1,498 stories by "Matt Wolf"
A TV talent show star plays Dorothy in the staged version of "The Wizard of Oz," while "Spelling Bee" looks at competitive culture and "Drowning on Dry Land" pits a loser against a children'…
Few North Americans have made the swift impression on the London theater scene left by 25-year-old Sarah Goldberg, a Vancouver native who came to London six years ago to attend drama school …
The hottest ticket of this still-young London theater year is the director Ian Rickson’s scorching revival of The Children’s Hour, Lillian Hellman’s play about charges of l…
A new production of Brian Friel's play at the Old Vic in Bristol is mesmerizing.
Ben Goddard accompanied himself on guitar and flute—among other instruments—as Joe Gillis in a pared-down West End revival of Sunset Boulevard and spent the better part of a year…
The 39 Steps ranks as the West End’s longest currently running comedy, and Rufus Wright has just stepped into the leading role of stiff-upper-lipped hero Richard Hannay. This affection…
"Greenland'' at the National Theatre in London offers worst-case scenarios for the planet, alongside the occasional fact and a heartening burst of pop culture.
Four years out of Cambridge University, Robyn Addison is making her professional stage debut opposite Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles in Sir Peter Hall’s production of The Rivals, the …
Harriet Thorpe may be best-known in the US as Patsy’s chum Fleur in TV's Absolutely Fabulous, but the actress has been a mainstay of West End musicals for years. Thorpe played Frau…
The much heralded "Twelfth Night" is on at the National Theatre in London and "Becky Shaw," imported from America has its own handy glossary.
It’s not always the case that an alternate leading lady ends up the star, but that is now happening at London’s Savoy Theatre, where 27-year-old Dubliner Susan McFadden has repla…
Jonathan Cake is marking a homecoming of sorts by spending a London winter co-starring with his old friend (and Cambridge University classmate) Tom Hollander in the Feydeau farce A Flea In H…
Fine acting redeems "A Flea in Her Ear" at the Old Vic, but "The Invisible Man'' at the Menier Chocolate Factory falls flat.
Samantha Bond may be best-known the world over as Moneypenny in the James Bond (no relation!) films, back when Pierce Brosnan was playing 007. But the distinctively smoky-voiced actress has …
From Shakespeare to Sondheim, the theater scene in London brought something for almost everyone.
London boasts well over 150 significant openings a year, more than triple the number Broadway musters these days in an entire season. Where to begin, then, in looking back with pleasure on t…
Michael Grandage directs the grand tragedy in the intimate space of the Donmar while, at the National Theater, Alan Ayckbourn registers the holiday season as only he can do.
She’s hosted breakfast television in the UK as well as a Broadway-related reality show (Grease: You’re The One That I Want). But Denise Van Outen is also a dedicated theater perf…
Tracie Bennett gives a full-throttle performance as Judy Garland in "End of the Rainbow," and a "Master Builder" is staged from the ground up.
The Royal Court and the National dominated the London Evening Standard theatre awards, and rightly so. Non-subsidised theatre needs to get its act togetherIs there any good new commercial th…
The personal meets the political in a return to the London stage of "Blasted" and "The Train Driver."
There's little doubt that Raul Esparza will one day make a fine Ben...
Few plays put the actual artistic process at center stage with as much energy and command as John Logan's "Red."
