Entertainment & Arts
Rolf Fjelde, 76, a teacher and writer who translated Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s works into English, died Tuesday at his home in White Plains, N.Y.
Sept. 14, 2002
Bart DeLorenzo directs a revival of ‘Ghosts,’ Henrik Ibsen’s 1881 masterpiece about family secrets that refuse to stay buried.
Sept. 13, 2022
Travel & Experiences
Michael Meyer, 70, prolific translator and biographer of Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg.
Aug. 10, 2000
Golden West College has found an unusual way of teaching students about famed playwright Henrik Ibsen: a special videotape of an original play by literature instructor Joanne Kashdan entitled “A Yuppie Doll House--1986.”
Dec. 25, 1987
Movies
The Jonathan Demme film “A Master Builder” will likely appeal more to theater people than to film people, it being Henrik Ibsen and all, as adapted by and starring Wallace Shawn.
Aug. 14, 2014
Annette Bening gives vivid portrayal of Henrik Ibsen’s complex antiheroine in closely reined-in performance of classic drama at Geffen Playhouse.
March 26, 1999
“Ibsen Women” emblazoned on a theater marquee on the Sunset Strip may not stop traffic.
Nov. 13, 1991
Over the years, most of Henrik Ibsen’s plays have been approached with labels already in mind: “A Doll’s House” champions women’s emancipation; “An Enemy of the People” is a denunciation of civic and journalistic corruption; “Ghosts” is the one about venereal disease.
Oct. 3, 1988
Henrik Ibsen’s dramas were so far ahead of their time that it took decades to appreciate them fully.
May 9, 1997
Henrik Ibsen: Ahead of his time. Father of modern drama.
Oct. 20, 2017