1,485 stories by "Matt Wolf"
Two absurdist comedies, "Birthday'' and "The Physicists," challenge London audiences to keep pace.
Jodie Prenger came to fame via the British reality TV show I’d Do Anything, securing the role of Nancy in Cameron Mackintosh's recent West End revival of Oliver! and going on to st…
The Taming of the Shrew celebrates its own rumbustious, raucous (mis)behaviour, so why shouldn't Shakespeare's comedy be granted a production that follows suit? From an opening gambit i…
It’s been almost 20 years since Anna Chancellor shot to attention as Henrietta (a.k.a. “Duckface”) in the hit film comedy Four Weddings and a Funeral. Since then, the raven…
A Shakespeare trilogy and a "Great Gatsby" marathon figure in the London stage lineup.
A quadruple threat who can sing, dance, act and do a spot-on American accent, 27-year-old Summer Strallen has inherited Ginger Rogers’ screen role in the London stage premiere of the 1…
It’s the perfect summer for the West End debut of Chariots of Fire, Mike Bartlett’s stage adaptation of the 1981 Oscar-winning film about two British runners competing in the 192…
If it's possible for a piece of writing to remain significant, even important, without necessarily being great, that would describe the status of Harvey Fierstein's epoch-defining Torch Song…
The young director, Polly Findlay, succeeds by giving the Greek tragedy by Sophocles a contemporary update in London.
James Corden (One Man, Two Guvnors) made it past the finish line, Tracie Bennett (End of the Rainbow) did not, and the art-house musical Once trumped Disney's latest Broadway entry, Newsies,…
Sophie Evans has been skipping down the Yellow Brick Road as Dorothy in the West End stage adaptation of The Wizard of Oz since February, having assumed the role from original star Danielle …
Productions at the life-changing Globe to Globe sequence of international takes on the Bard have had numerous points of origin, from shows conceived directly for the event to reprises of sta…
Now here's a surprise. In English, Henry VIII gets dismissed as a Shakespearean dud (well, let's apportion the blame as well to the play's generally acknowledged co-author, John Fletcher), i…
Raza Jaffrey played a political wheeler-dealer on TV’s Smash, but the Anglo-Asian star came to the series as a stage vet of the London productions of Mamma Mia! and Bombay Dreams,…
Protesters assail Israeli theater troupe's performance of "Merchant of Venice" at the Globe.
The battle of the sexes took on a bright and breezy tone in Pakistan's contribution to the Globe's ongoing Bardathon, the Theatre Wallay-Kashf's rumbustious production of The Taming of the S…
It's both easy and fashionable to render ironic, or scoff at, the title of All's Well That Ends Well. This is the Shakespeare "comedy" in which the rabidly obsessed Helena finally ensnares h…
It’s a busy time for rising London star Tom Mison: He plays Emily Blunt’s missing-in-action boyfriend in the current film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and will be seen on TV with …
Clothes are shed, sensibilities skewered, and political correctness defiantly ignored in this latest London revival of Joe Orton's wonderful play (the fourth, for what it's worth, in the cap…
Since winning back-to-back Tony nominations in 2007 and 2008 for A Moon for the Misbegotten and The Homecoming, Eve Best has hit the big-time on American TV alongside Edie Falco in Showtime&…
Prismatic brilliance sweeps the London stage, from Laurie Metcalf in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey," to Summer Strallen in "Top Hat" and Anna Chancellor in a Rattigan-Hare double-bill.
Michael Ball turns 50 on June 27, but the hugely popular British star has been the one gifting playgoers of late by giving the performance of his career in the West End revival of Sweeney To…
An Oliver Award-winning play makes its way to New York from London, with its considered and blunt title intact.
Laurie Metcalf may be best known for her multiple Emmy-winning performance as Jackie on TV’s Roseanne, but she is above all a creature of the stage, as befits a longtime member of Chic…
A triptych of plays woven by Robert Holman back in the '80s involve encounters among strangers in wartime.
