1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
"Decade," a mosaic of responses to the Sept. 11 tragedy, acts as a textual tapestry of grief, rage and compassion -- and as first-rate theater, too.
Lucy Briers comes by her theatrical leanings naturally as the daughter of actress Ann Davies and the veteran English comic actor Richard Briers (a 1998 Tony nominee for his Broadway performa…
Alex Gaumond was adorable (and sang up a storm) as Emmett in Legally Blonde, garnering an Olivier Award nomination, and the Montreal native has since gone all rock-starry and cool (while sti…
Two plays toy with structure and time, and the cockeyed optimist comes to town.
Memo to William Shakespeare: could we have more, please, in The Tempest of the anxious, angsty Prospero, the mortality-minded magus played in his most riveting theatre performance in years b…
It's grin and bear it - even on occasion bare it - time at Shakespeare's Globe, which closes its 2011 season not with a bang but with a wearyingly facetious whimper. A nice idea that in diff…
Martin Marquez has worked extensively around London, often in the not-for-profit theater. For now, Martin is appearing at the Victoria Palace as Dad in Billy Elliot, the same role that won G…
He has opened in Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" for a limited run in which he plays a swaggering Irish stoker last played on Broadway in 1993 by Liam Neeson.
After years of exploring classic plays—from Shakespeare and Stoppard to David Hare and Alan Bennett—at the National Theatre, Adrian Scarborough is making his musical theater debu…
Who says little guys finish last? As the diminutive Lord Farquaad in the West End incarnation of the Broadway musical Shrek, Nigel Harman all but walks off with the Drury Lane production, pl…
Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
Sam Attwater has done the British TV soap opera rounds, first in Hollyoaks and then EastEnders. In March, he hit it big on the reality competition Dancing on Ice, delivering a show-stopping …
The South Bank complex has just opened a fourth performance space to showcase a double bill of four new works by young playwrights, running in repertory through September.
Alfie Boe earned a place in musical theater history when the opera star played Jean Valjean last fall at London’s O2 arena in two gala performances commemorating the 25th anniversary o…
Chris Ellis-Stanton is one of the UK’s most appealing young musical actors, having jumped from understudying and playing Billy Flynn in Chicago on the West End to Billy Crocker on tour…
From Ben Miles in "Betrayal" to Haydn Gwynne in "Richard III," supporting players have been stealing shows.
Shakespeare in the Park explores two of Shakespeare's thorny "problem plays" — Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well.
Sharon D Clarke has some of the best pipes in the business, as London audiences who have seen her in We Will Rock You, Hairspray, Once on This Island and Guys and Dolls can attest. The 46-ye…
Dominic West came to prominence in the U.S. playing the American working-class cop McNulty in TV’s much-lauded The Wire. The dashing actor has since forsaken the Baltimore climes of th…
In "The Village Bike," the wonderful new play from Penelope Skinner in the Royal Court's tiny Theatre Upstairs, the devouring sexuality of a village teacher takes center stage.
Samuel Barnett will be long remembered for playing the heartsick student Posner in Alan Bennett’s Tony-winning The History Boys, a performance that earned him a 2006 Best Featured Acto…
It was six years ago that Damian Humbley, not long in London from his native Australia, was cast alongside Ruthie Henshall in the replacement cast of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Woman in…
Kristin Scott Thomas tackles Harold Pinter in a revival staged by Ian Rickson.
Nineteen-year-old Danielle Hope is the latest performer to have landed a starring role in a big-budget West End musical via reality TV. Hope won out over some 9,000 girls to become “th…
Caissie Levy has starred in three iconic musicals: Wicked (in L.A., as Elphaba), Rent (on tour, as Maureen) and Hair (on Broadway and the West End, as Sheila). Now she’s taking the lea…
