1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
Accolades are due again for the tiny Finborough Theatre, whose production of JB Priestley's all-but-unknown Cornelius constitutes the most exciting reclamation from the English theatrical ca…
The ever-libidinous Guy (Jason Durr) is "as subtle as a fire engine" when it comes to sex, or so we're told during the course of Volcano, and it's difficult not to feel that this belated Noe…
British TV star Jason Durr (Heartbeat) is spending the summer seducing women on a Caribbean island in the West End premiere of Volcano, a previously unknown Noel Coward play that sheds light…
Sierra Boggess is the first to admit that she has had an, um, interesting year. Announced as the star of Rebecca opposite her real-life fiancé Tam Mutu, Boggess jumped to Prince of Br…
The triumphalist spirit of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" tallies with the mood of this summer's athletic aspirations.
Jack Lowden is making his West End debut as Olympic runner and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, the 1981 Oscar winner that has been adapted into a play by Mike Bartlett. Tha…
Philadelphia, Here I Come! ends in its Donmar invocation with the roar of a plane taking off, which only amplifies one's sense that the show has taken some while to take wing. Markedly bette…
Oskar Eustis, Stephen Sondheim and Donna Murphy celebrate the special atmosphere that is Central Park's Delacorte Theater, now home to a new production of Into the Woods.
Two of Britain's finest actors take charge of two of Shakespeare's toughest roles.
It’s not every day that a West End show stars an Olympic gold medalist—and skating champ Robin Cousins’ 1980 medallion is actually on display in a Tiffany box in the foyer …
"A Doll's House'' proves its issues of money and women's rights still resonate, while ''Ten Billion'' offers chills in its warnings about modern living.
Neil McDermott has stepped (or perhaps one should say knelt down) into the role of the physically challenged, campily malevolent Lord Farquaad in the hit London production of Shrek the Music…
Henry Lloyd-Hughes brings a ready swagger and insolence to the part of Dimitri, the rude, moneyed Greek boy in Posh, Laura Wade’s hit West End play about an assemblage of posh Oxford u…
Two absurdist comedies, "Birthday'' and "The Physicists," challenge London audiences to keep pace.
Jodie Prenger came to fame via the British reality TV show I’d Do Anything, securing the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh's recent West End revival of Oliver! and going on to st…
The Taming of the Shrew celebrates its own rumbustious, raucous (mis)behaviour, so why shouldn't Shakespeare's comedy be granted a production that follows suit? From an opening gambit i…
It’s been almost 20 years since Anna Chancellor shot to attention as Henrietta (a.k.a. “Duckface”) in the hit film comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Since then, the raven…
A Shakespeare trilogy and a "Great Gatsby" marathon figure in the London stage lineup.
A quadruple threat who can sing, dance, act and do a spot-on American accent, 27-year-old Summer Strallen has inherited Ginger Rogers’ screen role in the London stage premiere of the 1…
It’s the perfect summer for the West End debut of Chariots of Fire, Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film about two British runners competing in the 192…
If it's possible for a piece of writing to remain significant, even important, without necessarily being great, that would describe the status of Harvey Fierstein's epoch-defining Torch Song…
The young director, Polly Findlay, succeeds by giving the Greek tragedy by Sophocles a contemporary update in London.
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) made it past the finish line, Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) did not, and the art-house musical Once trumped Disney's latest Broadway entry, Newsies,…
Sophie Evans has been skipping down the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy in the West End stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since February, having assumed the role from original star Danielle …
Productions at the life-changing Globe to Globe sequence of international takes on the Bard have had numerous points of origin, from shows conceived directly for the event to reprises of sta…
