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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

Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation review - genius dogged by disappointment

Saturday, 01 May 2021 Read more...

Oscars 2021: Sluggish, yes, but some surprises too

Monday, 26 April 2021 Read more...

Sequin in a Blue Room review - soullessness and sex in Sydney

Saturday, 10 April 2021 Read more...

Six Minutes to Midnight review - Judi Dench retains her dignity

Friday, 26 March 2021 Read more...

Moxie review - likeable if confused high school comedy

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 Read more...

To Olivia review - Keeley Hawes rises above brainless biopic

Friday, 19 February 2021 Read more...

Penguin Bloom, Netflix review - stirringly acted if sentimental

Friday, 29 January 2021 Read more...

Blithe Spirit review - cloth-eared Coward

Friday, 15 January 2021 Read more...

Best of 2020: Theatre

Sunday, 27 December 2020 Read more...

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic online review - the bells have it once again

Tuesday, 22 December 2020 Read more...

A Christmas Carol, Dominion Theatre review - brash and bustling and snowy, too

Tuesday, 15 December 2020 Read more...

I'm Your Woman review - what's happening, indeed?

Saturday, 12 December 2020 Read more...

The Dumb Waiter, Hampstead Theatre review - menace without a hint of mirth

Thursday, 10 December 2020 Read more...

The Prom review - merry Meryl in middling musical

Wednesday, 09 December 2020 Read more...

GHBoy, Charing Cross Theatre review - drugs and sex but no rock 'n' roll

Tuesday, 08 December 2020 Read more...

Uncle Frank review - well-acted but painfully contrived

Saturday, 28 November 2020 Read more...

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The Producers, Garrick Theatre review - Ve haf vays of makin...

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

Appl, Levickis, Wigmore Hall review - fun to the fore in cab...

Concerts at the Wigmore Hall offer many types of pleasure, but not...

Album: The Divine Comedy - Rainy Sunday Afternoon

Neil Hannon has been recording and touring as the Divine Comedy since 1989 and has tried a fair few flavours along the way, from chamber pop to...

Lammermuir Festival 2025, Part 2 review - from the soaringly...

My colleague Boyd Tonkin visited the Lammermuir Festival for the first time this year. His eyes and ears have been opened to its treasures, but...

Frances Wilson: Electric Spark - The Enigma of Muriel Spark...

How do you tell the story of a person’s mind? In the preface to Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark, published this year by...

Blu-ray: The Sons of Great Bear

Westerns had long been popular with German cinema audiences, some of the most successful being early 1960s West German adaptations of novels by...

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review - comedy rock band f...

That difficult second documentary – or if you will, “rockumentary” – seems to have been especially challenging for...

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...