1,485 stories by "Matt Wolf"
The director Richard Eyre's continuing inquiry into the plays of Henrik Ibsen reaches a new peak with "Little Eyolf."
Johnny Flynn juggles two lives—one as the singer-songwriter who has toured America with his folk-rock band Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit, the other as the fast-rising actor who has…
The great Caryl Churchill careers down a blind alley in Here We Go, and the results aren't pretty, especially within the cavernous confines of the National Theatre's Lyttelton " this wr…
A lot of people are going to be enraged, frustrated, or confused by Evening at The Talk House, and in the authorial world of Wallace Shawn, wasn't it ever thus? This is the playwright who ga…
The holidays are fast approaching, bringing with them a glut of openings across the spectrum, from a seasonal entertainment with an Oscar winner in the lead to new sightings of iconic titles…
Kenneth Branagh occupies center stage for much of "The Winter's Tale," the Shakespeare play with which he inaugurates the company that bears his name.
Natalie Dew plays Jess Bhamra, the football-loving London Sikh in the West End musical Bend It Like Beckham at the Phoenix Theatre, a career-making performance that has brought the actress a…
It's not every day that you have a West End musicals leading man who has also played Hamlet, Richards II and III, and Prospero in The Tempest, but the RSC veteran Jonathan Slinger comes …
Sunny Afternoon won this year’s Olivier Award for Best Musical, and Danny Horn has stepped into the demanding leading role of Kinks frontman Ray Davies at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Th…
The cast captivates in a production of Pinter that stands out against today s Broadway fare.
Onstage in London, big casts and ambitions reign in "Husbands & Sons" and "Treasure," while "Ticking" is small but volatile.
For much of a grimly deliberate evening, Knightley appears shoulders hunched, indrawn, her eyes darting about as if in search of escape.
The nights are drawing in, so all the better reason to feast on a month that sees a Broadway classic (the acclaimed revival of Gypsy) enter its final weeks even as another Broadway entry (El…
"French Without Tears" and "The Father" bring Gallic flair to Britain.
Ben Forster played Magaldi in the most recent West End revival of Evita and is poised to take over as the Phantom in London in the New Year, but through the holiday season he can be found le…
Kenneth Cranham has performed twice on Broadway—in Loot in 1968 and then again in 1994 in An Inspector Calls, for which he garnered a Tony nomination. But the veteran actor is get…
Saucy goings-on, illicit confessions and time-honored tragedy in two London productions.
Canadian singer-songwriter Kyle Riabko earned raves off-Broadway in 2013 and then at the Menier Chocolate Factory this past summer with What’s It All About?, his smart, hip reimagining…
London theater column for The New York Times
"Hangmen" reminds one of the unmistakable terrain marked out by a playwright who cares not one whit for niceties and political correctness.
Lia Williams was nominated for a 1997 Tony for her performance in the original Broadway production of Skylight, since which time the gifted actress’s stage appearances have included th…
Lara Pulver was nominated for a 2008 Olivier Award for her performance opposite Bertie Carvel in director Rob Ashford’s London production of Parade and is back in town to play Louise&m…
Nicole Kidman has returned to the West End 17 years after causing an innuendo-laden sensation in The Blue Room, the David Hare play that promptly transferred from the Donmar to Broadway, whe…
Edward Bennett made headlines in 2008 when he replaced an ailing David Tennant in the Royal Shakespeare Company production of Hamlet. Since then, the actor has gone from further work in Shak…
Theater-as-installation in "Absent"; Terence Rattigan's "Flare Path" on tour; a quiet star in "Measure for Measure."
