Matt Wolf
Bio
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
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County Lines review - a scary descent into drug-dealer purga...
This debut feature by writer/director Henry...
Natalie Palamides: Nate: A One Man Show, Netflix review - de...
Edgy comedy runs the risk of discomfiting the audience so much that they can't relax and enjoy the show. But Natalie Palamides, appearing as Nate...
Album: High Contrast - Notes From the Underground
Dance music has a notably different relationship to its past than other kinds of music. This has a real, material basis: because its core...
Zanele Muholi, Tate Modern review - photography as protest
Hail the Dark Lioness (Somnyama Ngonyama in Zulu) is a powerful celebration of...
Mank review – David Fincher’s brilliant, bitter-sweet paean...
For so much of the year, Tenet was cited as the film that was going to save cinema – the tentpole extravaganza that would draw...
Mary Chapin Carpenter, One Night Lonely livestream review -...
Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Songs from Home has been an anchor-point almost since the beginning of lockdown for many people, all of us invited into...
Collective review - waging war on corruption
It was around the time of the 14th century Black Death that the word “corruption” – from the Latin corruptus, the past participle of ...
Album: Nick Cave & Nicholas Lens - L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S.
The Covid pandemic has meant, with both performance and recording opportunities at a minimum, that many musicians have had to apply a bit of...
The Undoing, Series Finale, Sky Atlantic review - bluff and...
Throughout its preceding five episodes, The Undoing (...
Christine Rice, Julius Drake, Wigmore Hall review - songs of...
It began as a Christmas present in the bleakest of winters. In December 1939, as war engulfed Europe, Bertolt Brecht sent a poem to the exiled...