Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, and Paapa Essiedu Will Lead ALL MY SONS Directed By Ivo Van Hove in the West End
Posted: 4/10/25 at 9:05am
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is the most exciting casting of the year.
Posted: 4/10/25 at 9:46am
Exciting!
This cast is good enough that even if I don’t love what Ivo brings to it it’ll still be worth seeing. (Or maybe I’ll love Ivo’s work. He’s 50/50 for me.)
Posted: 4/10/25 at 12:08pm
Actually asking this: have the bullying accusation against Van Hove been sufficiently addressed among the theatre world?
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
Posted: 4/10/25 at 1:41pm
Bryan Cranston has given such wonderful stage performances that this is definitely on my list.
Posted: 4/10/25 at 2:13pm
I am kind of surprised this casting is happening since it is part of the reason the original director left the last revival at Roundabout (I believe he wanted to do mixed race casting)
also there was just a big revival at the National Theater in 2019 will Bill Pullman and Sally Field
Posted: 4/10/25 at 4:03pm
I’m curious if Ivo will just present a standard staging of this or do something different.
Posted: 4/10/25 at 5:21pm
Count on wall to wall videos of planes dropping their payloads.
Posted: 4/10/25 at 6:41pm
Ivo's "View from the Bridge" was stunning and devastating (fairly traditional -- for him), and the actors all gave extraordinary performances, so I'm very excited for this.
Posted: 4/10/25 at 7:33pm
BoringBoredBoard40 said: "I am kind of surprised this casting is happening since it is part of the reason the original director left the last revival at Roundabout (I believe he wanted to do mixed race casting)"
Rebecca Miller looked pretty foolish for that in 2019. Perhaps she's evolved since then, as the rest of the world has.
Money also talks. Cranston's been a consistent draw on stage and his last collab with Ivo was pretty electrifying. If that means Ivo wants to do race-conscious casting, let him.
