Gimme Some Truth, or Make ’Em Laugh?
From goofy musicals to meaty and instructive dramas, 4 shows stand in for the disparate ambitions and uses of theatre.
All Stories About Ibsen
Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio: Haunted by ‘Ghosts,’ Holding the Tears
Now onstage at Seattle Rep in Ibsen’s unsettling classic, she talks about the things you can and can’t convey onstage.
Offscript: Jokes and Epiphanies With Will Eno
The playwright of ‘Middletown’ and ‘Thom Pain’ talks about his new Ibsen adaptation, ‘Gnit,’ the often winding pursuit of the self, and the lessons of community.
Norwegian Wood
A hefty new Ibsen biography gives us a deeply difficult man in full.
How Arin Arbus Revived a 130-Year-Old Debate About Feminism
Putting Strindberg’s ‘The Father’ and Ibsen’s ‘A Doll’s House’ in rep heightened the similarities, and the contrasts, between the Scandinavian rivals.
Norway Plans Ibsen Theme Park
Attractions to include a house haunted by guilt, a slamming-door exhibit, and Little Eyolf’s Rat Race.
News
Reports on casting demographics, new-play programs, theatre as autism therapy, and more.
