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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 Bay at Nice, Menier Chocolate Factory review - David Hare talkfest takes intermittent wing

Wednesday, 20 March 2019 Read more...

Admissions, Trafalgar Studios review - topical and whiplash-smart

Wednesday, 13 March 2019 Read more...

Waitress, Adelphi Theatre review - sweet if sometimes silly musical arrives from Broadway

Friday, 08 March 2019 Read more...

Oscars 2019: Olivia Colman crowned queen of Hollywood

Monday, 25 February 2019 Read more...

Old Boys review - short but not especially sweet

Saturday, 23 February 2019 Read more...

Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, Young Vic review - shards of power amidst much that is overwrought

Friday, 22 February 2019 Read more...

Shipwreck, Almeida Theatre review - Trump-inflected fantasia mixes the polemical and the poetic

Thursday, 21 February 2019 Read more...

Come From Away, Phoenix Theatre review - a necessary corrective to our traumatic times

Tuesday, 19 February 2019 Read more...

9 to 5 the Musical review - Dolly Parton's film returns as retooled version of a Broadway flop

Monday, 18 February 2019 Read more...

A Private War review - Rosamund Pike burns with passion in well-meaning biopic

Saturday, 16 February 2019 Read more...

All About Eve, Noel Coward Theatre review - less a bumpy night than an erratically arresting one

Thursday, 14 February 2019 Read more...

All Is True review - all's well doesn't end well in limp Shakespeare biopic

Saturday, 09 February 2019 Read more...

Vice review - Christian Bale on surging and satiric form

Friday, 25 January 2019 Read more...

Beautiful Boy review - well-acted but a slog

Friday, 18 January 2019 Read more...

Coming Clean, Trafalgar Studios review - Kevin Elyot play has lost the pathos if not the plot

Tuesday, 15 January 2019 Read more...

Pinters Five and Six, Harold Pinter Theatre review - superlatively acted esoterica

Tuesday, 08 January 2019 Read more...

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The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

Appl, Levickis, Wigmore Hall review - fun to the fore in cab...

Concerts at the Wigmore Hall offer many types of pleasure, but not...

Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...