1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
If it's possible to take a loving and empathic approach to decidedly intractable material, the director Michael Attenborough achieves precisely that with Filumena, in which Samantha Spi…
Gregory Doran was today named the incoming artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he will succeed Michael Boyd in the post later this year. The announcement came as no sur…
It’s not easy following in the steps of an Oscar winner like Colin Firth, but the gifted Charles Edwards, who will take the stage beginning March 22 as stuttering monarch George VI in …
The theater offers up a revival from Trinidad and another visit from some contentious Australians.
Phone rings, door chimes, in comes Company, this time sporting surround sound and high definition and at a cinema near you. Tonight marks a rare opportunity to see a New York gala - the sort…
Was it the players, or the play, that has made a phenomenon out of One Man, Two Guvnors, the prize-winning comedy now on its third London theatre and preparing to hop the pond to Broadway ne…
Richard Nelson's "Farewell to the Theatre" and Mike Leigh's "Abigail's Party" are studies in cruelty, the first among a group of expatriates on a U.S. college campus and the second at a cock…
The master's "Hay Fever" is a triumph, and, with a play called "Goodbye to All That," a new wise writer emerges.
The master of the modern musical adores London, a city he first visited in 1952, and it's safe to say that the capital more than repays Stephen Sondheim's affections. The veteran Broadway co…
Dean Chisnall, 29, a regular West End presence in the six years since he left West London’s Arts Educational drama school, is now stepping into the title role in Shrek the Musical at t…
Tyne Daly has won a Tony Award and multiple Emmys and interspersed her TV renown with stage work in the classics (The Seagull), musicals (Gypsy), and new plays (Rabbit Hole). Now she has add…
"Absent Friends'' mines its characters' woes for laughter and pathos, while another revival of "Singin' in the Rain'' leaves audiences damp, but delighted.
Oliver Tompsett made his West End debut in the Madness musical Our House before moving on to Mamma Mia! and a long run as Fiyero in Wicked. The engaging 30-year-old is now getting the vocal …
Dianne Pilkington enjoyed a long and acclaimed West End run as Glinda in Wicked and starred as Amalia in last year’s Chichester Festival revival of She Loves Me, with a stint in The 39…
In "Outward Bound" and "The House of Bernarda Alba," emotions play big at some smaller theaters.
Ramin Karimloo spent many years wearing the most famous of musical theater masks, first in The Phantom of the Opera and then its sequel, Love Never Dies, for which he received an Olivier Awa…
No one can exactly accuse Federico Garcia Lorca's 1936 play of falling into neglect. From Howard Davies's National Theatre revival to this latest reclamation by the Almeida, The House of Ber…
Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the …
Siobhan Dillon has spent a busy few years on West End stages, first in Grease and then as Elle Woods’ rival Vivienne in Legally Blonde. Now she has signed on for a yearlong run as the …
Reviews of the London plays "Constellations," "The Art of Concealment" and "Travelling Light.''
It’s been more than a dozen years since Adam Cooper stormed Broadway as the Swan in Matthew Bourne’s sexy, stylish, revisionist Swan Lake, earning a 1999 Tony nomination for Best…
Not everyone gets to make a West End splash as a lovesick, poshly spoken, faintly dimwitted chap who also happens to be wildly hairy and vaguely masochistic. “I, too, enjoy pain,&rdquo…
In several recent London productions, any jolliness on view moves very much toward murder or darkness " or everlasting hell.
Just over two years ago, Eddie Redmayne opened at London’s cozy Donmar Warehouse as the assistant to artist Mark Rothko (Alfred Molina) in John Logan’s Red, a performance that wo…
This was a year on the London stage in which Shakespeare often appeared twice over (with two productions each of Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors and Richard III), a…
