Wednesday, December 10, 2025

'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo' review — this scorched-earth portrait of war is immensely powerful by Matt Wolf

The protean Kathryn Hunter fills in brilliantly for an indisposed David Threlfall in the European premiere of Rajiv Joseph's 2011 Broadway play about the ravages of war, directed by the ever…

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:21AM
Monday, December 8, 2025

'Last Days' review — this Kurt Cobain-inspired modern opera is totally mesmerising by Matt Wolf

2022 co-commission between the Royal Opera and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama is back for a longer run of a work inspired by the Gus van Sant film of the same name about onetime Nir…

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:14PM
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

'Fallen Angels' review — Janie Dee and Alexandra Gilbreath are a hoot in Noël Coward's risqué comedy by Matt Wolf

Janie Dee dazzles afresh in this centenary revival of Noel Coward's fragile if sexually audacious 1925 comedy, last seen in London a quarter-century ago

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:51AM
Monday, December 1, 2025

Sir Tom Stoppard — a playwright for the ages by Matt Wolf

An appreciation of Sir Tom Stoppard, arguably the greatest English-language dramatist of his generation

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:25PM
Thursday, November 27, 2025

'Lovers Actually' review — this indecently funny musical spoof of the classic film is a joyful festive pick-me-up by Matt Wolf

Neil Hurst and Jodie Prenger co-author a ribald, rude, riotously funny take-down of the 2003 film, directed by Alex Jackson, who gave us "Homo Alone"

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:35AM
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

'The Horse of Jenin' review — this Palestinian coming-of-age tale brilliantly mixes compassion, conviction and comedy by Matt Wolf

Alaa Shehada's hit solo play from Edinburgh transfers to London, mixing humour, history - and horror

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PM
Monday, November 24, 2025

'Ride the Cyclone' review — this strange but sweet new musical is one of the giddiest delights of the year by Matt Wolf

Grace Galloway and Damon Gould are amongst the terrific cast in the European premiere of this quirky, sweet Off Broadway hit, seen originally in Canada; Lizzie Gee directs and choreographs.

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:14AM
Monday, November 3, 2025

'Dead Man Walking' review — this extraordinary contemporary opera has the force of a thunderclap by Matt Wolf

Christine Rice gives a tremendous performance as Sister Helen Prejean in the ENO premiere of Jake Heggie's scorching opera

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:56PM
Friday, October 24, 2025

'The Assembled Parties' review — this elegantly elegiac family drama is a heartfelt study of mortality by Matt Wolf

Jennifer Westfeldt makes her London stage debut alongside Tracy-Ann Oberman in the UK bow of Richard Greenberg's 2013 Broadway hit, with sterling support from Alexander Marks, marking his pr…

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:05AM
Saturday, October 4, 2025

'Troilus and Cressida' review — Shakespeare's anti-heroic, satirical war play is formidably bruising by Matt Wolf

Owen Horsley makes his Globe debut with a patchy version of Shakespeare's take-no-prisoner satire, here starring Kasper Hilton-Hille as Troilus, with Samantha Spiro as a female Pandarus

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:50AM
Thursday, September 25, 2025

'Entertaining Mr Sloane' review — this eye-popping production brings the bad boy of the London stage back home by Matt Wolf

Tamzin Outhwaite impresses once again as Kath in Nadia Fall's sterling revival of Joe Orton's breakout play; hip-hop star Jordan Stephens plays Sloane.

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:57PM
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

'Titus Andronicus' review — Shakespeare's tragic gorefest becomes a powerful play for today by Matt Wolf

A game John Hodgkinson has replaced Simon Russell Beale in this transfer from Stratford of the RSC version of Shakespeare's abiding, cruelly timely gorefest

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 12:51PM
Thursday, September 18, 2025

'Reunion' review — the cast is beautifully in sync in this stormy family drama by Matt Wolf

Irish writer-director Mark O'Rowe of Howie the Rookie fame brings his frantic and furious family drama to London with a standout performance from Peter Corboy

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:46AM
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

'Twelfth Night' review — this carnivalesque production steers a course between the sad and the sublime by Matt Wolf

Jos Vantyler's Feste is the standout in the director Robin Belfield's Shakespeare debut at this address; Pearce Quigley makes a notably deadpan Malvolio

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:33AM
Saturday, July 19, 2025

'Sing Street' review — this energetic 1980s-set musical is powered by youthful exuberance by Matt Wolf

Tony winner Enda Walsh's book lets down this energetic adaptation of the 2016 Dublin-set film which still isn't Broadway-ready; Tony winner Rebecca Taichman, as before, directs

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:09PM
Thursday, July 10, 2025

