Anyone who thinks Lily Allen's simply an upstart pop star plonked onstage to pull in the punters and rake in the cash, well, ...

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

The irreverent pop star who has valiantly ventured into acting, to praise – but also sniffs of disapproval – Lily Allen’s ...

Anna Fleischle’s set is all 21st-century Soho House polish – a log burner flickering beside a record player – yet it hums with claustrophobia. A two-way chaise longue pins the characters in place, ...

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

The Zurich Film Festival has set the first crop of its gala titles for this year’s event, which runs from September 25 to ...

Rebecca Zlotowski's 'A Private Life' with Jodie Foster, and Haifaa Al Mansour's 'Unidentified' will also get the gala ...

Hedda’s own suicide, when it comes, is not an act of contrition but an act of will, the only gesture of freedom left to her. It is intended as a perverse transcendence, a form of negative creation.

With “Hedda Gabler,” the dramatic problem has always been the character of George. Early in the play, Ibsen offers a disclaimer when he puts the words in Hedda’s mouth: “You’re probably ...

Hedda Gabler "My frivolity had consequences," says Hedda Gabler in Broadway's new production of the Ibsen classic. She is explaining her predicament to the sinisterly Judge Brack, but the line has ...

Hedda's main challenges -- and Heaven knows she wants a challenge -- come from Judge Brack and Eilert Lovborg, a brilliant writer and a ruinous drunkard. Brack is an older gentleman who likes to ...