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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

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

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

James Norton elevates Ivo van Hove’s knotty adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s bestseller. And to the sea as Cordelia Lynn’s breezy new play sets a family adrift

The Guardian - UK

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‘It begins to feel like a freak show’: the disturbing truth of watching A Little Life as a gay man

The suffering is on an operatic scale in this adaptation of Hanya Yanagihara’s Booker-nominated novel — but to what end, asks Jason Okundaye

Evening Standard

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

James Norton’s nude scenes should have been respected – not violated by pervy photographers

Leaked photographs of the ‘Happy Valley’ star performing nude in ‘A Little Life’ has plunged the theatre world into crisis mode. It speaks to a grotesque violation of the unspoken contract between performer and audience member, writes Jessie Thompson

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Age of Rage review – ancient Greek tragedy explodes into our times

While the emotional complexities remain, Van Hove’s high-octane makeover featuring unrelenting pyrotechnics and riveting performances is a visual epic

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Straight Line Crazy; The Human Voice – review

Ralph Fiennes is firing on all cylinders in David Hare’s new play about a New York highway builder; and Ruth Wilson is beguiling in an unsubtle staging of Cocteau’s monologue

The Guardian - UK

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

The Human Voice review: Ruth Wilson shouldn’t have answered the phone to Ivo van Hove

Wilson plays a woman on the phone to her lover in this pretentious, dated production from the Euro-guru director

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