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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

Old Boys review - short but not especially sweet

Saturday, 23 February 2019 Read more...

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Young Vic review - shards of power amidst much that is overwrought

Friday, 22 February 2019 Read more...

Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre review - Trump-inflected fantasia mixes the polemical and the poetic

Thursday, 21 February 2019 Read more...

Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre review - a necessary corrective to our traumatic times

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 Read more...

9 to 5 the Musical review - Dolly Parton's film returns as retooled version of a Broadway flop

Monday, 18 February 2019 Read more...

A Private War review - Rosamund Pike burns with passion in well-meaning biopic

Saturday, 16 February 2019 Read more...

All About Eve, Noel Coward Theatre review - less a bumpy night than an erratically arresting one

Thursday, 14 February 2019 Read more...

All Is True review - all's well doesn't end well in limp Shakespeare biopic

Saturday, 09 February 2019 Read more...

Vice review - Christian Bale on surging and satiric form

Friday, 25 January 2019 Read more...

Beautiful Boy review - well-acted but a slog

Friday, 18 January 2019 Read more...

Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios review - Kevin Elyot play has lost the pathos if not the plot

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Read more...

Pinters Five and Six, Harold Pinter Theatre review - superlatively acted esoterica

Tuesday, 08 January 2019 Read more...

Life Itself review - epically vapid

Saturday, 05 January 2019 Read more...

Best of 2018: Theatre

Sunday, 30 December 2018 Read more...

Sweat, Donmar Warehouse review - America at once fractured and fractious

Thursday, 20 December 2018 Read more...

The Tell-Tale Heart, National Theatre review - bloody good fun as well as bloody

Monday, 17 December 2018 Read more...

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Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...

Summer Laugh review - five comics gear up for the Fringe

Appearing at the Edinburgh Fringe has long been an expensive gig for comics. But while stand-ups may need only a microphone to ply...

Album: Brìghde Chaimbeul - Sunwise

The first five-and-a-half minutes of Sunwise’s opening track “Dùsgadh / Waking" are taken up by a drone. Played on the Scottish small...

Music Reissues Weekly: Rupert’s People - Dream In My Mind

Procol Harum’s “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was an instant phenomenon. Recorded in April 1967 and issued as a single on 12 May after pre-release play...

Intimate Apparel, Donmar Warehouse review - stirring story o...

The corset is an unlikely star of the latest Lynn Nottage play to arrive at the...