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...Doll's House Just when you thought Ibsen's war-horse had breathed its last, director Anthony Page, translator Frank McGuinness and galvanizing star Janet McTeer brought it back to life in a brilliant Broadway production imported from London. Their triumph was to make us feel the wrenching human underpinnings of drama's most famous feminist battle...
...those since Kline landed in New York in 1970, a drama student at the Juilliard School under John Houseman. As a member of the drama department's first class, which also included William Hurt and Patti LuPone, he played the lead in classics of Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen. Good parts came easily after school too. One of the last roles he remembers not getting is the marine biologist in Jaws. "I remember I told Spielberg at my audition that I knew a marine biologist and he could really help," Kline recalls. "Spielberg said, 'You know, I think I'm more...
...Ibsen. The American Repatory Theater production of "The Wild Duck" was the yummy cake under the overrated icing to this year's strong season. Other fine performances included "Man and Superman," "Woyzeck" and "The King's Stag...
Janet McTeer, the latest Brit sensation to make her Broadway debut, has the advantage of bringing along a play really worthy of her talents. Ibsen's A Doll's House might seem an obvious war-horse for an actress looking to make her mark. But McTeer turns Nora's famous feminist self-affirmation into more than just a political tract. This is a revelatory performance, the kind that takes a familiar play, gives it a hard shake and makes us experience it anew...
From the angle taken by this particular adaptation, the acting is first-rate. One does not tend to think of Ibsen as funny; this production favors a style of self-revelation that continually provokes laughter--and not a few hisses. But the acting, like the characterization, is not reduced to pure satire. Each person reveals psychological depths and complexities that figure into the overall ambivalence of the play. Will LeBow as Hjalmer comes across as a theatrical poseur in his own house, painting himself alternately as a self-sacrificing hero, a man of genius, and the loving patriarch...