Sunday, June 8, 2025

Video: Jon Clark Talks Tony Win for Best Lighting Design of a Play

Earlier tonight at the 78th Annual Tony Awards, Jon Clark took home a Tony Award for 'Best Lighting Design of a Play' for his outstanding work on Stranger Things: The First Shadow. After lea…

SOURCE: BroadwayWorld at 09:06PM
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Stars, shockers, psychos and evangelists: Rupert Goold’s mighty end to his high-wire Almeida tenure by Arifa Akbar

A smattering of famous names, a big-ambition project, a gay classic and a musical thriller … the powerhouse artistic director’s final productions have all his hallmarks, showing how he m…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Thursday, May 22, 2025

“A Doll’s House, Part 2” now at Pasadena Playhouse by Pauline Adamek

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) is one of the foundational works of modern drama. The play was written and first staged during the Victorian era, which was a time where rigid gender…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:32PM
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Michael Patrick Thornton Joins Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter “Waiting For Godot’ On Broadway by Greg Evans

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Patrick Thornton, last on the New York stage opposite Jessica Chastain in 2023’s A Doll’s House, will return to Broadway in this fall’s much anticipated staging of W…

SOURCE: Deadline at 10:00AM
Friday, April 11, 2025

SHANGHAI DOLLS Kiln, NW6 by Libby Purves and Friends

TWO WOMEN, LONG YEARS ACROSS HALF A CONTINENT       1935: below projected headlines about Communists executed in Shanghai and the war between Japan and Red China comes an audition call fo…

SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 03:18AM
Friday, April 4, 2025
Thursday, April 3, 2025
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

‘Ghosts:’ A Haunting And Emotionally Devastating Ibsen Revival by Frank J. Avella

I haven’t been emotionally slayed at the theater in quite a while. And I can shamefully state that Ghosts is a Henrik Ibsen play I was not completely familiar with. In terms of the Norwegi…

SOURCE: The Contending at 10:00AM
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Hedgerow Theatre presents Stef Smith’s Nora: A Doll’s House by Isabel Soisson

Nora: A Doll’s House, now getting its American premiere at Hedgerow Theatre, takes the Ibsen classic and reimagines Nora’s life in 1920, 1973, and 2018. Isabel Soisson reviews.

SOURCE: Broad Street Review at 07:30PM
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Ghosts Review by Jonathan Mandell

As Helena Alving in “Ghosts,”, Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in “A Doll’s House” two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for th…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:31PM

Ghosts **1/2 by Patrick Christiano

By Samuel L. Leiter March 15, 2025. Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts, now in an uninspired production at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre, has not received anywher…

SOURCE: theaterlife at 11:37AM
Friday, February 7, 2025

Mrs. Loman *1/2 by Barry Gordin

By: David Sheward February 7, 2025. Sequels of classic plays have a mixed history. Some are total bombs such as the famous flop musical A Doll’s Life which follows Ibsen’s Nora after …

SOURCE: theaterlife at 05:45PM
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Sunset Blvd. by Joel Benjamin

Now, director Jamie Lloyd has taken the clunky—but entertaining—Andrew Lloyd Webber musical "Sunset Blvd." (1993) and stripped it of all realistic scenery—and a few songs—hoping to g…

SOURCE: www.theaterscene.net at 09:14PM
Tuesday, November 5, 2024

A Doll’s House by Steven Morris

The post A Doll’s House appeared first on Stage Raw - ARTS IN L.A. - SERVED FRESH.

SOURCE: stageraw.com at 04:06AM
Saturday, November 2, 2024

"Sunset Blvd." Glows in All the Wrong Ways by Jan Simpson

You're unlikely to find anyone who doesn't have a strong opinion about Sunset Blvd., the latest revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton’s musical adaptation of Bi…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 02:31PM
Monday, October 14, 2024

“Robbin, from the Hood” at The Road by Terry Morgan

Message plays are a pillar of western theater. Our entire theatrical ecosystem is unthinkable without works such as Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House or Larry…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 08:18PM
Sunday, September 29, 2024

A Doll’s House review – stark production lifts the lid on Ibsen’s box of secrets by Nick Ahad

Crucible, SheffieldWith few directorial flourishes and a compelling central performance, this bare-bones version of the domestic drama gives the story its full due Perhaps the best thing to …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PM
Friday, September 20, 2024

