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FEBRUARY 12 – 25, 2025
When Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” débuted, in 1881, the public panicked. (It was a “farrago of syphilis and filth,” one shocked Norwegian critic wrote to another.) The plot, in which a woman suffers cruelly for her sexually profligate husband’s sins, takes place in a kind of house of horrors, where the hidden corruptions of one generation infect the next. The great Irish playwright Mark O’Rowe, whose verse drama “Terminus” featured a sex scene with a demon made up entirely of worms, applies his brutal, Joycean brio to a new English-language adaptation at Lincoln Center, directed by Jack O’Brien. The starry cast consists of Hamish Linklater, Billy Crudup, Lily Rabe, Ella Beatty, and Levon Hawke (pictured, left to right)—a group…