex play.

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Culture Vulture, Henrik Ibsen, Meg Roe, Shaw-Festival, The Lady From the Sea

Theater Review: “Hedda Gabler” at the Gamm Theatre — Not Subtle, But Lively

Despite some awkward staging decisions and the script tampering, there is plenty of lively drive in this production of Hedda Gabler.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Marianna Bassham, Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, Tony-Estrella

Fuse Theater Review: A First-Rate and Relevant Version of “An Enemy of the People”

Ibsen’s and Miller’s scientist hero must contend with denial, disbelief, ignorance, fear of change, malice, opportunism, greed, the abuse of power, censorship, betrayal, and violence. Sound familiar?

By: Helen Epstein Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: An Enemy of the People, Arthur Miller, Barrington Stage Company, Culture Vulture, GE, Henrik Ibsen, Housatonic

Book Review: Getting Down and Dirty in the Dollhouse: Ibsen and the Kardashians

An underground academic critic explores the fascinating intersections between the Kardashian sisters’ novel “Dollhouse” and Ibsen’s play “A Doll House.” The more things change …

By: Arts Fuse Editor Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: A Doll's House, and Khloe Kardashian, DollHouse, Henrik Ibsen, Kardashian sisters, Kardashians, Kim, Kourtney

Theater Review: A Dreamy and Acrobatic Hedda Gabler

Henrik Ibsen’s rejection of the everyday drives this compelling take on “Hedda Gabler” – the production generates a theatrical arena that is simultaneously acrobatic and surreal.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Theater Tagged: Boston University, BU School of Theatre, Ellie Heyman, Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen

Theater Review: “DollHouse”: A Door Slams in Connecticut

Dramatist Theresa Rebeck’s updated version of Ibsen’s play strengthens one key aspect of A Doll’s House—its picture of savage incomprehension between man and woman, which drives Ibsen’s call for independence and self-respect in a society that rewards complacency, greed, and childish role-playing. DollHouse by Theresa Rebeck. Based on A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. Directed […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: A Doll's House, DollHouse, feminism, Henrik Ibsen, New Repertory Theatre, Theresa Rebeck, women's rights

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