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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

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation review - genius dogged by disappointment

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Oscars 2021: Sluggish, yes, but some surprises too

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Sequin in a Blue Room review - soullessness and sex in Sydney

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Six Minutes to Midnight review - Judi Dench retains her dignity

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Moxie review - likeable if confused high school comedy

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To Olivia review - Keeley Hawes rises above brainless biopic

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Penguin Bloom, Netflix review - stirringly acted if sentimental

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Blithe Spirit review - cloth-eared Coward

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Best of 2020: Theatre

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A Christmas Carol, Old Vic online review - the bells have it once again

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A Christmas Carol, Dominion Theatre review - brash and bustling and snowy, too

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I'm Your Woman review - what's happening, indeed?

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The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre review - menace without a hint of mirth

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The Prom review - merry Meryl in middling musical

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GHBoy, Charing Cross Theatre review - drugs and sex but no rock 'n' roll

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Uncle Frank review - well-acted but painfully contrived

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Trouble in Tahiti/A Quiet Place, Linbury Theatre review - to...

Most of us have been there: an impasse in a marriage, a bereavement in a dysfunctional family. Leonard Bernstein certainly had when he composed...

London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip t...

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The Last of the Sea Women review - a moving tale of feisty t...

“The ocean is our home… Even in my next life I will dive again,” says Geum Ok, one of a band of female divers from Jeju, a volcanic island 60...

First Person: Lindsey Ferrentino on the play that has led Ad...

I turn 36 this year, while living in London and rehearsing my new play The Fear of 13 at the Donmar Warehouse. The cast places a cake on...

Timestalker review – she's lost control again

Unlike the controversial Netflix show Baby Reindeer, which challenges many of the same attitudes towards sexual harassment, self-delusion...

Kanga, Manchester Collective, Singh, RNCM Manchester review...

Of all the inventive and enterprising things Manchester Collective do, it’s most often been the playing of a string ensemble led from first desk...

theartsdesk Q&A: Alice Lowe on 'Timestalker' a...

Before Alice Lowe wrote her first short film scripts, she was, despite success in television and theater, “terrified” of making a full-length...

The Lehman Trilogy, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - three bro...

Merchant bankers then eh? It’s not a slang term of abuse for nothing, as the middlemen collecting the crumbs off the cake (in...

Filumena, Theatre Royal Windsor review - Mozartian marriage...

Of all the ingenues in all the world of golden TV sitcom, Felicity Kendal was the most innocent, the most wicked, the most deceptive, with an...