1,494 stories by "Matt Wolf"
A handpicked guide for visitors (and residents), including classic drama, musicals, new plays and shows for children.
Billy Porter shifts from starring on the West End in Cabaret to directing this politically charged two-hander, starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln
A Disney musical based on the 1997 animated movie feels as though its creators wanted to get to the finish line and move on.
A look at the Tony roster's potential for a London transfer
Summer is approaching, and with it the return to the stage of a Disney demi-God, in a notably busy month that includes the local premiere of a vaunted Tony winner and a commercial transfer f…
Shaw's once-shocking play pairs Imelda Staunton with her real-life daughter, Bessie Carter
How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Co…
Georgina Onuorah follows on from Tony winner Alex Newell in riotously entertaining London outing of the tangy, twangy C&W show, directed as on Broadway by Jack O'Brien
The Irishman's first new play in over a decade is engaging but overstuffed
It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to B…
The 1952 classic lives to see another day in notably name-heavy revival
The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago estab…
Emily Ling Williams' direction finds humour and levity in what could devolve into a mere history lesson, and Tommy Sim'aan's sterling solo performance is a marvel
The late composer bids farewell with a show made-to-order for now
You don't have to be greeting the modern day with a smile unsupported by events in the wider world to have a field day at H…
Tim Crouch's maverick two-hander returns, with Jessie Buckley kicking off the sequence of guests
John Lithgow returns in even more devastating form in Giant, ramped up for the West End by a scorching London theatre debut from Aya Cash, replacing Romola Garai
Stephen Sondheim's final musical reaches the National, a SIX queen flirts with the supernatural and the corn is as high as an elephant's eye outdoors at Regent's Park. These are just a few o…
Starry new writing premiere struggles to connect
It's both brave and bracing to welcome new voices to the West End, but sometimes one wonders if such exposure necessarily works to the benef…
Justina Kehinde plays a dying woman with an unusual request in Neil LaBute's circular, repetitive, often contrived play, now in its UK premiere
Nikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).
A view from inside the Albert Hall at a ceremony at which "Benjamin Button"'s John Dagleish brought the audience to tears and Simon Lipkin's Fagin and "Fiddler"'s bottle dance prompted cheers
Laura Whitmore and Bryan Dick in John Donnelly play directed by Blanche McIntyre, fresh on the heels of The Invention of Love at the same address
There's a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the London …
James Daly repeats his star turn as a vampy, bare-chested Count Dracula in London premiere of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's Off Broadway romp; Charlie Stemp, from Crazy for You, co-star…
Hit French play comes to London, translated by Jeremy Sams and with a scene-stealing supporting performance from onetime Olivier winner, Nigel Harman (Shrek): Michael Fox and Jennifer Kirby …
Julia McDermott is a solo sensation in her partner Brian Watkins's scorching solo play set amidst a world on the cusp of meltdown
Clueless sings on the London stage, Cate Blanchett spreads her wings, and the producer of Fleabag is back for an encore - all that and James Graham not once but twice.
Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon
