1,485 stories by "Matt Wolf"
'Three Sisters' eliminates the basics with mixed results, while 'The Judas Kiss' tries it again after failing 14 years ago.
Rob Ashford divides his time between Broadway and London, with Tony and Olivier nods in abundance for his flourishing trans-Atlantic career, and a 2002 Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie, the…
Rob Ashford divides his time between Broadway and London, with Tony and Olivier nods in abundance for his flourishing trans-Atlantic career, and a 2002 Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie, the…
Rob Ashford occupies a unique perch in the Anglo-American theatre. Florida-born, raised in West Virginia and a product of Broadway, where he began as a dancer in shows including Parade, Vict…
Who says you can't go home again? American actor-singer Anthony Rapp does that, and then some, with his solo show Without You, in which one of the original leads of the Broadway musical…
A curtain rises at the start of Joe Wright's thrilling film version of Anna Karenina only for the finish several hours later to be accompanied in time-honoured fashion by the words "the end"…
Carley Stenson has starred in two West End musicals, both based on hugely successful Hollywood films. The 29-year-old actress was the third Elle Woods in the Olivier Award-winning London run…
Shakespeare's Globe Theater hits its mark with a new "Taming of the Shrew," while the BBC Proms honor a selection of old musicals.
Emi Wokoma has burst into the front ranks of London leading ladies with her performance as Tina Turner in the jukebox musical Soul Sister, which has transferred for a commercial run to the S…
An erstwhile Broadway flop provides late-summer theatrical fascination in the form of Vieux Carré, the self-evidently flawed Tennessee Williams play from 1977 that nonetheless is worth…
Jon Boydon is now in his third year playing tough guy Tommy DeVito in the Olivier Award-winning West End production of Jersey Boys. A veteran of We Will Rock You, Boydon, soon to be 36, is n…
British theater has hit a rough patch as productions of ''Carousel,'' ''The Great Gatsby'' and "Soho Cinders'' bypass the spirit of the original works.
Accolades are due again for the tiny Finborough Theatre, whose production of JB Priestley's all-but-unknown Cornelius constitutes the most exciting reclamation from the English theatrical ca…
The ever-libidinous Guy (Jason Durr) is "as subtle as a fire engine" when it comes to sex, or so we're told during the course of Volcano, and it's difficult not to feel that this belated Noe…
British TV star Jason Durr (Heartbeat) is spending the summer seducing women on a Caribbean island in the West End premiere of Volcano, a previously unknown Noel Coward play that sheds light…
Sierra Boggess is the first to admit that she has had an, um, interesting year. Announced as the star of Rebecca opposite her real-life fiancé Tam Mutu, Boggess jumped to Prince of Br…
The triumphalist spirit of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" tallies with the mood of this summer's athletic aspirations.
Jack Lowden is making his West End debut as Olympic runner and missionary Eric Liddell in Chariots of Fire, the 1981 Oscar winner that has been adapted into a play by Mike Bartlett. Tha…
Philadelphia, Here I Come! ends in its Donmar invocation with the roar of a plane taking off, which only amplifies one's sense that the show has taken some while to take wing. Markedly bette…
Oskar Eustis, Stephen Sondheim and Donna Murphy celebrate the special atmosphere that is Central Park's Delacorte Theater, now home to a new production of Into the Woods.
Two of Britain's finest actors take charge of two of Shakespeare's toughest roles.
It’s not every day that a West End show stars an Olympic gold medalist—and skating champ Robin Cousins’ 1980 medallion is actually on display in a Tiffany box in the foyer …
"A Doll's House'' proves its issues of money and women's rights still resonate, while ''Ten Billion'' offers chills in its warnings about modern living.
Neil McDermott has stepped (or perhaps one should say knelt down) into the role of the physically challenged, campily malevolent Lord Farquaad in the hit London production of Shrek the Music…
Henry Lloyd-Hughes brings a ready swagger and insolence to the part of Dimitri, the rude, moneyed Greek boy in Posh, Laura Wade’s hit West End play about an assemblage of posh Oxford u…
