Lily Rabe Is Pitch Perfect as She Makes Her Long-Awaited Return to the New York Stage
In a new Lincoln Center Theater production of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘Ghosts,’ she is cast as Helena Alving, a widow who after making great sacrifices for her only child is confronted with a decision that no mother should ever have to face.
It has been 10 long years since Lily Rabe last graced the New York stage. In the early aughts, the daughter of actress Jill Clayburgh and playwright David Rabe gave a stream of luminous performances that culminated with a Public Theater production of “The Merchant of Venice” in which, as Portia, she more than held her own against Al Pacino’s Shylock.
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