1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
Burt Bacharach, existentialist? That's among the surprising thoughts prompted by the searchingly titled What's It All About?, the altogether delightful but also touching musical revue that t…
Two new plays, one starring the gifted Rory Kinnear, in London.
The National Theatre staging of War Horse has become a West End mainstay and continues at the New London Theatre after nabbing five Tony Awards on Broadway in 2011. The lead role of the equi…
The 25th-anniversary revival of Miss Saigon at the Prince Edward Theatre has had some cast changes as it enters its second year—among them the arrival of Broadway alum Chris Peluso to …
Premieres of "Luna Gala," "hang" and "Violence and Son" remind theatergoers of the thrill of the new.
Summertime and the livin’ is full of theater in London, a capital whose cultural calendar remains full whatever the season. Highlights this month include the UK premiere of an off…
Kate Fleetwood was a 2008 Tony nominee for her performance opposite Patrick Stewart in Macbeth and a 2012 Olivier nominee for the hit National Theatre production of London Road. But her curr…
A staging of "Aeschylus's "Oresteia" looks at violence, and a production of Shakespeare's "King John" looks at the monarch on the throne when the Magna Carta was produced in 1215.
The play that lost the 2011 Tony Award to War Horse is now receiving its British debut at the very address where War Horse premiered. But such theatrical coincidences won't register in most …
The West End has a, well, beautiful new star in Katie Brayben, the English actress who won an Olivier Award in April for her performance as Carole King in the London production of Beaut…
Imelda Staunton has already won Olivier Awards for her Baker’s Wife in the London debut of Into the Woods and as Mrs. Lovett opposite Michael Ball in the 2012 West End revival of Sween…
The Brits had a bravura night on Broadway as the 69th annual Tony awards last night, but if you dig into the detail, particularly when it comes to musicals, it looks unlikely the triumph wil…
They say there’s nothing like a dame—but what about two dames? That’s the situation currently with Peter Morgan’s London and Broadway hit The Audience, which has one …
Simon Russell Beale revisits the Occupy movement in "Temple," and the Royal Shakespeare Company revives Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman."
Beauty transforms itself into a beast but an inner grace shines forth regardless: such is the enduring power of Bernard Pomerance's stage play The Elephant Man, first seen in London almost 4…
While Broadway slows down after the Tony Awards in June, London rolls merrily along, both on and off the West End. This month’s highlights include a stage musical premiere adapted from…
“Men Should Weep” is playing at the National and “Tribes” is at the Royal Court, with a fleeting glimpse of Stephen Sondheim at the Queen’s Theatre.
Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall's production of The Rivals, the 18th-c…
Fine acting redeems "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, but "The Invisible Man'' at the Menier Chocolate Factory falls flat.
She's hosted breakfast television in the UK as well as a Broadway-related reality show (Grease: You're The One That I Want). But Denise Van Outen is also a dedicated theater performer, with …
The Royal Court and the National dominated the London Evening Standard theatre awards, and rightly so. Non-subsidised theatre needs to get its act together. Is there any good new commercial …
Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
Simon Russell Beale, an era-defining Hamlet, takes a star turn at the West End rendition of a piece of theatrical hokum by Ira Levin that, 32 years after its New York debut, still delivers.
From Shakespeare to Sondheim, the theater scene in London brought something for almost everyone.
Illinois native David Bedella may be the first performer actually from Chicago to play the invitingly sleazy lawyer Billy Flynn in the London production of Chicago: The engaging 48-year-old …