Crescent City Stage mounts Herzog’s impressive ‘A Doll’s House’ by Alan Smason

By ALAN SMASON, WYES-TV Theatre Critic (“Steppin’ Out“) Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was first mounted in the fall of 1879, so there is little debate that the work could use a bit…

SOURCE: Theatre Criticsm at 01:42PM
Friday, August 23, 2024

Oh, Mary! Director Sam Pinkleton on the Serious Work of Being Stupid on Broadway by Darryn King

Yes. We were all hoping that Oh, Mary! would transfer to the Booth. There would have been something delightfully perverse, so appropriately wrong about seeing Cole Escola’s filthy, riot…

SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:02AM
Thursday, August 1, 2024

Keanu Reeves to make Broadway debut opposite Bill & Ted co-star Alex Winter by Benjamin Lee

The actors will star in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot from award-winning British director Jamie Lloyd The Bill & Ted co-stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are set to head up a new…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:51PM
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Triple Crown of Acting: Who scored Emmy, Oscar and Tony nominations in the same year? [PHOTOS] by Matthew Stewart

In January 2018 – less than eight months after she won her first Tony Award for “A Doll’s House, Part 2” – Laurie Metcalf was given her first shot at an Oscar thanks to her work in…

SOURCE: Gold Derby at 02:00PM
Thursday, June 20, 2024

Licensing rights for Amy Herzog adaptation of ‘A Doll’s House’ now available in the U.K. and Ireland by Michael Abourizk

The Tony Award-nominated adaptation is available for licensing through Concord Theatricals.

SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 03:37PM
Monday, May 20, 2024

Robin/Red/Breast review – frights and folklore with a mesmerising Maxine Peake by Mark Fisher

Aviva Studios, ManchesterDaisy Johnson adapts a 1970 TV play into a poetic and disturbing exploration of childbirth’s physical and emotional impact John Bowen’s Robin Redbreast is one of…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM
Monday, April 29, 2024

“Nora” at Antaeus – reviewed by Terry Morgan

If the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, perhaps the road to freedom is paved with righteous anger? Henrik Ibsen may have thought so when he wrote his proto-feminist play, A Doll�…

SOURCE: Arts Beat LA at 02:18PM
Friday, April 26, 2024

Montage: Rachel McAdams Makes Broadway Debut in Amy Herzog's Mary Jane by TheaterMania

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in the Broadway premiere of MARY JANE, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, the recent Tony-nominated adaptation of A Doll’…

SOURCE: YouTube at 08:12AM
Monday, March 18, 2024

‘An Enemy of the People’ Review: Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli Set Off Sparks in Visceral Distillation of 1882 Ibsen Drama by David Rooney

Sam Gold directs the Broadway revival in a new adaptation by Amy Herzog, who penned last year’s scorching update of the Norwegian dramatist’s ‘A Doll’s House.’

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM
Friday, March 1, 2024

Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane by Manhattan Theatre Club

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in the Broadway premiere of MARY JANE, written by Pulitzer Prize finalist Amy Herzog (4000 Miles, the recent Tony-nominated adaptation of A Doll’…

SOURCE: YouTube at 12:18PM
Monday, February 26, 2024

Judith Light to Receive Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Lifetime Achievement Award (EXCLUSIVE) by Angelique Jackson

Tony and Emmy winner Judith Light will be honored with the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s lifetime achievement award in honor of her storied stage and screen career. Light made her Broadway…

SOURCE: Variety at 10:00AM
Thursday, February 22, 2024

The Scarlet Letter OFFICIAL TRAILER | Two River Theater by Two River Theater

THE SCARLET LETTER World Premiere, onstage thru Feb 25 / 2024. Get tickets 👉 https://tworivertheater.org/the-scarlet-letter ABOUT THE SCARLET LETTER A CLASSIC TALE OF COURAGE Hester Pryn…

SOURCE: YouTube at 06:39PM
Saturday, February 17, 2024

"I Love You So Much I Could Die" is Too Intimate for Its Own Good—Or Anyone's by Jan Simpson

Valentine’s Day was celebrated this past week and the new show I Love You So Much I Could Die, which opened at New York Theatre Workshop on Feb. 14, struck me as an ultimate gesture of lov…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 01:36PM