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Matt Wolf

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Matt is London theatre critic of The International New York Times (formerly The International Herald Tribune) 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 drama critic. He has been on the judging panel of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards since 2009.

Articles By Matt Wolf

Crazy For You, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - high-kicking heaven

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Dear England, National Theatre review - filtering the national narrative through sport

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Aspects of Love, Lyric Theatre review - not much has actually changed

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Beau is Afraid review - life's ordeals in lengthy detail

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The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review - theatrical titans face off

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Dancing at Lughnasa, National Theatre review - largely ravishing Brian Friel revival

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Private Lives, Donmar Warehouse review - Coward revival cuts to the quick

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Allelujah review - Alan Bennett put through the blender

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Oscars 2023 - the favourite lives up to its title

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Shirley Valentine, Duke of York's Theatre review - Sheridan Smith slays it

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Best of 2022: Theatre

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Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre review - opposites attract, sort of

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Matilda the Musical review - a dizzying, smartly subversive delight

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Bones and All review - eat, don't heat

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The Band's Visit, Donmar Warehouse review - still waters run bittersweet

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Eureka Day, Old Vic review - fun if not entirely fulfilling

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Octopolis, Hampstead Theatre review - blue, blue, electric b...

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The National, OVO Hydro, Glasgow, review - commanding arenas...

There remains something disconcerting about seeing the National as arena rockers. Perhaps it’s the nonchalant stage entrance as they stroll on, a...

Annie Ernaux: Shame review - the translation of pain

The latest translation of Annie Ernaux’s Shame – a text most closely akin to a long-form...

Mahler 2, LPO, Gardner, RFH review - an interpretation of su...

Epic and intimate, philosophically anguished and rhapsodically transcendent, Mahler’s "Resurrection" Symphony remains one of the most mountainous...

Mad Rush, Carol Williams, RFH review - a rainbow of organ co...

Big Ben was chiming the quarter-hour as I hit the South Bank side of the river after a not terribly inspiring Remain rally in Parliament Square....

The Nettle Dress review - a moving story exquisitely told

Lasting just over an hour, The Nettle Dress is like a fairy story. It builds very slowly, each beautifully framed shot contributing...

The Ossianic Ballads, Edinburgh Quartet, Màiri MacMillan, Na...

To coincide with the National Library of Scotland’s first bi-lingual exhibition Sguel/Story, an exhibition in English and...

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It felt inevitable that Doja Cat would turn her back on being a popstar. The Californian rapper’s career has been shaped by her ambivalent...

Music Reissues Weekly: Shake That Thing - The Blues in Brita...

In September 1955, the grandly named London Skiffle Centre set up for business each Thursday in a room above the Round House pub in Soho’s Wardour...

Marina Abramović, Royal Academy review - young performers st...

One of the most cherished memories of my 40 plus years as an art critic is of easing my way between Marina Abramović and her partner Ulay. They...