Film and stage actor Katie Holmes will open The Old Globe’s 2026 season in February, starring as the title character in a new ...

The casting reunites Holmes with the Globe's artistic director, Barry Edelstein, who directed her in the Off-Broadway ...

The Old Globe Theatre announced that actress Katie Holmes will headline its 2026 in a bold new production of Henrik Ibsen’s ...

The Old Globe's Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, who directed Katie Holmes in the off-Broadway production of "The Wanderers ...

Henrik Ibsen has written 28 shows including Pillars of Society (Playwright), Ghosts (Playwright), John Gabriel Borkman (Playwright), When We Dead Awake (Playwright), Love's Comedy (Playwright ...

According to auction records, a needle maker named Eriksen bought the sofa. Haave traced the sofa's journey over the next 20 ...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the “father of modern drama”. Ibsen is held to be the ...

That's what they say, at least. The door slams two hours into A Doll's House, by the 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. The character slamming the door is Nora Helmer.

Henrik Ibsen wedded the daughter of a merchant named Plesner, in Skien, whither his mother had removed after her second marriage. Both Plesner and his wife were of German descent.

Ibsen is biennial in his poetic productivity, but, unlike his botanical prototypes, does not exhaust his fruitfulness in a single bearing. The Pillars of Society (Sanfundets Stötter) appeared in ...

Henrik Ibsen was one of the giants of the 19th-century stage. But his plays are not locked in their time, as two new revivals demonstrate. Paul Taylor reveals how the Norwegian's dramas illuminate ...