Matt Wolf

Theatre Critic at The New York Times

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Which Tony Award-winning shows might come to London?

2 weeks ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Matt Wolf

The Tony Awards don’t just make or break Broadway shows; the New York theatre’s annual celebration often has implications for London too. By way of proof, look no further than the currently previewing West End play Stereophonic, which won last year’s Tony for Best Play and has crossed the pond in the Tony-winning director Daniel Aukin’s production, albeit with some changes in cast.
June on the London Stage: Stereophonic, Fiddler on the Roof and Hercules Kick Off Summer in the West End

3 weeks ago | broadway.com | Matt Wolf

Summer is approaching, and with it the return to the stage of a Disney demi-God, in a notably busy month that includes the local premiere of a vaunted Tony winner and a commercial transfer for a notably fine Fiddler, as befits its director, Jordan Fein. For more on these shows, and others, read on.
El mismísimo Pee-wee

4 weeks ago | decine21.com | Matt Wolf

Criado en una familia judía, Paul Reubens desarrolló un temprano amor por el humor gracias a la televisión y al circo. Tras mudarse a Los Ángeles, se une a la compañía teatral The Groundlings, donde comienza a dar forma a su alter ego, Pee-wee Herman, mezcla de payaso de vodevil y niño adulto con acento californiano.
My Pee-wee Herman Documentary Nearly Broke Me

1 month ago | vulture.com | Matt Wolf

Paul Reubens and Matt Wolf When I approach someone to make a documentary about them, I write a love letter. In the 20 years I’ve been making films, I’ve written countless ones — to Siegfried & Roy, to Marianne Williamson, to soap-opera stars and reclusive musicians. Sometimes I’m appealing to their vanity, sometimes their sense that they’ve been wronged. Always, I end my letters with the same sentence: “Trust shouldn’t be expected.
Pee-wee and Me | Flipboard

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Matt Wolf

1 day agoThese Stars Appeared on ‘Pee-Wee’s Playhouse’ Before They Were FamousThe new documentary 'Pee-wee as Himself' shows several stars appeared on 'Pee-wee's Playhouse' before they went on to fame. Those who tune into the …2 days ago‘Pee-Wee As Himself’ Director Had No Idea Paul Reubens Was Dying"I was scheduled to do a final interview with him the week after Paul Reubens passed away, and we had a conversation a week before he died.
Mrs. Warren's Profession, Garrck Theatre review - mother-daughter showdown keeps it in the family

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Matt Wolf

How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Cooke has, bringing this prolix writer's 1893 play in under the two-hour mark, no interval. And you can introduce a non-speaking ensemble of women in period bloomers and the like as a silent commentary on the depredations indicated in the text.
Mrs. Warren's Profession, Garrick Theatre review - mother-daughter showdown keeps it in the family

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Matt Wolf

How do you make Bernard Shaw sear the stage anew? You can trim the text, as the director Dominic Cooke has, bringing this prolix writer's 1893 play in under the two-hour mark, no interval. And you can introduce a non-speaking ensemble of women in period bloomers and the like as a silent commentary on the depredations indicated in the text.
'Shucked' review — this riotously funny country-and-western musical is a huskily entertaining joy | London Theatre

1 month ago | londontheatre.co.uk | Matt Wolf

You’d have to be the most rabid carnivore imaginable not to have a good time at Shucked, the corn-intensive country-and-western musical that charmed Broadway two years ago. Nominated for nine Tony Awards, the show, originally touted locally as a West End entry under the auspices of Cameron Mackintosh, has instead crossed the Atlantic to inaugurate Drew McOnie’s tenure as the incoming artistic director of Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre.
The Deep Blue Sea, Theatre Royal Haymarket review - Tamsin Greig honours Terence Rattigan

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Matt Wolf

The water proves newly inviting in The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Rattigan's mournful 1952 play that some while ago established its status as an English classic. Lindsay Posner's production, first seen in Bath with one major change of cast since then, takes its time, and leading lady Tamsin Greig often speaks in a stage whisper requiring you to lean into the words.
The Brightening Air, Old Vic review - Chekhov jostles Conor McPherson in writer-director's latest

1 month ago | theartsdesk.com | Matt Wolf

It's one thing to be indebted to a playwright, as Tom Stoppard and Harold Pinter have been at different times to Beckett, or Sondheim's latest musical is to Sartre. But Conor McPherson's The Brightening Air – the title itself is derived from Yeats – comes so fully steeped in Chekhov that you may wonder whether this portrait of rural Ireland in 1980s County Sligo hasn't bled into provincial Russia from nearly a century before, or vice-versa.

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