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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

A Christmas Carol, The Old Vic review - older, wiser, and yet more moving

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The Witches, National Theatre review - fun and lively but where's the heart?

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Backstairs Billy, Duke of York's Theatre review - starry and gently subversive, too

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Crazy For You, Gillian Lynne Theatre review - high-kicking heaven

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Dear England, National Theatre review - filtering the national narrative through sport

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Aspects of Love, Lyric Theatre review - not much has actually changed

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Beau is Afraid review - life's ordeals in lengthy detail

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The Motive and the Cue, National Theatre review - theatrical titans face off

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Dancing at Lughnasa, National Theatre review - largely ravishing Brian Friel revival

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Private Lives, Donmar Warehouse review - Coward revival cuts to the quick

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Allelujah review - Alan Bennett put through the blender

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Oscars 2023 - the favourite lives up to its title

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Shirley Valentine, Duke of York's Theatre review - Sheridan Smith slays it

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Best of 2022: Theatre

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Best of Enemies, Noel Coward Theatre review - opposites attract, sort of

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Matilda the Musical review - a dizzying, smartly subversive delight

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Monica review - sombre American drama

There’s a rich seam of folk stories about changelings, infants snatched from home and replaced with a substitute child, to the horror and...

Album: Cher - Christmas

I honestly never thought I'd add a Cher song to my painstakingly curated ...

Natalie Dessay, Philippe Cassard, Milton Court review - flas...

It could have been a winner: a charismatic star soprano of great emotional and interpretative intelligence, a top pianist given a little space to...

Album: Gregory Porter - Christmas Wish

The cat in the hat with the mellifluous voice delivers his Christmas Wish for the festive season, his first Christmas album, and it...

Paul Lewis, Wigmore Hall review - Schubert sonatas revisited...

A decade has passed since Paul Lewis concluded an endeavour of a kind never previously undertaken: to perform, over two and a half years and...

The Homecoming, Young Vic Theatre review - Pinter's dis...

As the audience enters, thick mist envelopes the thrust stage and jazz music fills the...

Blu-ray: Blackhat

The Boxing Day release of Michael Mann’s first feature in eight years, Ferrari, finally follows up Blackhat, a Chris Hemsworth-...

Kin, BBC One review - in Dublin's not-so-fair city

Folklore tends to depict Dublin as a convivial and picturesque city, with a bar on every corner full of revellers on wild stag weekends, but that’...

Voces8 Foundation Choir and Orchestra, Smith, Voces8 Centre...

There’s a game called Whamageddon, where people see how deep into December they can go without hearing “Last Christmas”. I’m like that, but with...