'Girl from the North Country' review — Bob Dylan's music is the crowning glory of this impressionistic show by Matt Wolf

Writer-director Conor McPherson's diffuse musical is back, this time with two-time Olivier-winner Katie Brayben (Tammy Faye) leading those singing the Dylan songbook

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:14AM
Friday, July 4, 2025

Superproducer Sonia Friedman on building a theatre empire by Matt Wolf

Sonia Friedman looks forward and back on a producing career that exists without parallel

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:53AM
Thursday, June 26, 2025

'This Bitter Earth' review — Billy Porter directs an intense, politically charged and passionate two-hander by Matt Wolf

Billy Porter shifts from starring on the West End in Cabaret to directing this politically charged two-hander, starring Omari Douglas and Alexander Lincoln

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 06:57AM
Monday, June 9, 2025

Which Tony Award-winning shows might come to London? by Matt Wolf

A look at the Tony roster's potential for a London transfer

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 10:28AM
Wednesday, May 21, 2025

'Shucked' review — this riotously funny country-and-western musical is a huskily entertaining joy by Matt Wolf

Georgina Onuorah follows on from Tony winner Alex Newell in riotously entertaining London outing of the tangy, twangy C&W show, directed as on Broadway by Jack O'Brien

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 09:56AM
Thursday, May 15, 2025

'Insane Asylum Seekers' review — this remarkably empathetic solo piece deftly tackles immigration, anxiety and family by Matt Wolf

Emily Ling Williams' direction finds humour and levity in what could devolve into a mere history lesson, and Tommy Sim'aan's sterling solo performance is a marvel

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:13PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2025

'An Oak Tree' review — Jessie Buckley and Tim Crouch rip up the theatrical rule book in this transformational show by Matt Wolf

Tim Crouch's maverick two-hander returns, with Jessie Buckley kicking off the sequence of guests

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:18PM
Friday, May 2, 2025

'Giant' review — John Lithgow gives a career-best performance in this blisteringly topical colossus of a play by Matt Wolf

John Lithgow returns in even more devastating form in Giant, ramped up for the West End by a scorching London theatre debut from Aya Cash, replacing Romola Garai

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 05:58AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

'How to Fight Loneliness' review — Neil LaBute tackles the pressing issue of assisted dying in his provocative play by Matt Wolf

Justina Kehinde plays a dying woman with an unusual request in Neil LaBute's circular, repetitive, often contrived play, now in its UK premiere

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:51PM
Saturday, April 12, 2025

'Speed' review — this lively, high-velocity drama is a constantly surprising thrill ride by Matt Wolf

Nikesh Patel plays Abz in a terrifc new play from 2024 Olivier nominee Mohamed-Zain Dada (Blue Mist.).

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:18AM
Monday, April 7, 2025

Reflecting on the Olivier Awards 2025 by Matt Wolf

A view from inside the Albert Hall at a ceremony at which "Benjamin Button"'s John Dagleish brought the audience to tears and Simon Lipkin's Fagin and "Fiddler"'s bottle dance prompted cheers

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 02:49PM
Tuesday, April 1, 2025

'Apex Predator' review — new thriller play is out for blood by Matt Wolf

Laura Whitmore and Bryan Dick in John Donnelly play directed by Blanche McIntyre, fresh on the heels of The Invention of Love at the same address

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 01:24PM
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

'Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors' review — Bram Stoker's vampire classic becomes a fang-tastic high-camp spoof by Matt Wolf

James Daly repeats his star turn as a vampy, bare-chested Count Dracula in London premiere of Gordon Greenberg and Steve Rosen's Off Broadway romp; Charlie Stemp, from Crazy for You, co-star…

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 11:54AM
Thursday, March 13, 2025

'Farewell Mister Haffmann' review — Nigel Harman is eerily commanding as a Nazi official in this French wartime drama by Matt Wolf

Hit French play comes to London, translated by Jeremy Sams and with a scene-stealing supporting performance from onetime Olivier winner, Nigel Harman (Shrek): Michael Fox and Jennifer Kirby …

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:16AM
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

'Weather Girl' review — this absolutely scorching solo play is like an apocalyptic 'Fleabag' by Matt Wolf

Julia McDermott is a solo sensation in her partner Brian Watkins's scorching solo play set amidst a world on the cusp of meltdown

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 07:14AM
Sunday, February 23, 2025

'East is South' review — Beau Willimon's thrilling new play takes us on a wild ride through the world of AI by Matt Wolf

Cliff Curtis and Olivier Award winner Luke Treadaway in dense new play by the Oscar-nominated American writer Beau Willimon

SOURCE: LondonTheatre.co.uk at 08:13AM

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