1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation
The festive season is fast approaching, and with it comes the usual cavalcade of openings keen to get in before the holidays proper: just think of the numerous prospects for tickets as prese…
Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"
Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror
Ivo van Hove returns to form with his blistering revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 play, here starring a pitch-perfect Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu as father and son
Grace Galloway and Damon Gould are amongst the terrific cast in the European premiere of this quirky, sweet Off Broadway hit, seen originally in Canada; Lizzie Gee directs and choreographs.
The openings are coming thick and fast throughout November, coupling adventurous new writing with high-profile, star-packed revivals from much-laureled directors. The Hunger Games finally re…
Christine Rice gives a tremendous performance as Sister Helen Prejean in the ENO premiere of Jake Heggie's scorching opera
Alan Hollinghurst novel is cunningly filleted, very finely acted
Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatr…
Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play makes a shimmeringly powerful London debut
I came late to the Old Vic's shimmering production of Mary Page Marlowe, Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play from 2018…
Nick Payne's new play is amongst his best
Change, we're often told, is the engine of drama: people end up somewhere markedly different from where they began. So the first thing to be said a…
Jennifer Westfeldt makes her London stage debut alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman in the UK bow of Richard Greenberg's 2013 Broadway hit, with sterling support from Alexander Marks, marking his pr…
Owen Horsley makes his Globe debut with a patchy version of Shakespeare's take-no-prisoner satire, here starring Kasper Hilton-Hille as Troilus, with Samantha Spiro as a female Pandarus
October is chock-a-block, as the Brits like to say, with theatrical activity. Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe reaches the Old Vic Theatre with Susan Sarandon heading the cast, and Rachel Zegl…
Tamzin Outhwaite impresses once again as Kath in Nadia Fall's sterling revival of Joe Orton's breakout play; hip-hop star Jordan Stephens plays Sloane.
A game John Hodgkinson has replaced Simon Russell Beale in this transfer from Stratford of the RSC version of Shakespeare's abiding, cruelly timely gorefest
Simon Stone refashions Ibsen in his own high-octane image
Like the lighting that crackles now and again to indicate an abrupt change of scene or mood, Simon Stone's version of The Lady from…
Irish writer-director Mark O'Rowe of Howie the Rookie fame brings his frantic and furious family drama to London with a standout performance from Peter Corboy
Broadway's acclaimed Cinderella, Louise, and Amalia reaches Soho for a welcome one-night stand
Laura Benanti has been enchanting Broadway audiences for several decades now, and London has t…
Great writing is the order of the day as London heads into an astoundingly busy theatrical autumn, with shows jockeying for position, and multiple openings sometimes landing on the same nigh…
Jos Vantyler's Feste is the standout in the director Robin Belfield's Shakespeare debut at this address; Pearce Quigley makes a notably deadpan Malvolio
August on the London stage finds Rosalie Craig playing Mrs Oscar Levant, Totoro's main man Joe Hisaishi at the Proms, Robert Sean Leonard in a world premiere and much more
Andrew Lloyd Webber's best musical gets a brave, biting makeover for the modern age
Would Jamie Lloyd's mind-bending revival of Evita win through twice in four weeks, I wondered to myself, …
Rebecca Frecknall shifts American gears to largely satisfying effect
Michael Shannon's long legs reach to the stars - or perhaps one should say the moon - in the Almeida's hypnotic revival …
Adaptation of 2010 film is busy, bustling - and bad
"It all starts with a snap," or so we're told early in the decidedly un-snappy Burlesque, which spends three hours borrowing shamelessly …
