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

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...	The Double Dealer, Orange Tree Theatre review - high spirits and low morals Wednesday, 12 December 2018 Read more...
True West, Vaudeville Theatre review - sizzling take on seminal Sam Shepard Thursday, 06 December 2018 Read more...	Pinters Three and Four, Harold Pinter Theatre review - double bill boasts double acts to treasure Tuesday, 13 November 2018 Read more...
Still No Idea, Royal Court review - spiky, funny, and politically pointed Tuesday, 06 November 2018 Read more...	The Wild Duck, Almeida Theatre review - meta, merciless and altogether brilliant Thursday, 25 October 2018 Read more...
Wise Children, Old Vic review - Emma Rice in fun if not quite top-flight form Saturday, 20 October 2018 Read more...	Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse review - Shakespeare twice-over packs a partial sting Tuesday, 16 October 2018 Read more...
The Height of the Storm, Wyndham's Theatre review - Eileen Atkins raises the elliptical to art Thursday, 11 October 2018 Read more...	Twelfth Night, Young Vic review - Kwame Kwei-Armah makes a big-hearted return home Tuesday, 09 October 2018 Read more...

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Write about what you know, they say. And just as her previous show was about imminent motherhood (she performed the show while heavily...

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The clatter of cool jazz on the soundtrack announces writer-director Kelly Reichardt’s latest project, the kind of score that back in the day...

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Matt Wolf

Articles By Matt Wolf

Beautiful Boy review - well-acted but a slog

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

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

Life Itself review - epically vapid

Best of 2018: Theatre

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

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

The Double Dealer, Orange Tree Theatre review - high spirits and low morals

True West, Vaudeville Theatre review - sizzling take on seminal Sam Shepard

Pinters Three and Four, Harold Pinter Theatre review - double bill boasts double acts to treasure

Still No Idea, Royal Court review - spiky, funny, and politically pointed

The Wild Duck, Almeida Theatre review - meta, merciless and altogether brilliant

Wise Children, Old Vic review - Emma Rice in fun if not quite top-flight form

Measure for Measure, Donmar Warehouse review - Shakespeare twice-over packs a partial sting

The Height of the Storm, Wyndham's Theatre review - Eileen Atkins raises the elliptical to art

Twelfth Night, Young Vic review - Kwame Kwei-Armah makes a big-hearted return home

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