Matt Wolf
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- Bio
- Matt is London theatre critic of the International Herald Tribune (on the net at nytimes.com) and London correspondent for the broadway.com website; he spent 21 years as London arts and theatre critic for the Associated Press and over 13 years as Variety's UK critic. In 2009 he joined the judging panel of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Articles by Matt Wolf
Hard Feelings, Finborough Theatre
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Doug Lucie's signature spikiness remains intact, and then some, in the Defibrillator production of Hard Feelings, which is sure to pack out west London's tiny Finborough and might well be a candidate... Read more... |
Much Ado About Nothing
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Ever wondered what Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel creator, not to mention superhero movie A-lister Josh Whedon, does during his down time? Well, apparently he gets his pals together to have a go... Read more... |
Stuck in Love
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
People genuinely care about words in Josh Boone's directing debut, Stuck in Love, and that's as might be expected from a film that went by the name of Writers when it premiered in Toronto last autumn... Read more... |
Behind the Candelabra
Thursday, 06 June 2013
The party's over in more senses than one in Behind the Candelabra, the Steven Soderbergh film dedicated to the proposition that all that glitters is most definitely not gold. It charts the downward... Read more... |
The Big Wedding
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
You gotta love Diane Keaton all the way from Annie Hall to Something's Gotta Give, but even her natural effervescence can't enliven The Big Wedding, a starry celluloid venture that is landing in... Read more... |
Relatively Speaking, Wyndham's Theatre
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
The pronouns have it in Alan Ayckbourn's career-defining comedy of spiralling misunderstandings, which has arrived on the West End 46 years after first hinting at the formidable talent of a dramatist... Read more... |
The Great Gatsby
Thursday, 16 May 2013
The mothership has landed. After a year or so of countless stage adaptations ranging from a recitation of the novel in its entirety to a themed party and (just this week) a dance piece, Baz Luhrmann'... Read more... |
The Eye of the Storm
Friday, 03 May 2013
Family dramas don't come much fruitier than The Eye of the Storm. Fred Schepisi's film adaptation of Nobel laureate Patrick White's 1973 novel will speak most potently to those for whom the (far... Read more... |
Olivier Awards 2013: Many Shows Called, Few Chosen
Monday, 29 April 2013
The Oliviers consider more than twice the number of productions for their annual awards compared to Broadway's Tonys. But you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise following Sunday night's 37th... Read more... |
All Things to All Men
Friday, 05 April 2013
Sigh: here's not much of anything for anyone, actually, to indulge a self-evident riff on the title of yet another in a seemingly ceaseless parade of subpar Brit-gangster films, this one from first-... Read more... |
Broken
Wednesday, 06 March 2013
"I'm so worn out with it," a character remarks in a different context well into Rufus Norris's film Broken, to which one is tempted to respond, "Ain't that the truth!" A dissection of so-called "... Read more... |
Oscars 2013: Day-Lewis 3, Skyfall 1½, MacFarlane 0
Monday, 25 February 2013
Emmanuelle Riva travelled all the way to Los Angeles for that? I doubt I’m the only one whose heart went out to the radiant French actress, newly turned 86, as the 85th annual Academy Awards drew to... Read more... |
Oscars 2013: Best Picture/Foreign Language Film/Animated Film
Friday, 22 February 2013
Time is drawing nigh to mark those Oscar ballots, but what movie should one vote for as the year's best? While odds-makers have been busily touting one title over another, the less-vaunted fact about... Read more... |
Mama
Thursday, 21 February 2013
You don't have to be highly impressionable to get a shriek or two out of Mama, but it would help, and I suppose there are filmgoers who may never look at walls in quite the same way again. Elegantly... Read more... |
The Stepmother, Orange Tree Theatre
Sunday, 10 February 2013
When's the last time you encountered a play with a hissable anti-hero and a young heroine who radiates charity, decency, and all things good? Those polarities are on full-throttle view in The... Read more... |
Hitchcock
Thursday, 07 February 2013
A pedestrian talent hitches a ride on genius in Hitchcock, director Sacha Gervasi's often cringemakingly banal look at the filmmaker in the run-up to the mother of all horror movies, Psycho. One... Read more... |
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