Has a play ever been revived with more alarming frequency than Hedda Gabler (1890)? As Ibsen’s ghost was heard protesting in Kristiania, Norway, only last weekend: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.”
Hedda Gabler is apparently the only play that Henrik Ibsen ever wrote. While the derided revival Read More
If Ingmar Bergman’s production of Ghosts , which played all too briefly at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is to be his farewell to the theater-as he says it is-my urgent, selfish response is to beg him to change his mind. “Don’t leave us!” goes the cry of all those who know his magnificent contribution Read More
The new production of Hedda Gabler with Kate Burton achieves something that nobody has thought of doing in theater history. It has turned Henrik Ibsen into a comedian.
No doubt old Henrik was capable of a light moment or two as the Norwegian nights were drawing in in Christiana. But the view that his dark, Read More
Has there ever before been an exhibition devoted to the paintings of the Norwegian master Edvard Munch (1863-1944) in a New York gallery? Munch’s prints are well known, of course, and justly admired. Yet it is only isolated examples of his paintings that we get to see, even in our museums. I cannot recall ever Read More
