Wait, Isn't That Backwards? Ivo Van Hove's Line In Screen-To-Stage Adaptations
The director of Amsterdam's top theater company - known in New York for his daring stagings of A Streetcar Named Desire, Hedda Gabler and The Misanthrope - is making a specialty of producing great screenplays as live theater. Sure, we've seen it for years on Broadway with musicals (The Producers, Hairspray, The Lion King, Xanadu and so on and on and on), but van Hove stages such art-film classics as the Cassavetes scripts Faces and Opening Night, Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers, and Bergman's Cries and Whispers. New York Times 11/30/08

Posted November 30, 2008 09:38 PM