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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

Home Again review - Reese Witherspoon romcom is divorced from reality

Friday, 29 September 2017 Read more...

Borg/McEnroe review - Wimbledon face-off is entertaining if incomplete

Thursday, 21 September 2017 Read more...

Victoria and Abdul review - Judi Dench's Queen Victoria retread battles creaky script

Friday, 15 September 2017 Read more...

Peter Hall: A Reminiscence

Tuesday, 12 September 2017 Read more...

Una review - 'Blackbird' adaptation loses its stage intensity

Friday, 01 September 2017 Read more...

h.Club 100 Awards: Theatre and Performance - is this a new golden age for the stage?

Tuesday, 08 August 2017 Read more...

Maudie review - intriguing and irritating in turn

Friday, 04 August 2017 Read more...

Road, Royal Court review - poetry amidst the pain

Monday, 31 July 2017 Read more...

Mosquitoes, National Theatre review - Olivias Colman and Williams dazzle amid dramatic excess

Thursday, 27 July 2017 Read more...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Apollo Theatre review - Sienna Miller lets rip

Tuesday, 25 July 2017 Read more...

Dessert, Southwark Playhouse review - undercooked and overwrought

Wednesday, 19 July 2017 Read more...

The Beguiled review - silly but seriously well-made

Friday, 14 July 2017 Read more...

The Last Word film review - Shirley MacLaine's spit and vinegar remain intact

Friday, 07 July 2017 Read more...

Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill, Wyndham's Theatre review – searing stuff

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 Read more...

Gloria, Hampstead Theatre review – pretty glorious

Friday, 23 June 2017 Read more...

Hampstead review - Diane Keaton deserves better and so does London

Thursday, 22 June 2017 Read more...

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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...