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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

Admissions, Trafalgar Studios review - topical and whiplash-smart

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Read more...

Waitress, Adelphi Theatre review - sweet if sometimes silly musical arrives from Broadway

Friday, 08 March 2019 Read more...

Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman crowned queen of Hollywood

Monday, 25 February 2019 Read more...

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...

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