‘Hedda’ Review: Tessa Thompson Sinks Her Talons Into a Rich Stage Role Boldly Reinvented for the Big Screen

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 will be used, and eventually the gun as well, in writer-director Nia DaCosta’s sharpened-claws adaptation of the classic Henrik Ibsen play, which stars Tessa Thompson as a singularly destructive social […]