1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher), i…
Raza Jaffrey played a political wheeler-dealer on TV’s Smash, but the Anglo-Asian star came to the series as a stage vet of the London productions of Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams,…
Protesters assail Israeli theater troupe's performance of "Merchant of Venice" at the Globe.
The battle of the sexes took on a bright and breezy tone in Pakistan's contribution to the Globe's ongoing Bardathon, the Theatre Wallay-Kashf's rumbustious production of The Taming of the S…
It's both easy and fashionable to render ironic, or scoff at, the title of All's Well That Ends Well. This is the Shakespeare "comedy" in which the rabidly obsessed Helena finally ensnares h…
It’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with …
Clothes are shed, sensibilities skewered, and political correctness defiantly ignored in this latest London revival of Joe Orton's wonderful play (the fourth, for what it's worth, in the cap…
Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime&…
Prismatic brilliance sweeps the London stage, from Laurie Metcalf in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey," to Summer Strallen in "Top Hat" and Anna Chancellor in a Rattigan-Hare double-bill.
Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney To…
An Oliver Award-winning play makes its way to New York from London, with its considered and blunt title intact.
Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chic…
A triptych of plays woven by Robert Holman back in the '80s involve encounters among strangers in wartime.
Things didn't go well for Eva Perons past and present at this morning's announcement from New York of the nominations for Broadway's 2012 Tony Awards, honouring the best of the 2011/12 theat…
Winner of seven 2012 Olivier Awards, Matilda isn’t just about a literary-minded tot and a battle-axe of a headmistress (Bertie Carvel's Miss Trunchbull). The supporting cast of Mat…
So, what's the "problem"? All is right with the world - or the theatre at least - in the Maori-language staging of Troilus and Cressida from the Auckland-based Ngakau Toa troupe that pi…
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
Andrew Alexander is the eighth actor to play the debonair, tweed-suited Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps, London’s longest running comedy, at the Criterion Theatre. A graduate of King&rs…
A new production of "Uncle Vanya" at the Print Room and of "Sweeney Todd" at the Adelphi are impressive renditions of favorite vehicles for actors.
As previously reported, Matilda was the big winner at London’s 2012 Olivier Awards on April 15, taking home a record seven trophies—and the musical’s quartet of young Best …
The 36th Laurence Olivier Awards included a handful of indelible moments, including a joint Best Actress win and six other awards for Matilda. (Meanwhile, multiple nominees such as One Man, …
Matilda, the Royal Shakespeare Company-spawned musical about an extraordinary young girl, managed the extraordinary feat Sunday of snaring a record seven trophies at last night's 36th Lauren…
The effervescent Katherine Kingsley is celebrating her second Olivier Award nomination for the formidable style (and nasal squawk) she brings to sidelined silent movie actress Lina Lamont in…
Reviews of "The Duchess of Malfi'' and "Vera Vera Vera" in a busy London season.
Lindsay Duncan, winner of both a Tony and an Olivier Award for her scintillating performance as Amanda in Noel Coward’s Private Lives, is back on the West End a decade later leading a …
