A commanding sequence in the second act of the Guthrie's emotionally sprawling production of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" has Mark Rylance alone onstage as the titular wanderer. A commanding sequence in the ...

If Peer Gynt is Everyman, his tale is more one of caution than of hope, of apprehension than optimism, of opportunities squandered rather than realized. His epic experiences are related in an ...

Peer Gynt is a poster boy for the self-centered. He's an immature, insecure, loudmouth braggart who lies to his mother and abuses women. When he sails off into the world to prove himself worthy, he ...

(L-R) Andrew Love as a Troll, Shunté Lofton as Peer Gynt, Alli Villines as a Troll, and Faith Fossett as a Trol Credit: Photo by Pin Lim/Forrest Photography Classical Theatre Company has answered a ...

I consider Ben Stevenson to be an endangered species, a classical ballet choreographer. Creating a full-evening length ballet is no easy task, and Stevenson deserves credit for his latest creation, an ...

Peer Gynt reinvented as a preening, booze-fuelled stadium rock god in existential free-fall? Yes, that's what Ibsen's fantasizing, compulsively deceptive loon of hero becomes, in his pot-bellied, ...

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra closes its two-year journey away from Powell Hall this weekend at Stifel Theatre with a fully staged production of Edvard Grieg’s Peer Gynt. The project reunites ...

There is no way in hell to stage "Peer Gynt" in a way that would make Ibsen's monumental epic drama accessible to anyone who didn't grow up on the fabulous legend of this Norwegian folk hero. But ...

Thought impossible to stage, the original Peer Gynt is Henrik Ibsen‘s 1867 5-act masterwork of poetic indulgence, combining trolls, demons, storms, even a pack of apes. Thought to be a deliberate ...