Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Most people are familiar with Peer Gynt, the braggart who drinks, lies and ...

In this enchanting tale, a grown man finds himself in one predicament after another, navigating dangers involving axes, perilous journeys, and furious trolls. This is a world teeming with wonder and ...

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 ...

A new opera, based on the famous play "Peer Gynt" by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen, premiered at the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo on Saturday. The opera libretto was written by ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Who is Peer Gynt today? A rake, a liar, a charmer, a crook? On the stage of the Norwegian National Opera, he adds ...

Alexander Mørk-Eidem took the question as the starting point of his electrifying new Ibsen production at the National Theatre framed as a TV chat show where Peer, reaching 50, gets to deal with his ...

While many classical music listeners might be familiar with Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg’s two marvelous suites extracted from the Henrik Ibsen play “Peer Gynt,” this weekend, the Allentown ...

Peter Gynt is a new version of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt written by David Hare and starring James McArdle in the title role. Susannah Clapp reviews the National Theatre and Edinburgh International ...

I expected the worst: when one reads that a director has abused the actors at a public preview one assumes a disaster is in the offing. But, compared to such previous Olivier stinkers as The Villains' ...

Edvard Grieg always wanted to write a truly Norwegian opera; he never did, but the incidental music he wrote for Ibsen's Peer Gynt, which includes several aria-like songs and some choral numbers, is ...