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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

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...

Surge review - jittery and joyless

Saturday, 29 May 2021 Read more...

Trying, Apple TV+ review - the road to parenthood takes a fresh path

Friday, 21 May 2021 Read more...

Rare Beasts review - Billie Piper as triple threat

Thursday, 20 May 2021 Read more...

The Pursuit of Love, BBC One review - extravagantly entertaining

Monday, 10 May 2021 Read more...

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Unexpectedly, there’s a sly reference to James Joyce’s Ulysses interpolated into Act One (in case we hadn’t caught the not...

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Tosca, Welsh National Opera review - a great company reduced...

So it’s come to this: WNO’s autumn season reduced to two operas, a Tosca borrowed from Opera North and a revival of their own Candide...

Not Your Superwoman, Bush Theatre review - powerful tribute...

The Bush is likely to continue its fine recent run of hit plays, with this funny, poignant, culturally authentic and beautifully acted two-hander...

Music Reissues Weekly: Robyn - Robyn 20th-Anniversary Editio...

Sometimes, record labels don’t like what those on their roster have recorded. Such was the case with BMG Sweden and Robin Carlsson who, as Robyn,...