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Legendary Belgian director Ivo von Hove had a torrid time of it last time he was in in town: last year’s oddball ‘musical’ Opening Night was a notorious flop (although I liked it).
Still, that clearly hasn’t deterred him or his producers Wessex Grove: Van Hove returns to the West End in 2025 in admittedly much safer territory as he tackles another play by Arthur Miller, the legendary US playwright who gave Van Hove his big UK break with his stunning 2014 Young Vic production of A View from the Bridge.
This time out he’ll be tackling Miller’s breakthrough early classic All My Sons, about Joe Keller, a self-made businessman in 1943 America whose former business partner has gone to jail for selling defective equipment to the US airforce. Joe escaped any blame. But was that justice?
It’s a classic play last seen here in a solid 2019 production at the Old Vic, with a cast headed up by Bill Pullman and Sally Field.
And it’s got an equally enviable ensemble in this 2025 incarnation: Bryan Cranston - who led Van Hove’s excellent Network - and Marianne Jean-Baptiste will star as Joe and Kate Keller, with Paapa Essiedu as their son Chris.
Van Hove is a prolific and mercurial director, and the fact his View from the Bridge was an all-timer doesn’t mean this will be. But it’s an astonishing play and an astonishing cast - Van Hove’s plans for it will decide the difference between ‘good’ and ‘seminal’, but this one’s not going to be closing early.
Tickets go on sale today at noon.
All My Sons is at Wyndham’s Theatre, Nov 14-Feb 7 2026.