1,488 stories by "Matt Wolf"
From big, bold musicals to solo shows, London theatre once again landed on multiple fronts, led by Jamie Lloyd's mind-bending revival of Evita and the small-scale wow of Brian Watkins' Weath…
Some had wondered how the show about Abraham Lincoln's wife would fare after its creator left the Broadway cast. But mirth is abundant as it opens on the West End.
Bel Powley is in bruising form as Nigel Lindsay's outspoken daughter in Sam Grabiner's messy but always-interesting play, directed by James Macdonald
Felicity Kendal shifts roles in this splendid 30th-anniversary production of a minor Top Stoppard play, here delivered with feeling and empathy by the director Jonathan Kent and a genuine fi…
Patrick Heusinger makes a ripped West End debut in this stage iteration of the hugely popular film franchise, here directed by Punchdrunk's Felix Barrett and co-starring Melissa James ("Moul…
The protean Kathryn Hunter fills in brilliantly for an indisposed David Threlfall in the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 2011 Broadway play about the ravages of war, directed by the ever…
2022 co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is back for a longer run of a work inspired by the Gus van Sant film of the same name about onetime Nir…
Janie Dee dazzles afresh in this centenary revival of Noel Coward's fragile if sexually audacious 1925 comedy, last seen in London a quarter-century ago
An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation
The festive season is fast approaching, and with it comes the usual cavalcade of openings keen to get in before the holidays proper: just think of the numerous prospects for tickets as prese…
Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"
Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror
Ivo van Hove returns to form with his blistering revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 play, here starring a pitch-perfect Bryan Cranston and Paapa Essiedu as father and son
Grace Galloway and Damon Gould are amongst the terrific cast in the European premiere of this quirky, sweet Off Broadway hit, seen originally in Canada; Lizzie Gee directs and choreographs.
The openings are coming thick and fast throughout November, coupling adventurous new writing with high-profile, star-packed revivals from much-laureled directors. The Hunger Games finally re…
Christine Rice gives a tremendous performance as Sister Helen Prejean in the ENO premiere of Jake Heggie's scorching opera
Alan Hollinghurst novel is cunningly filleted, very finely acted
Alan Hollinghurst's 2004 novel The Line of Beauty finds a distinct beauty all its own in this long-awaited Almeida Theatr…
Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play makes a shimmeringly powerful London debut
I came late to the Old Vic's shimmering production of Mary Page Marlowe, Tracy Letts's Off Broadway play from 2018…
Nick Payne's new play is amongst his best
Change, we're often told, is the engine of drama: people end up somewhere markedly different from where they began. So the first thing to be said a…
Jennifer Westfeldt makes her London stage debut alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman in the UK bow of Richard Greenberg's 2013 Broadway hit, with sterling support from Alexander Marks, marking his pr…
Owen Horsley makes his Globe debut with a patchy version of Shakespeare's take-no-prisoner satire, here starring Kasper Hilton-Hille as Troilus, with Samantha Spiro as a female Pandarus
October is chock-a-block, as the Brits like to say, with theatrical activity. Tracy Letts' Mary Page Marlowe reaches the Old Vic Theatre with Susan Sarandon heading the cast, and Rachel Zegl…
Tamzin Outhwaite impresses once again as Kath in Nadia Fall's sterling revival of Joe Orton's breakout play; hip-hop star Jordan Stephens plays Sloane.
A game John Hodgkinson has replaced Simon Russell Beale in this transfer from Stratford of the RSC version of Shakespeare's abiding, cruelly timely gorefest
Simon Stone refashions Ibsen in his own high-octane image
Like the lighting that crackles now and again to indicate an abrupt change of scene or mood, Simon Stone's version of The Lady from…
