thu 14/08/2025

Matt Wolf

Matt Wolf's picture
Bio
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

Evita, London Palladium review - even more thrilling the second time round

Read more...

A Moon for the Misbegotten, Almeida Theatre review - Michael Shannon sears the night sky

Read more...

Burlesque, Savoy Theatre review - exhaustingly vapid

Read more...

Mrs Warren's Profession, Garrick Theatre review - mother-daughter showdown keeps it in the family

Read more...

The Deep Blue Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - Tamsin Greig honours Terence Rattigan

Read more...

The Brightening Air, Old Vic review - Chekhov jostles Conor McPherson in writer-director's latest

Read more...

Here We Are, National Theatre review - Sondheim's sensational swan song

Read more...

My Master Builder, Wyndham's Theatre review - Ewan McGregor headlines stillborn Ibsen riff

Read more...

Oscars 2025: long day's journey into 'Anora'

Read more...

Richard II, Bridge Theatre review - handsomely mounted, emotionally muted

Read more...

Elektra, Duke of York's Theatre review - Brie Larson's London stage debut is angry but inert

Read more...

Best of 2024: Theatre

Read more...

The Devil Wears Prada, Dominion Theatre review - efficient but rarely inspired

Read more...

Wicked review - overly busy if beautifully sung cliffhanger

Read more...

Barcelona, Duke of York's Theatre review - Lily Collins migrates from France to Spain

Read more...

The Years, Almeida Theatre review - matchless acting quintet makes for a must-see

Read more...

Pages

latest in today

'We are bowled over!' Thank you for your messages... ...
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, RSC, Stratford review - not qui...

I have two guilty secrets about the theatre – okay, two I’m prepared to own up to right here, right now. I quite enjoy some...

Beating Hearts review - kiss kiss, slam slam

Andrew Garfield was 29 when he played the teenage Spiderman and Jennifer Grey was 27 when she took on a decade-younger-than-her character called “...

Album: Emma Smith - Bitter Orange

Emma Smith, one time Puppini Sister, has established herself over the past decade or so as one of the UK’s most compelling jazz singers, now...

BBC Proms: Anoushka Shankar 'Chapters' review - so...

You can't explain stage presence like Anoushka Shankar’s. It just "is". When she steps out in front of a completely packed Royal Albert Hall, and...

Elschenbroich, Grynyuk / Fibonacci Quartet, Edinburgh Intern...

Leonard Elschenbroich and Alexei Grynyuk crafted a fine programme for their EIF recital, centring around Brahms’ relationship with the Schumanns....

Edinburgh Fringe 2025 reviews: The Fit Prince / Undersigned

The Fit Prince (who gets switched on the square in the frosty castle the night before (insert public holiday here)), Pleasance...

Materialists review - a misfiring romcom or an undercooked s...

The Canadian-Korean director Celine Song burst onto the scene with her debut feature, Past Lives, two years ago, a bittersweet...

Album: Marissa Nadler - New Radiations

“I will fly around the world just to forget you” are the opening words of “It Hits Harder,” the first track on New Radiations. The song...

BBC Proms: Akhmetshina, LPO, Gardner review - liquid luxurie...

Water surged through this Prom from first spray to last drop....