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Ivo van Hove

May 2024

  • Sheridan Smith and Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright blames UK’s ‘narrow outlook’ after Brexit for Opening Night’s flop

    Exclusive: Audience had ‘vitriolic reaction’ to European tone of musical, forced to close early

April 2024

  • Eline Arbo, artistic director of Internationaal Theater Amsterdam (ITA) since last September

    From the Arctic Circle to the top of European theatre: director Eline Arbo on being ‘an outsider looking in’

    The Norwegian theatremaker talks about succeeding Ivo van Hove as artistic director of one of the influential Internationaal Theater Amsterdam and staging classic plays as rock concerts

March 2024

  • Sheridan Smith as Broadway star Myrtle in Opening Night.

    The week in theatre: Opening Night; MJ the Musical – review

  • EMBARGOED UNTIL 1AM WEDS MARCH 27 2024.. OPENING NIGHT. Sheridan Smith (Myrtle). Photo Jan Versweyveld (3)

    Opening Night review – Sheridan Smith’s boozy meltdown shakes up musical theatre

February 2024

  • ‘I need to prove I’m not that person’ … Smith as Myrtle Gordon in Opening Night.

    ‘It’s so close to the bone’: Sheridan Smith on her very public meltdown – and reliving it on stage

    Eight years after self-doubt, anxiety, alcohol and grief caused her to unravel, the Olivier-winner is now playing an actress trapped in a similar nightmare. She explains how she is taking back control of her ordeal

January 2024

  • Hans Kesting, centre, as Richard III in Kings of War at the Barbican, London, in 2016.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Kings of War, David Tennant’s Hamlet and more

    If you can’t get tickets to his Macbeth, Tennant’s acclaimed prince of Denmark is online, along with a spectacular take on three Shakespeare plays by Ivo van Hove

November 2023

  • ‘An intense marriage of film and stage’ … Sheridan Smith will star in Opening Night.

    Sheridan Smith to star in Rufus Wainwright musical Opening Night

    Ivo van Hove will direct the West End production based on John Cassavetes’ 1977 film about theatre

April 2023

  • James Norton, centre, with Elliot Cowan in A Little Life

    The week in theatre: A Little Life; Sea Creatures – review

  • Luke Thompson (Willem), James Norton (Jude). photo by Jan Versweyveld

    A Little Life review – James Norton’s sexually abused lawyer is spared no misery

March 2023

  • James Norton as Jude.

    A Little Life starring James Norton – in pictures

  • Ivo van Hove at the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam.

    On my radar
    On my radar: Ivo van Hove’s cultural highlights

  • BooksCover 11.03.2023

    ‘Torture porn or serious literature?’: the love-hate phenomenon of cult novel A Little Life

  • Marieke Heebink and Ramsey Nasr in A Little Life.

    A Little Life review – four hours of brutality and misery, but what for?

December 2022

  • From left … Jodie Comer in Prima Facie, Charlie Stemp in Crazy for You and Marie-Astrid Mence in Oklahoma!

    2022 in Culture
    The best theatre of 2022

    In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

November 2022

  • Age of Rage, directed by Ivo van Hove.

    The best theatre to stream this month
    The best theatre to stream this month: Age of Rage, A Scary Little Tempest and more

  • James Norton

    James Norton to star in West End version of bestselling novel A Little Life

September 2022

  • Hans Kesting in Who Killed My Father

    Who Killed My Father review – powerful study of class, cruelty and kin

    Hans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis

August 2022

  • Ramsey Nasr and Steven van Watermeulen in A Little Life.

    A Little Life review – Hanya Yanagihara drama is not for the faint-hearted

    Ivo van Hove directs a mesmerising four-hour adaptation of a divisive novel that unpicks privilege, abuse and psychological damage
  • Theatre director Ivo Van Hove

    Ivo van Hove: ‘UK’s theatres can teach its politicians a lesson about life after Brexit’

    As the Belgian director brings his new production of A Little Life to Edinburgh, he says the British stage has been brilliant at maintaining links with Europe
  • Steven Van Watermeulen, Ramsey Nasr, Marieke Heebink and Hans Kesting in A Little Life.

    ‘How many litres of blood do we need?’: Ivo van Hove’s ITA on 20 years of shocking theatregoers

    They’ve supercharged Shakespeare, staged impossible novels and stunned with scandalous cinema adaptations. Internationaal Theater Amsterdam reveal their radical secrets
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