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 ...

Peer Gynt is a poster boy for the self-centered. He's an immature, insecure, loudmouth braggart who lies to his mother and abuses women. When he sails off into the world to prove himself worthy, he ...

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 ...

"Peer Gynt is arrogant, manipulative, and dishonest, yet we can't take our eyes off him. This timeless fantasy captures the misadventures of its charismatic central character on a journey to find his ...

(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 ...

I consider Ben Stevenson to be an endangered species, a classical ballet choreographer. Creating a full-evening length ballet is no easy task, and Stevenson deserves credit for his latest creation, an ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...