Ivo van Hove Archives - The Theatre Times

Unbound Curation – The Freedom Of Programming Without Frames

Posted by Ivanka Apostolova Baskar | 5th Sep 2025 | Belgium, Interview, Management

An Interview with Mr. Guy Coolen, art director, producer, manager, Antwerp, Belgium/Rotterdam,...

Tartuffe or the Hypocrite: Tartare of Tartuffe

Posted by Emiliia Dementsova | 25th Oct 2023 | Directing, Festivals, Hungary, Review, Theatre Olympics 2023

One of the most popular dishes in French cuisine is tartare. Diced beef with egg yolk and lots of...

“Who Killed My Father,” Young Vic

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 16th Sep 2022 | Adaptation, Design, London, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom

‘If this were a text for the theatre, here is how it would begin’ – these are the opening words of...

Ivo Van Hove’s Water-turgy: “Ingolstadt” at the Salzburg Festival

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 8th Aug 2022 | Adaptation, Austria, Dramaturgy, Festivals, Review

Just over a hundred years since its founding (by impresario and theatre director Max Reinhardt),...

Ivo van Hove’s “Age of Rage” at Barbican

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 19th May 2022 | Adaptation, Netherlands, Review, United Kingdom

Ivo van Hove’s production of Age of Rage is sourced from six plays by Euripides and one by...

“The Human Voice” at Harold Pinter Theatre

Posted by Aleks Sierz | 2nd Apr 2022 | Adaptation, Directing, London, Review, United Kingdom

Is there really such a thing as an unmissable show? Depends on your taste of course, but for sheer...

Theatre in the Time of Protest: “Glass Menagerie” at the Théâtre de l’Odéon

Posted by Lara Cox | 18th Jun 2021 | France, Review, Theatre and Art, Theatre and Politics

History, as they say, has a habit of repeating itself. When French theatre-makers seized hold of...

Movie or Musical? “West Side Story” at The Broadway Theatre

Posted by Andrew Agress | 12th Feb 2020 | New York, Review, Theatre and Film, United States of America

It seems that the classic Broadway musical West Side Story may be getting not one but two film...

“The Damned”: La Comédie Française On the Barbican Stage.

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 29th Jun 2019 | Adaptation, France, Review, United Kingdom

Ivo Van Hove directed the theatrical adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s 1969 Nazi-era film The...

Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Lee Hall And Ivo van Hove’s “Network”

Posted by Lucas Kernan | 27th Apr 2019 | Belgium, New York, Review, United States of America

“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...

“All About Eve” at Noel Coward Theatre

Posted by Duška Radosavljević | 21st Feb 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom

Some seventy-odd years ago, New Yorker Mary Orr wrote a short story for the Cosmopolitan magazine...

“Medea” By Simon Stone, The New Stage Sensation

Posted by Antonio Hernández | 14th Feb 2019 | Adaptation, Review, Spain

Simon Stone is a stage director who began working in Australia and is currently working in Europe. His successful production of Yerma, by Federico García Lorca, was selected by The New York Times theatre critics as one of the best plays in New York in 2018. Medea, a Simon Stone collaboration with the prestigious Ivo Van […]