Ivo Van Hove’s The Crucible, which is his second gig directing an Arthur Miller classic play on Broadway (the first being A View from the Bridge), sets him firmly in the minimalist camp of letting the actors speak for themselves. At the Walter Kerr Theatre, a wooden stage faces the audience, first hosting a classroom in which school girls…
Directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind) and produced his longtime collaborator Brian Grazer, In the Heart of the Sea recounts the sinking of the American whaling ship Essex in 1820, which inspired Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick, published in 1851. Chris Hemsworth (Thor, The Avengers) stars as Owen Chase, a first…
