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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director David Schweizer’s clever, entertaining, decidedlyunpoetic adaptation of “Peer Gynt” belongs as much to him and fiverichly talented actors as to its author, Henrik Ibsen. By turns wisecracking ...

Too often playmaking, like politics, settles for the art of the possible. Yet it’s the art of the impossible that got a lot of us jazzed about the theater in the first place, and it’s important to ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In the Fogg Lecture Room yesterday afternoon Dr. Schofield gave a critical analysis of Ibsen's dramatic poem, "Peer Gynt," with an explanation of the themes which Grieg used in his "Peer Gynt Suite." ...