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Brendan Gleeson wins best actor as Critics’ Circle theatre awards toasts The Weir

Other winners include Inter Alia’s Rosamund Pike, Ivo van Hove for All My Sons and Hayley Atwell who beat her Much Ado co-star Tom Hiddleston to best Shakespearean performance

The Guardian - UK

Netflix’s killer new Agatha Christie mystery – what to watch and see this week

Well 2026 has certainly got off to a flying start with a raft of excellent films, plays and TV dramas to keep our minds off the lack of sunlight and cash during this dreary month. And that’s the marvellous thing about art and culture: it is often free or costs…

The Conversation

All My Sons: director Ivo Van Hove powers up Arthur Miller’s post-war play with a Greek tragedy staging

Belgian theatre director Ivo Van Hove is no stranger to American playwright Arthur Miller, directing acclaimed productions of A View From the Bridge at the Young Vic in 2014, with a transfer to London’s West End in 2015, and The Crucible on Broadway in 2016. Now he has another hit…

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Marianne Jean-Baptiste: ‘I’d work for Mike Leigh again in a heartbeat – in fact, I’ll pay him!’

The actor moved to LA 22 years ago. Now she’s back in the UK to star alongside Bryan Cranston in All My Sons. She talks about the frightening rehearsal schedule, how she’d work again with Mike Leigh in a heartbeat, and why she’s taking up boot-making

The Guardian - UK

Ivo van Hove’s All My Sons extends the UK’s special relationship with Arthur Miller

In his first major hit play, now receiving another starry revival, the celebrated dramatist’s analysis of the American psyche is steeped in European tradition

The Guardian - UK

Big Stars take over the West End again as Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste lead Arthur Miller classic

Breaking Bad star and Oscar winner jo9in powerhouse cast for revival of All My Sons - tickets set to sell-out fast

Evening Standard

Director Eline Arbo: ‘Theatre is very fake. You have grown up people pretending to die in front of you’

The Norwegian theatre director on bringing Annie Ernaux’s memoir The Years to the West End, standing on Ivo van Hove’s shoulders, and why live experiences still matter

The Guardian - UK

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Brexit didn’t bring down the curtain on Rufus Wainwright’s show. The play’s the thing

Word of mouth is vital if a costly West End production is going to succeed, and Opening Night had the wrong kind

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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

Sheridan Smith captivates, if the songs don’t quite, in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s new backstage musical

The Guardian - UK

Sheridan Smith feels like she's 'taking back control' of her life with 'gift of a role' in Opening Night

Opening Night star Sheridan Smith said playing an actress in the grip of a mental breakdown was “a gift” of a part that allowed her to take “back control” of her life.

Evening Standard

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

Smith plays a Broadway star in the midst of a mental crisis in Ivo van Hove and Rufus Wainwright’s glittering and extravagantly original musical adaptation of the Cassavetes film

The Guardian - UK

‘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

The Guardian - UK

Sheridan Smith reveals she has been diagnosed with ADHD

The West End star spoke of the pressure of perpetually ‘overanalysing’ the smallest details

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The Guardian - UK

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

Evening Standard

Ruth Wilson: her 24-hour stint on stage earned her our Editor's Award (and a very much deserved sit down)

The Second Woman went from curious experiment to a bona fide London theatre phenomenon as soon as she stepped on the stage

Evening Standard

Sheridan Smith to appear in new West End production of Opening Night at London's Gielgud Theatre

Rufus Wainwright to provide songs for musical adaption of John Cassavetes film

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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

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The Independent UK

Sister Helen Prejean's 'Dead Man Walking' arrives at Met in Jake Heggie's operatic version

Jake Heggie's version of “Dead Man Walking” reaches the Metropolitan Opera for the season’s opening night in a production by Tony and Olivier Award winner Ivo van Hove starring mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as Sister Helen Prejean

The Independent UK

Don Giovanni `unredeemable' in Ivo van Hove's US opera debut

Belgian director Ivo van Hove is making his U.S. opera debut with a dark take on “Don Giovanni” at the Metropolitan Opera

The Week

A Little Life review: a ‘grisly spectacle’ starring James Norton

It’s “rare for a play to be a phenomenon before it even opens”, but A Little Life has managed that, said Sarah Crompton on What’s On Stage. The 2015 novel by Hanya Yanagihara on which it is based – about a New York lawyer whose life has been destroyed by…

The Independent UK

A Little Life review: A naive and psychologically incurious narrative of abuse

Ivo Van Hove’s adaptation starring James Norton is cold, surgical and humourless

The Guardian - UK

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

Some called it torture porn, others a masterpiece. Ivo van Hove brings Hanya Yanagihara’s novel to the West End, complete with spurting blood, relentless sadism and not a little nudity

The Guardian - UK

On my radar: Ivo van Hove’s cultural highlights

The Olivier-winning theatre director on Paul Mescal’s star turn in Streetcar, an ideal Saturday in south London and the best composer he’d never heard of

The Guardian - AU

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

Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide festivalIvo van Hove’s adaptation of the popular and controversial novel, about one man’s traumatic past and his refusal to be helped, is an endurance test

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