Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT- Page 2
Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
#25Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 2/5/25 at 1:17pm
More tickets will become available as the run begins. Lincoln Centers tends to hold back lots of seats in the Newhouse for subscriber exchanges. These often get released day-of or close to performance times, often ending up on TKTS. And if a show gets poor reviews, tickets generally become pretty easy to come by.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
gibsons2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/19
#26Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 2/5/25 at 2:07pm
AC126748 said: "More tickets will become available as the run begins. Lincoln Centers tends to hold back lots of seats in the Newhouse for subscriber exchanges. These often get released day-of or close to performance times, often ending up on TKTS. And if a show gets poor reviews, tickets generally become pretty easy to come by."
I hope so. I missed first few days of general sale when there were $98 tickets. I don't think there's anything under $150 left and some dates are sold out on Telecharge.
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#27Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 3/10/25 at 11:53pm
NYT:
Green seems mixed on the translation, but positive on Rabe and Crudup.
‘Ghosts’ Review: The Sins of the Father, Visited on Everyone
Ibsen’s scathing drama about medical and moral contagion gets a high-sheen Off Broadway staging starring a riveting Lily Rabe.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/theater/ghosts-review-rabe-linklater-crudup-beatty.html
"That O’Rowe’s is a prosy “Ghosts,” avoiding even the word “ghosts” itself, might not have mattered on its own. But in favoring the play’s (iffy) logic over its (haunting) poetry, and denying Manders the vigorous invective of a petty tyrant, it creates an imbalance that Crudup can only finesse. Rabe’s Mrs. Alving is clearly the winner on points, even if Ibsen undermines her in the final scenes, suggesting that she, not her husband, brought disaster upon everyone, by prioritizing her will over the world’s.
Distasteful though that is, it’s good drama, and “Ghosts” remains a provocative, engrossing work, to which O’Brien’s production does justice."
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#28Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 3/10/25 at 11:56pm
Holden in Vulture is mixed
A Ghosts That Doesn’t Go Mad
https://www.vulture.com/article/theater-review-ibsen-ghosts-obrien-lincoln-center-hawke-linklater-crudup.html
"How can Ghosts continue, if not to send us into spasms of offense, then still to electrify and unnerve, to shock not our delicate constitutions but our consciences, which, after all, was its intention all along?
Jack O’Brien’s new attempt on Ibsen’s reviled and—eventually—revered truth-bomb doesn’t so much answer that question as sub it out for another less interesting one: What happens if you put a bunch of famous people in the show and, for the majority of its 110 minutes, play it pretty straight? In a streamlined, surprisingly low-key new translation by the Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe, this Ghosts doesn’t exactly founder, but it doesn’t haunt or horrify either. "
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#29Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 3/10/25 at 11:58pm
WSJ
‘Ghosts’ Review: Lincoln Center’s Streamlined, Spectral Ibsen
Jack O’Brien directs a new, energetically trimmed version of the classic play in a production starring Billy Crudup, Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater and Levon Hawke.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ghosts-review-lincoln-centers-streamlined-spectral-ibsen-26ac0678
NY Stage Review
GHOSTS: IBSEN’S BEAUTIFULLY ACTED CLASSIC ODDLY GIVES UP THE GHOST
By David Finkle
★★★☆☆ Jack O'Brien directs Mark O'Rowe's adaptation, with Lily Rabe and Levon Hawke acting like spectral blazes
https://nystagereview.com/2025/03/10/ghosts-ibsens-beautifully-acted-classic-oddly-gives-up-the-ghost/
GHOSTS: IBSEN’S WOUNDED SPIRITS STILL LIVE WITHIN US
By Roma Torre
★★★★☆ Lily Rabe leads an intensely gripping production of the 19th century classic that continues to resonate today.
https://nystagereview.com/2025/03/10/ghosts-ibsens-wounded-spirits-still-live-within-us/
#30Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 3/11/25 at 12:25am
Saw it Saturday night, and Lily Rabe's performance ranks among the finest I've ever seen.
verywellthensigh
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/22
#31Ibsen's GHOSTS at LCT
Posted: 3/11/25 at 10:58am
Oh, good Lord, only Jesse Green could get all "That's misogyny!!!" on Ghosts.
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