When asked to write music for Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt, Grieg thought he was facing an impossible challenge. But, as Terry ...

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 ...

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 ...

I’ve never seen a stage so packed with performing talent! Last night, at Peer Gynt, the stage at the Stifel was chock-a-block with the full St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and the SLSO Chorus—plus ten ...

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(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 ...

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, ...

Periodically, it's a good thing for an organization like the San Francisco Symphony to try something daring and different, something off the path of its usual offerings. If nothing else, this serves ...

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 ...

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 ...