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Film and stage actor Katie Holmes will open The Old Globe’s 2026 season in February, starring as the title character in a new ...
The casting reunites Holmes with the Globe's artistic director, Barry Edelstein, who directed her in the Off-Broadway ...
"Hedda Gabler" will play on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage at the Old Globe Theater from Feb. 7 through March 8, 2026.
Perestroika," to Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" to Henrik Ibsen’s haunting masterpiece, "Ghosts," The Sandra ...
Rebecca Zlotowski’s 'A Private Life' with Jodie Foster, and Haifaa Al Mansour's 'Unidentified' will also get the gala ...
According to auction records, a needle maker named Eriksen bought the sofa. Haave traced the sofa's journey over the next 20 ...
The Zurich Film Festival has set the first crop of its gala titles for this year’s event, which runs from September 25 to ...
Henrik Ibsen has written 28 shows including Pillars of Society (Playwright), Ghosts (Playwright), John Gabriel Borkman (Playwright), When We Dead Awake (Playwright), Love's Comedy (Playwright ...
That's what they say, at least. The door slams two hours into A Doll's House, by the 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The character slamming the door is Nora Helmer.
Henrik Ibsen as depicted by Edvard Munch in 1898. Photo: Alamy Stock Photo He’s seen as a, sometimes as the, father of modern drama.
A family, Dr. Johnson once wrote, is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions. This is a less than ringing endorsement of family life, of course; and the great Norwegian ...