1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
For increasing numbers of people, food is theatre, so what better time to combine the two into the slight, sweet, determinedly socially conscious evening that is Gastronauts, the Royal Court…
I guess the BBC can't afford researchers or fact-checkers these days. If they could, perhaps something of substance might have arisen from their vacuous Culture Show entry on Vicky Featherst…
Is there West End life after Heather Headley? The answer is yes at London’s Adelphi Theatre, where British soul singer Beverley Knight is leading the Olivier-nominated musical The Body…
Despite an impressive performance form Daniel Craig, Mike Nichols production gets away from the essence of Pinter s work.
Jack Huston plays a hit man viewers can’t help liking on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, and now he’s coming at murder from a different angle on the London stage. The British-born …
Rosalie Craig has appeared in musicals up and down the U.K., from London Road at the National and Ragtime in Regent’s Park to the out-of-town tryout of Finding Neverland, directed by R…
Debbie Tucker Green's "Nut" explores a mind in torment, and two 2 revivals " "Home" and "Passing By" " stay open to interpretation.
Jeff Fahey is familiar to TV fans from his two seasons as a rescue pilot on Lost and as the sheriff in early episodes of Under the Dome, as well as for his work in movies such as The Lawnmow…
London's National Theater threw itself a 50th birthday party on Saturday, paying tribute to the storied past of what is arguably the most important address in the English-speaking stage.
The National Theatre tonight hosts its 50th-birthday gala, 11 days after the English-speaking theatre's most important and influential address in fact reached the half-century mark. With cel…
The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
The fall season is heating up in London, with November highlights that include a three-time Tony winner testing his classical chops, two plays better known as films, Sondheim in concert and …
Different degrees of realism are at play in James Macdonald's production of "Roots," Tamara Harvey's "From Here to Eternity" and Mark Rylance's "Much Ado About Nothing." &nb…
Scottish-born actor Stephen Ashfield is delighting London audiences as Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon, giving a career-defining performance every bit as sweetly outrageous and full-thr…
Darius Campbell, the strapping Scottish-born Pop Idol alum, is no stranger to stage musicals that arrive with weighty pedigrees. His commanding Rhett Butler was the best thing about director…
Matt Wolf reviews two new London musicals, "The Light Princess'' and "The Commitments'' as well as Richard Eyre's play "Ghosts.''
The Commitments is the first in a series of high-profile musical premieres in London this fall, a lineup that includes The Light Princess, From Here to Eternity, and Stephen Ward. If there i…
It’s musical month in London, with major openings every week in October. Visitors can choose from the rollicking tale of an Irish soul band, a fairytale debut from Tori Amos, Tim Rice&…
An actor turns playwright while another directs Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream."
That slice of Broadway-upon-Southwark that is the Menier Chocolate Factory has a toxic treat in The Lyons, Nicky Silver's pitch-black and quintessentially New York comedy about a family so i…
Not so long ago, Kristen Beth Williams was a Broadway ensemble player and understudy in such shows as Promises, Promises and Nice Work If You Can Get It. But the 32-year-old Texan has been s…
As The Bodyguard heads towards its first birthday on the West End in December, the musical is welcoming two new leads: Beverley Knight has replaced Tony winner Heather Headley in the late Wh…
Productions of "Edward II," "The Ritual Slaughter of Gorge Mastromas," and "Fleabag" show that London theater is in a fearsome mood these days.
The American repertoire has featured big-time on the London stage this year but perhaps nowhere more oddly than courtesy the ever-adventurous Orange Tree's staging of a World War Two play fr…
Rare is the Broadway performer who lands two London gigs in a single season, but Tony nominee Colman Domingo is celebrating his first-ever trip to the U.K. with back-to-back runs of his 2009…
