The Fountainhead (play)

The Fountainhead
Cover of program for the 2014 Amsterdam production
Written by	Ivo van Hove
Based on	The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
Date premiered	15 June 2014 (2014-06-15)
Place premiered	Stadsschouwburg
Original language	Dutch

The Fountainhead is a play written in 2014 by Belgian theatre director Ivo van Hove. It is an adaptation of its 1943 novel by American author Ayn Rand. The story focuses on Howard Roark, an individualistic architect who designs modernist buildings and refuses to compromise with an architectural establishment unwilling to accept innovation. The production, running more than four hours, uses video projections to show close-ups of the actors and Roark's drawings, as well as backgrounds of the New York skyline.^[1][2]

Since its debut at the Holland Festival in June 2014, the play has received mostly positive reviews from European critics for productions in the Netherlands, France, Spain, and the United Kingdom. American critics gave mostly negative reviews to a production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in 2017.