The Latest Breaking News from Ivo van Hove

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

The Guardian - AU · Mar 5, 2023

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

Our roundup of drama to watch at home includes Ivo van Hove’s epic, boisterous family fun and a dance fable for Christmas

The Guardian - UK · Dec 1, 2022

A Little Life: James Norton set to star in West End adaption of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller

Ivo van Hove, whose shows include A View from the Bridge and Network, is set to direct

Evening Standard · Nov 24, 2022

The week in theatre: A Little Life; Medea; Muster Station: Leith; Detention Dialogues

The hurt is all too real in Ivo van Hove’s visceral staging of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller; Liz Lochhead’s Scots Medea burns bright; and audience members abandon sinking Britain in Grid Iron’s latest

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 21, 2022

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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2022

‘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

The Guardian - UK · Aug 1, 2022

Nicola Walker, star of Unforgotten and The Split, returns to the theatre

The actor only really hit her stride at 40, but has always kept her feet firmly on the ground

The Guardian - UK · Apr 17, 2022

Molière 2022 review – France’s greatest playwright comes home

In an innovative and risk-taking 400th anniversary season, Ivo van Hove and others explore the comic master’s endless variety

The Guardian - UK · Apr 10, 2022

The Human Voice review – Ruth Wilson fails to connect in Jean Cocteau’s tale of despair

Ivo van Hove’s production divests this drama of emotional power and momentum, keeping us at arm’s length

The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2022