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Angels in America review – Tony Kushner’s five-hour fever dream predicts and reflects the US at 250

People, ideas and scenes wash over each other in Ivo van Hove’s masterly staging at the Edinburgh international festival

The Guardian - UK · Aug 16

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 · Mar 26

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 · Jan 16

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 · Jan 19, 2025

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 · May 11, 2024

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 · Apr 4, 2024

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 · Mar 31, 2024

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 · Mar 27, 2024

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 · Mar 27, 2024

‘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 · Feb 21, 2024