Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” has been tamed. Gone are the trolls and dozens of actors, not to mention three acts and as many hours, ...

City: Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. Year: Until Oct. 4 You’d be forgiven for pronouncing Gnit like “knit.” But when the play’s titular doofus, an old-enough-to-know-better man-child living in the ...

Gnit is the celebrated American playwright Will Eno's acerbically witty adaptation of the Ibsen classic Peer Gynt. Eno has reimagined that sprawling, satirical, 19th-century quest tale as a ...

Qasim Khan as Peter in Gnit (Shaw Festival, 2025). Photo by Michael Cooper. Lovely Julia Course is solid and nuanced in the straight role of Peter’s great love, Solvay, and Ms. Course gets the ...

This past weekend, Stanford Theater Lab produced the existential and unorthodox “Gnit,” by Will Eno, in the courtyard between Branner and Toyon Hall. At times depressing and always absurd, this witty ...

NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — When a playwright chooses to write a new version of a classic work, they must first answer one crucial question: Why? Why rewrite this story?

Theater companies often run both mainstage and second-stage seasons. Splashy chestnuts typically claim the larger space, often old-school proscenium presentation, typically crowd-pleasers, more likely ...

Henrik Ibsen’s “Peer Gynt” has been tamed. Gone are the trolls and dozens of actors, not to mention three acts and as many hours, in Will Eno’s new adaptation, “Gnit,” which opened Sunday at the ...