Stage: Ibsen on a New York Summer Weekend

Ghosts; Classic Play Reading Series at Merchant’s House “Secret Garden”; July 7-10 and 14, 17, 2011
The Wild Duck; Compassion Theater Company/Shetler Studios; July 13-24, 2011

Summer theatre in New York, as in many other theatre capitals, is distinctly less varied and ambitious than winter fare, and serious classic drama, except of course for Shakespeare, who is one of the mainstays of American summer theatre, is rarely seen. I was therefore pleasantly surprised to see revivals of two major Ibsen dramas being offered Off-Off Broadway in mid-July. The first was distinctly a summer offering, Ghosts presented in the “secret garden” of the Merchant’s House Museum in Greenwich Village.

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