When Lena Olin enters the theater stage for the first time in several years, it is in Strindberg's classic family drama "Fadren" – directed by her son FA Campbell. With family, you don't have to take any detours, it's straight pipes, says Lena Olin.
EntertainmentThe actor Per Mattsson has passed away, 77 years old, reports Dramaten to TT. "He leaves a great void behind him in Dramaten's modern history", says the theatre manager Mattias Andersson.
EntertainmentWhen director Farnaz Arbabi takes on Shakespeare's sexist love comedy, it is with her own blank verse about a "soft girl" influencer and her self-willed sister. But you absolutely recognize Shakespeare, she says.
EntertainmentThe Government is abolishing the criticized cost rent for five large cultural institutions. This is an important step towards a long-term sustainable model, says Fredrik Lindgren, CEO of the Royal Opera, to TT.
EntertainmentA truck was towing power-carrying high-voltage cables on Birger Jarlsgatan in central Stockholm on Wednesday evening. The area has been cordoned off and several restaurants as well as the Royal Dramatic Theatre were evacuated.
SwedenFrom an ancient garbage heap, Karl Dunér has dug up hundreds of texts – which now become an eight-hour long sound work at the Orion Theatre in Stockholm. It becomes a proximity to the city's murmur, one is in the middle of the ancient city.
EntertainmentThe director Richard Hobert is dead, the family reports to Ystads Allehanda. He made a big impact with his film series about the seven deadly sins, but also wrote scripts and several novels towards the end of his life.
EntertainmentImagine if you could call back in time – and your own childhood self answered. Alex Schulman's new novel is a play with the possibility. The entire book is an attempt to handle the obsession with childhood that I am plagued by, he says.
EntertainmentPink sculptures in massive glass, oils in large format – and a floor covered with motifs in blood red and black. The artist Marie-Louise Ekman is doubly current with a retrospective and an exhibition with newly created works. I like a high tempo, she says.
EntertainmentThe set designer Göran Wassberg, long-time employee at the National Theatre and Dramaten, has passed away 86 years old, according to his daughters to TT.
EntertainmentThe author Mats Wahl is dead, confirms his family to Dagens Nyheter. He is among other things known for the novel ”Vinterviken”, for which he was awarded the August Prize.
EntertainmentThe People's Theatre in Gothenburg is staging William S Burroughs and Tom Waits' musical work "The Black Rider". The director Mellika Melouani Melani promises to drag the audience into "darkness, desire and perdition".
EntertainmentA record number of international guests, 50 seminars on love and a stage with Nordic and Baltic drama – this is what this year's book fair in Gothenburg will be like. We will get a global perspective on our time, promises its new head Oskar Ekström.
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