Ivo van Hove News

On this day, we're celebrating the birthday of stage and television star, Michael C. Hall!

To mark the world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film All About Eve, Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today given a first glimpse of the production.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Happy Friday! Help get yourself through this final day of the week before your weekend, by catching up on the latest Broadway news!

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) will present 17 Border Crossings, created and performed by NYTW Usual Suspect Thaddeus Phillips (A Billion Nights on Earth), and directed by Tatiana Mallarino (Red Eye to Havre de Grace). This will be Thaddeus Phillips's third collaboration with NYTW, following ¡El Conquistador! in 2006 and Red Eye to Havre de Grace in 2014.

Get a look behind the scenes as the full cast of "Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical" record one of the original tracks from the show - "Advertising Ruins Everything." Watch the video below!

World renowned composer and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct the Colburn Orchestra at The Soraya on Thursday, January 31 at 8 p.m. The program features Strauss tone poems the playful Til Eulenspiegel and grand Also sprach Zarathustra as well as Mozart's Clarinet Concerto performed by Cristina Mateo S ez, a Colburn Conservatory student and Jacques Lancelot International Clarinet Competition prizewinner.

Enjoy 2 specially reserved tickets for Bryan Cranston's play Network and meet him backstage after the play.

 BroadwayHD, the premier streaming service for live theater, continues to expand content and is adding two breathtaking opera performances to the existing lineup of more than 270 titles. Brokeback Mountain is a modern opera adaptation of the short story written by Annie Proulx and directed by award-winning, international superstar director Ivo van Hove, who will be directing the eagerly-anticipated revival of West Side Story on Broadway in 2020.  The vivid patriotic opera Nabucco is a drama in four acts filled with energetic performance, intensely beautiful singing and impressive set design that collectively throttles the audience into the time period of the 1800's. 

With rehearsals for All About Eve underway, Monica Dolan shares her excitement for taking on a similar role of direct address (playing both Karen and a narrator). She also gives an insight into working with Ivo van Hove, and adapting the classic 1950's film for the stage.

Sonia Friedman Productions and Fox Stage Productions have today announced a live cinema broadcast for All About Eve. The world premiere of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage adaptation of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film and the play 'The Wisdom of Eve' by Mary Orr will be broadcast on 11th April 2019 by NT Live. NT Live screens to 2,500 venues across 65 countries including 700 cinemas in the UK.

As BroadwayWorld previously announced, this year, instead of running a 30-second ad during the big game, SKITTLES® is creating the first-ever commercial performed as a live Broadway musical. It has been revealed that Michael C. Hall will lead the 17-member cast.

Enjoy 2 specially reserved tickets for Bryan Cranston's play Network and meet him backstage after the play.

The much-anticipated Broadway revival of West Side Story is continuing its nationwide search for LatinX performers for the principal roles of Maria, Anita, and Bernardo, as well as contemporary dancers of all ethnicities, to join director Ivo van Hove and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for this reimagining of one of the most famous theatrical works of all time.

The National Theatre has announced its upcoming lineup for the first half of 2019.

With just under three weeks until previews commence at the Noel Coward Theatre, the cast is hard at work in rehearsals for the world premiere of All About Eve. Get a first glimpse of Ivo van Hove's highly anticipated stage production of the 1950 Twentieth Century Fox film below.  

This Thursday, 17 January, the Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre, the West End's newest and most intimate venue, opens with its first live performance. Extensively redesigned and refurbished as part of the ROH's Open Up project, London's latest state-of-the-art theatre will open with TRIOConcertDance, a mixed programme of contemporary choreography. Performed by Alessandra Ferri, Herman Cornejo and Bruce Levingston, TRIOConcertDance features a series of UK premieres, and showcases the Linbury Theatre as The Royal Ballet's new innovative and international stage for dance.

Director Ivo van Hove, in collaboration with Flemish opera company Muziektheater Transparant, brings his trademark physicality and stripped-down aesthetic to bear on Czech composer Leoš Janáček's affecting portrait of identity, infatuation, and ultimately, alienation.

Are audiences genuinely reluctant to see new plays from outside the UK? Are new European plays really so different to new British plays? In order to explore these questions, I've organised a mini-festival of reading of European plays at the Yard Theatre in London this week, including seven European plays and one British play.

The National Theatre and the American Associates of the National Theatre will host an exclusive fundraising gala to celebrate the National Theatre's acclaimed Broadway production of NETWORK on Friday, January 11, 2019. Funds raised from the Gala will support the work of the National Theatre in the U.S. and the U.K.

Theatre Forward and Chairman John Thomopoulos will lead a celebration to support American theatre at the annual Chairman's Awards Gala on Monday, April 8, 2019 at The Pierre (2 East 61st Street).