‘A Doll’s House, Part 2’ presents emotional fireworks in a static setting by Toni Tresca

Denver Theatre Ensemble delivers a solid but uneven take on Lucas Hnath’s drama.

Fix+Foxy’s “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen: A Playful Study in Radical Intimacy by Duška Radosavljević

Imagine Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, staged as a sort of salon game, in a real couple’s home serving as a set for the classic drama of duty versus love. Fix+Foxy’s innovative production, …

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…

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…

Review: Lucas Hnath’s A Doll’s House, Part 2 Sputters When It Should Sparkle

“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…

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…

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…

A Doll’s House, Part 2

Elizabeth Reaser and Jason Butler Harner to Star in A Doll’s House, Part 2

‘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…

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.

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…

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…

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 …

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…

A Doll’s House by Steven Morris

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"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…

“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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

“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�…

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’…

‘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.’

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’…

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…

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…

"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…

Tom Holland to Star in Jamie Lloyd's Romeo & Juliet in London by Darryn King

Tom Holland will play Romeo in a West End production of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, directed by Tony nominee Jamie Lloyd (A Doll’s House). The show will begin performances at the D…

Tom Holland to Star in West End Revival of ‘Romeo & Juliet’ by Caitlin Huston

Tom Holland will star as Romeo in a new version of Romeo & Juliet in the West End this spring.  The play will be directed by Jamie Lloyd, the director of the retooled Sunset Boulevard, …

Complete Cast Set for Encores! Jelly’s Last Jam, Led by Nicholas Christopher by Darryn King

The complete cast is set for the Encores! production of Jelly’s Last Jam. Directed by Robert O’Hara, performances will run from February 21 through March 3 at New York City Center. Join…

In Seattle, A Doll’s House is a Family Affair, Literally

Rachel McAdams “Mary Jane” to Broadway by Sandi Durell

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 D…

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers by JK

40 Years of Broadway: Creative Influencers: The Designers I've been so fortunate to see some of the greatest stage designs of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Many of the master in…

Sydney Theatre Company’s “The Importance of Being Earnest”: Fresh, Funny and Completely Joyous by Huw Griffiths

It is easy to forget that when Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest was first written and performed in February 1895, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House was already 16 years old. Both pl…