Tessa Thompson’s Hedda movie is not based on a true story. The movie is based on the 1891 play Hedda Gabler, by Norwegian ...

Director Nia DaCosta has this knack for re-imagining. It started with the horror film “Candyman,” continued with superhero ...

Hedda Gabler, one of the theater’s great schemers, is transported to 1950s England in Nia DaCosta’s deliriously fun, ...

DaCosta has directed blockbusters like Candyman and The Marvels. Her latest is an adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's 1891 play, ...

In Nia DaCosta’s elegantly searing drama “Hedda,” Tessa Thompson makes a classic role entirely her own. As in Henrik Ibsen’s ...

Director Nia DaCosta takes considerable liberties with ‘Hedda Gabler’ in her adaptation, which stars Tessa Thompson as the ...

The director and star are perfectly attuned in this breathless and tantalizing update of Henrik Ibsen’s classic play ...

On the chain around Hedda Gabler’s neck hangs a key to her father’s gun case. One needn’t be a genius to deduce that the key ...

Though visually inventive, Nia DaCosta's interpretation seems more focused on its own novelty than on the emotional bones of ...

His trapped female heroines are devastatingly resonant 119 years since his death - it's an indictment of today's world ...

Nia DaCosta deftly adapts Hedda Gabler, focusing on the manipulative title character as she hosts a lavish party laden with ...

Union Arts Center kicks off its debut season with Ibsen’s play about a town in political and moral crisis. Sound familiar?