Matt Wolf

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

Civilization is a delicate thing. That rather sizable truism underpins the sparky, appropriately high-velocity Speed, the latest play from Mohamed-Zain Dada, whose Royal Court entry Blue Mist was an Olivier nominee last year. He’s shifted venues this time round to the Bush, in the process giving that adventuresome address the liveliest offering it’s fielded since Shifters some 14 months ago.

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

This year’s Olivier Awards winners have by now been clocked, but we all know that a roll call of recipients forms only one part of such occasions. Of equal note at this year’s ceremony was an unusual generosity of spirit, coupled with a prevailing eloquence, that set in early and continued pretty well all the way through.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Matt Wolf |Houman Barekat |Eleanor Stanford

BAREKAT I agree that Macdonald's "Waiting for Godot" deserved greater recognition. I was a little surprised by Romola Garai winning best actress in a supporting role for "The Years." It's an ensemble play, in which several performers take turns to play the main character, Annie - so they're not exactly "supporting" roles. Sharon D. Clarke's turn as the prickly, imperious Lady Bracknell in " The Importance of Being Earnest " would have been a more deserving winner for me.

3 weeks ago | broadway.com | Matt Wolf

There’s a spring in the step of the London theater in April, as seems appropriate, with new musicals based on classic titles jostling alongside the return of a major film star to the London stage and a new production from the hottest director going. All this plus the Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys, to kick things off. For more on all these enticements, read on.

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

Read our review of comedy Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, now in performances at the Menier Chocolate Factory to 3 May. Matt Wolf18 March, 2025, 15:15The jokes come fast and furious in Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, whose jokey title recalls Mel Brooks’s screen heyday with ticklishly named films as Blazing Saddles and High Anxiety.