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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

Be More Chill, The Other Palace review - more exhausting than enlightening

Monday, 24 February 2020 Read more...

A Number, Bridge Theatre review - a dream team dazzles anew

Friday, 21 February 2020 Read more...

The Visit, National Theatre review - star turn bolsters baggy rewrite

Saturday, 15 February 2020 Read more...

Leopoldstadt, Wyndham's Theatre review - Stoppard at once personal and accessible

Friday, 14 February 2020 Read more...

Oscars 2020: a 'Parasite' love-in caps a night of firsts

Monday, 10 February 2020 Read more...

Albion, Almeida Theatre review - more rewarding and resonant than ever

Thursday, 06 February 2020 Read more...

Plus One review - charm, yes, but irritation too

Wednesday, 05 February 2020 Read more...

The Sunset Limited, Boulevard Theatre review - all talk, no theatre

Friday, 24 January 2020 Read more...

You Stupid Darkness!, Southwark Playhouse review - an intriguing muddle

Tuesday, 21 January 2020 Read more...

Best of 2019: Theatre

Saturday, 28 December 2019 Read more...

Curtains, Wyndham's Theatre review - unexpectedly giddy fun

Wednesday, 18 December 2019 Read more...

Teenage Dick, Donmar Warehouse review - a fearlessly acted, well-intentioned mess

Friday, 13 December 2019 Read more...

Ordinary Love review - small but (almost) perfectly formed

Thursday, 05 December 2019 Read more...

The Boy Friend, Menier Chocolate Factory review - fun but featherweight

Wednesday, 04 December 2019 Read more...

The Wolf of Wall Street, 5-15 Sun Street review - energetic but to what end?

Friday, 29 November 2019 Read more...

White Christmas, Dominion Theatre review - breezy but bland

Thursday, 28 November 2019 Read more...

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The Gathered Leaves, Park Theatre review - dated script lift...

The Gathered Leaves is set on the tectonic plates of a middle-class family...

As You Like It: A Radical Retelling, Edinburgh International...

There is, let’s be honest, a certain self-congratulatory self-satisfaction among some particularly well-heeled sections of the Edinburgh...

Album: Nova Twins - Parasites and Butterflies

For Nova Twins, the alternative rock/metal duo of Amy Love and Georgia South, the years since 2020 have been a non-stop journey of evolution....

Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex review - sexual identity slips, hu...

Two chimney sweeps sit by a window. The boss (Thorbjørn Harr) recounts a dream meeting with David Bowie, who disconcertingly looks at...

BBC Proms: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mäkelä review - de...

Klaus Mäkelä teased out all the fragility and the sense of impending mortality in Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, revealing a vision that was as...

Hostage, Netflix review - entente not-too-cordiale

Conceived and written by Matt Charman, whose CV...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Beatles - What's The New, Ma...

“What's the New Mary Jane” is a nursery rhyme-like song, one of John Lennon’s most peculiar offerings. It was recorded for late 1968’s double...

Dunedin Consort, Butt / D’Angelo, Muñoz, Edinburgh Internati...

Handel probably wrote his cantata Clori, Tirsi e Fileno in 1707 while he was in the service of the Marquis of Ruspoli in Rome. It tells...

The Maccabees, Barrowland, Glasgow review - indie band retur...

You wait years for a guitar group with brothers to reunite and then two come along at once. The Maccabees return might have attracted far less...