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Henrik Ibsen

June 2024

  • Mark Uhre as Nick Bottom with members of the company in Something Rotten!. Stratford Festival 2024. Photo: Ann Baggley.

    O, Canada! The Bard is ribbed and revered at Ontario’s Stratford festival

    The side-splitting Something Rotten! fondly mocks Shakespeare and musicals at the annual arts jamboree celebrated for both. It is a witty accompaniment to fresh takes on Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night and Cymbeline

May 2024

  • Lily Allen at the opening night of The Pillowman in 2023.

    Lily Allen to star in new version of Hedda Gabler ‘absolutely for now’

    Matthew Dunster, who directed Allen in her West End debut 2:22: A Ghost Story, will write and direct the show for Bath’s Ustinov Studio next year

March 2024

  • Man wearing brown coat sits at table on a stage holding paper with audience in the background

    An Enemy of the People review – Jeremy Strong impresses in timely Ibsen drama

  • Middle aged white man with trip black hair gray on sides, wearing black turtleneck, looks serious in front of press background.

    ‘No theatre on a dead planet’: climate activists disrupt Jeremy Strong Broadway show

February 2024

  • Matt Smith (Dr Stockmann) and Nigel Lindsay (Morten Kiil) in An Enemy of the People.

    The week in theatre: An Enemy of the People; King Lear; Double Feature – review

  • Matt Smith as Thomas Stockmann in An Enemy of the People.

    An Enemy of the People review – Matt Smith’s groovy firebrand swings from rebel to conspiracist

November 2023

  • Cian Eagle-Service as Bruno, with Bertie Caplan (Luke) far left, and company in The Witches.

    The week in theatre: The Witches; Ghosts; Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) – review

    The youngsters steal the show in the National’s terrifying gothic Disney Roald Dahl; a fine cast are stranded in Ibsen by candlelight; and a bittersweet fairytale in New York hits the spot
  • Magnificent in her maternal desperation … Hattie Morahan in Ghosts at Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London.

    Ghosts review – Ibsen’s intense tragedy by candlelight

    Joe Hill-Gibbins directs his own version of the psychodrama, creating a potent atmosphere with designer Rosanna Vize
  • Lesley Manville (Helene Alving) and Jack Lowden (Oswald Alving) in Ghosts at Almeida Theatre in 2013.

    Ibsen’s Ghosts: a resounding flop that still returns to haunt us

    Despite being panned as ‘a dirty act done publicly’ on its London premiere, the tragedy is now regarded as a classic – here are three productions that radically shifted our perspective

October 2023

  • Lines become blurred … Antonia Thomas and Joshua James in Shooting Hedda Gabler at the Rose theatre.

    Shooting Hedda Gabler – Ibsen update is a brilliantly unnerving study of coercive control

    A demanding director drives his cast into discomforting areas in this clever play critiquing the patriarchal power structures of the movie business

June 2023

  • Samira Wiley in Blues for an Alabama Sky.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

    Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first time

May 2023

  • Jeremy Strong at the 2023 Met Gala

    Jeremy Strong to follow Succession with a return to Broadway

    The actor will head up an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s 1882 play An Enemy of the People once the hit HBO drama has ended

March 2023

  • Okieriete Onaodowan and Jessica Chastain in A Doll’s House

    A Doll’s House review – Jessica Chastain captivates in minimalist revival

  • Hedda Gabler. Reading Rep. 2023

    Hedda Gabler review – queer update of Ibsen’s intense story of desire

January 2023

  • Sheridan Smith in Legally Blonde, 2010

    Sheridan Smith on stage: from Hedda Gabler to Elle Woods – in pictures

    As she returns to the West End to star in Shirley Valentine at the Duke of York’s theatre, revisit some of the Olivier award-winner’s theatre roles

October 2022

  • Simon Russell Beale and Lia Williams in John Gabriel Borkman.

    The week in theatre: John Gabriel Borkman; Eureka Day – review

    Simon Russell Beale is doubly commanding as Ibsen’s charismatic banker in a problem-raising revival, while a new anti-vax satire needs more than a shot of Helen Hunt’s star power

September 2022

  • John Gabriel Borkman, Bridge Theatre, 2022. 14. Simon Russell Beale (John Gabriel Borkman), photo by Manuel Harlan

    John Gabriel Borkman review – Simon Russell Beale magnetic as the shamed alpha-male banker

    Turning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner’s production is held together by some powerhouse performances

June 2022

  • ‘Imposing but sometimes over-deliberate’: Noma Dumezweni in A Doll’s House, Part 2

    The week in theatre: A Doll’s House, Part 2; Jitney – review

  • Noma Dumezweni in A Doll’s House, Part 2 at the Donmar Warehouse.

    A Doll’s House, Part 2 review – Ibsen’s Nora returns for second round

May 2022

  • Mared Jarman and Oliver Ryan.

    A Hero of the People review – Ibsen watered down in Wales

    While there are some strong performances and the conceit is intriguing, this modern-day version of the classic fails to convince
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