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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.

Articles By Matt Wolf

The Humans review - staring headlong into the abyss

Monday, 10 January 2022 Read more...

Best of 2021: Theatre

Thursday, 30 December 2021 Read more...

Stephen Sondheim in memoriam - he gave us more to see

Tuesday, 30 November 2021 Read more...

Get Up, Stand Up!, Lyric Theatre review - knockout performance, undercooked book

Friday, 22 October 2021 Read more...

White Noise, Bridge Theatre review - provocative if not always plausible

Friday, 15 October 2021 Read more...

Camp Siegfried, Old Vic review - the banality of evil, brilliantly served up

Tuesday, 21 September 2021 Read more...

Carousel, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre review - brave rewrite doesn't land

Tuesday, 10 August 2021 Read more...

Anything Goes, Barbican review - an explosion of joy

Friday, 06 August 2021 Read more...

Limbo review - quiet but voluble

Saturday, 31 July 2021 Read more...

Bagdad Café, Old Vic review - sweet but scattershot

Friday, 30 July 2021 Read more...

Off the Rails review - go for the scenery, not the script

Saturday, 24 July 2021 Read more...

French Exit review - Michelle Pfeiffer faces mortality

Sunday, 04 July 2021 Read more...

J'Ouvert, Harold Pinter Theatre review - formless yet fabulous

Tuesday, 29 June 2021 Read more...

Under Milk Wood, National Theatre review - Michael Sheen at his most magnetic

Thursday, 24 June 2021 Read more...

In the Heights review - to life, Lin-Manuel Miranda-style

Friday, 18 June 2021 Read more...

Anne Boleyn, Channel 5 review - whispery and weepy

Friday, 04 June 2021 Read more...

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