Hedda Gabler is one of the greatest plays ever written - a daunting prospect for any director.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tessa Thompson stars in Nia DaCosta's bold adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's classic play "Hedda Gabler." Courtesy of Amazon MGM ...

Every actor knows Hedda Gabler. The protagonist in Henrik Ibsen’s 1891 play is considered one of the great dramatic roles in theater. Elusive and complex, Hedda is a newlywed who, already bored with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tessa Thompson as Hedda Gabler in "Hedda" (Credit: Amazon MGM) It wasn’t broke. Nia DaCosta fixed it anyway. “Hedda Gabler,” ...

Ever since I noticed Hedda was among upcoming LGBTQ+ movies coming out this year, I’ve been intrigued about what was in store, and now that it’s new on streaming, I can’t recommend it enough. Whether ...

Aside from Shakespeare's, few plays have had as much analysis lavished on them as "Hedda Gabler" and few characters have had more written about them than Hedda herself. Henrik Ibsen's updating of ...

In this conceptual comedy, receiving its world premiere at South Coast Rep, Hedda Gabler and other famed fictional figures live on in a type of purgatory, trapped in the confines of character imposed ...

DaCosta yanks Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" firmly into the 1950s with a crackling, bold take on the classic play that reveals how timeless repression really is. The time setting is hardly the only ...

There's a real atmosphere of danger evident in the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler," starring Mary-Louise Parker. Unfortunately, it stems less from the ...

“Hedda”—a name that means “strife”—was Henrik Ibsen’s working title for his 1890 masterpiece (now in revival at the American Airlines, in a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn). To the first name, ...

What would have happened to Blanche duBois if Stanley Kowalski had shut up and let her marry Mitch? If you squint real hard at the New York Theater Workshop's current production, director Ivo van Hove ...