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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

The Writer, Almeida Theatre review - deconstruction run rampant

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Beast review - mesmerising and murky in equal measure

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Strictly Ballroom: The Musical, Piccadilly Theatre review - largely naff

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Kathleen Turner: Finding My Voice, The Other Palace review - a familiar name in freshly exciting form

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120 BPM review - stirring portrait of French activism in the age of AIDS

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Kiss of the Spider Woman, Menier Chocolate Factory review - brilliantly performed and imaginatively staged

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Caroline, or Change, Hampstead Theatre review - Sharon D Clarke conquers

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Hamlet, RSC, Hackney Empire review - Paapa Essiedu's winning Dane

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Oscars 2018: The shape of a snoozefest

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Game Night review - Rachel McAdams is bliss in bonkers comedy thriller

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The York Realist, Donmar Warehouse review - a miniaturist masterpiece

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Dry Powder/Yous Two, Hampstead Theatre review - Hayley Atwell has competition

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Phantom Thread review - Daniel Day-Lewis bows out in style

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All's Well That Ends Well, Sam Wanamaker Playhouse review - feisty, prickly and topical, as well

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Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Royal Court review - iconic 1980s title makes a welcome return

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My Mum's a Twat, Royal Court review - Patsy Ferran shines in a solo play that looks back in anger

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Eye to Eye: Homage to Ernst Scheidegger, MASI Lugano review...

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Christian Pierre La Marca, Yaman Okur, St Martin-in-The-Fiel...

The French cellist Christian-Pierre La Marca confesses that – like so many classical musicians...

That They May Face The Rising Sun review - lyrical adaptatio...

In director Pat Collins’s lyrical adaptation of John McGahern’s last novel, with cinematography by Richard Kendrick, the landscape is perhaps the...

Album: Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless

This album came with an absolutely enormous promo campaign. As well as actual advertising there were “Audience With…” events, and specials on BBC...

Ridout, Włoszczowska, Crawford, Lai, Posner, Wigmore Hall re...

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Stephen review - a breathtakingly good first feature by a mu...

Stephen is the first feature film by multi-media artist Melanie Manchot and it’s the best debut film I’ve seen since Steve McQueen’s ...

Album: Mdou Moctar - Funeral for Justice

Despite its title, Mdou Moctar’s new album is no slow-paced mournful dirge. In fact, it is louder, faster and more overtly political than any of...

Blue Lights Series 2, BBC One review - still our best cop sh...

The first season of Blue Nights was so close to ...

Sabine Devieilhe, Mathieu Pordoy, Wigmore Hall review - ench...

Sabine Devieilhe, as with many other great sopranos, elicits much fan worship, with no less than three encores at her recent Wigmore Hall recital...

Jonn Elledge: A History of the World in 47 Borders review -...

In A History of the World in 47 Borders, Jonn Elledge takes an ostensibly dry subject – how maps and boundaries have shaped our world –...