Matt Wolf
Bio
Matt is London theatre critic of The International New York Times (formerly The International Herald Tribune) and London correspondent for the broadway.com website; he spent 21 years as London arts and theatre critic for the Associated Press and over 13 years as Variety's UK drama critic. He has been on the judging panel of the Evening Standard Theatre Awards since 2009.
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Lie Low, Royal Court review - short sharp sliver of pain
Faye is okay. Or, at least she says she’s okay. But is she really? And, if she really is, like really okay, why is she seeking help for her...
theartsdesk Q&A: Matthew Modine on 'Hard Miles...
Maybe California-born Matthew Modine caught the movie bug courtesy of his father Mark, who used to manage drive-in theatres, but after bagging his...
Album: Becky Hill - Believe Me Now?
There’s a whole generation of singers who’ve risen to considerable fame on the back of the return of home-grown commercial dance music to the...
Boys from the Blackstuff, National Theatre review - a lyrica...
Prolific playwright James Graham was born in 1982, the year Alan Bleasdale's...
Murrihy, Martineau, Wigmore Hall review - poise, transformat...
Peerless among the constellation of Irish singers making waves around the world, mezzo Paula Murrihy first dazzled London as Ascanio in Terry...
Tokyo Vice, Series 2, BBC iPlayer review - an exciting ride...
It’s entirely fitting that Jake Adelstein should have a poster for All the President’s Men on the wall of his Tokyo apartment, since it...
First Person: LIFT artistic director Kris Nelson on deliveri...
LIFT 2024 is nearly here. It’s a festival that will take you on deep and personal journeys. We’ve got shows that will catch your...
Beth Gibbons, Salle Pleyel, Paris review - a triumph of inti...
Beth Gibbons, once the voice of Portishead, and later a wonderful solo singer and songwriter, hasn’t been on stage for a long while. She makes the...
Album: Richard Hawley - In This City They Call You Love
Hot on the heels of his Olivier Award-winning musical Standing at the Sky's Edge, comes In This City They Call You Love, ...
Tosca, Opera Holland Park review - passion and populism
Set in a tensely polarised Roman neighbourhood, with an election in the offing and radicals scrapping with reactionaries under poster-plastered...