1,485 stories by "Matt Wolf"
"Twelfth Night'' is a success in London, with Mark Rylance set to make waves again in the role of Olivia, while "The Magistrate'' leaves some room for improvement.
Heather Headley has blazed a theatrical trail for herself on the strength of two Broadway shows (The Lion King and Aida, winning a Tony in 2000 for the latter) and via a Grammy-winning recor…
An expert cast delivers on their promise in Aleksei Arbuzov's triangular Russian drama from 1965 of the same name, which offers up war and peace and the shifting tides of love - so much of t…
Stephen Tompkinson is a familiar name on screens both large and small, having starred in series like Wild At Heart and DCI Banks and in films such as Brassed Off. The 47-year-old Englishman …
Matt Wolf reviews the plays "People," "NSFW" and "Daddy Long Legs," currently showing in London.
Haley Flaherty has appeared in a range of musicals in and outside London, from Chicago and Mamma Mia! to Love Never Dies, but the Scottish actress shines especially brightly as Miss Honey in…
Move over, "Singin' in the Rain." Here comes "The Bodyguard" and "Viva Forever!" Not to mention "The Book of Mormon."
Megan McGinnis has spent a large chunk of the past few years touring around America in Daddy Long Legs, and now the John Caird/Paul Gordon musical two-hander is touching down at London&…
Three new plays shake up the Off-West End and put it at center-stage.
The current London theater season offers a chance to see some mighty actors up close. Very close.
Still waters run deep, but that truism barely hints at the quiet power of The River, the eagerly awaited new play from Jez Butterworth (writer) and Ian Rickson (director) whose col…
Versatile London stage star Lloyd Owen is about to grab the spotlight as he steps into the role made famous by Kevin Costner in the eagerly awaited musical adaptation of The Bodyguard. Owen …
How hopelessly bourgeois, U.K. theater-makers seem to be saying these days, to be packed into rows of seats when we can be roaming about a particular dwelling for ourselves: Let the environm…
If all of Loserville were as arresting and witty as its design, the West End would finally have what it hasn't offered playgoers in years: a buoyant British musical not reliant on a celebrat…
Scarlett Strallen has been spending the better part of a year at London’s Palace Theatre, twirling an umbrella and sending her lilting soprano soaring into the hearts of audiences in S…
Fiona Shaw brings a sensual splendor to the revival of Howard Barker's onetime radio play "Scenes From an Execution," at the National Theatre's Lyttelton auditorium in London.
Spain's Golden Age turns unaccountably to dross in Damned by Despair, the Tirso de Molina play that is a good half-hour shorter than the running time given in the programme but won't (in thi…
Idina Menzel needs no introduction to theater fans, who revere her Tony-winning performance as Elphaba in Wicked, as well as her recurring TV role as Lea Michele's birth mother, Shelby C…
"All this hatred is exhausting," or so remarks Will Young's ceaselessly grimace-prone Emcee in Cabaret in a comment that encapsulates the evening as a whole. Returning to a show he directed …
The British stage as male preserve now seems a thing of the past.
Tribute shows don’t get more robust and all-embracing than Let It Be, the audience-rousing canter through the Beatles’ catalog of hits that is newly opened at London’s Prin…
From "Hedda Gabler" to an Ayckbourn comedy to a new Caryl Churchill play, London theater offers a mishmash of emotions.
Michelle Ryan spent many years on the popular British TV show EastEnders and crossed the Atlantic to take on the title role in the short-lived 2007 reboot of The Bionic Woman. Now, the 28-ye…
Since beginning his career more than three decades ago with the Royal Shakespeare Company (including a Tony-winning performance in the title role of The Life and Adventure of Nicholas Nickle…
Bertie Carvel in a new version of Tirso de Molina's "Damned by Despair," Michael Gambon and Eileen Atkins in Beckett's "All That Fall" and Jez Butterworth's new play, "The River," are among …
