Matt Wolf

1 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.