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Matthew Warchus

October 2023

  • DANIEL CRAIG AND MICHAEL GAMBON IN "A NUMBER" @ ROYAL COURT THEATRE (OPENING 26-9-02) ©TRISTRAM KENTON 9/02 (3 RAVELEY STREET, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355) email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    ‘Delicate, dangerous, anarchic’: Daniel Craig, Michael Mann, Matthew Macfadyen and more remember Michael Gambon

    He wasn’t just a magnificent actor – he was also a raconteur, mentor, joker, engineer and pilot. Friends including Tom Hollander, Penelope Wilton, Simon Callow, Nicholas Hytner, Matthew Warchus and Rupert Goold pay tribute to the star

June 2023

  • Toheeb Jimoh and Isis Hainsworth as Romeo and Juliet

    The week in theatre: Romeo and Juliet; When Winston Went to War With the Wireless; Groundhog Day – review

  • Andy Karl as Phil Connors in Groundhog Day at the Old Vic, London.

    Groundhog Day review – repeat production makes for guaranteed entertainment

November 2022

  • Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull in Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical. Cr. Dan Smith/Netflix © 2022. Film still

    Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical review – immensely enjoyable reworking of the stage hit

    Newcomer Alisha Weir and a game Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull excel in Matthew Warchus’s highly stylised screen adaptation

July 2022

  • Helen Hunt at the 2022 Film Independent Spirit Awards in March.

    Helen Hunt to star in satire at the Old Vic about ‘a highly contagious virus’

    Jonathan Spector’s 2018 play Eureka Day, about the social disarray after an outbreak of mumps, will receive its European premiere in September

June 2022

  • Emma Thompson as Agatha Trunchbull.

    Matilda musical movie starring Emma Thompson to open London film festival

    World premiere of the film version of the Roald Dahl-based musical also stars Lashana Lynch, Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough

May 2022

  • West End debut not happening. For now … Timothée Chalamet.

    Culture in peril
    Timothée Chalamet’s West End debut cancelled after two years of postponements

    The Old Vic theatre says its much-anticipated production of 4000 Miles, co-starring Eileen Atkins, will no longer go ahead

January 2022

  • “The French Dispatch” by Wes Anderson, Italian première at Fondazione Prada in Milan<br>MILAN, ITALY - NOVEMBER 04: Wes Anderson attends the Italian première of the “The French Dispatch” by Wes Anderson at Fondazione Prada on November 04, 2021 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Stefania M. D'Alessandro/Getty Images for Fondazione Prada)

    Wes Anderson to make new Roald Dahl adaptation with Benedict Cumberbatch

    The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, about a magical gambler, is the latest project to arise from Netflix’s purchase of author’s catalogue

November 2021

  • Stephen Mangan in rehearsals for A Christmas Carol at the Old Vic.

    Stephen Mangan: ‘I still feel like I’m 14 years old’

  • ‘There was one workshop where Matilda was played by a puppet’ … Josie Griffiths in the hit show, now in its 10th year in London’s West End.

    How we made
    ‘It had to be dark’ – how we made Matilda the Musical

May 2021

  • ‘Keeping aspirations high’ … the Old Vic in London.

    Old Vic theatre plans ‘supremely informal’ welcome back for audiences

    Exclusive: Emma Rice’s adaptation of Bagdad Cafe and Harold Pinter’s darkly comic The Dumb Waiter staged in July as venue reopens

December 2020

  • ‘A Christmas Carol’ Rehearsal - The Old Vic<br>LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 11: Andrew Lincoln (Scrooge) seen during a rehearsal for ‘In Camera A Christmas Carol’ at The Old Vic Theatre on December 11, 2020 in London, England. (Photo by Manuel Harlan - The Old Vic/Old Vic via Getty Images)

    Lockdown culture
    A Christmas Carol review – Andrew Lincoln's Scrooge is a tearjerking gem

    The Old Vic’s zoom-broadcast version of the Dicken classic is full of heart and pulls back the curtain on Covid-era theatre

September 2020

  • Michael Sheen in a performance of Faith Healer, streamed live and performed to an empty auditorium.

    Faith Healer review – Friel's spellbinder captures theatre's magic

    Michael Sheen, Indira Varma and David Threlfall are a superb trinity for Brian Friel’s powerful monologues

June 2020

  • Claire Foy and Matt Smith rehearse on The Old Vic stage for upcoming Zoom performances of LUNGS

    Lockdown culture
    'I've threatened to break the rules and kiss her': Claire Foy and Matt Smith on acting in lockdown

  • Matt Smith and Claire Foy in a dress rehearsal for Lungs: In Camera at the Old Vic.

    Lungs: In Camera review – Claire Foy and Matt Smith mix the personal and planetary

May 2020

  • The Old Vic

    Old Vic theatre is in 'seriously perilous' position, warns Matthew Warchus

    Covid-19 crisis draining theatre’s reserves, says artistic director, who announces new community schemes and streamed shows

January 2020

  • When I Grow Up … Josie Griffiths in the RSC’s Matilda, A Musical directed by Matthew Warchus.

    New Matilda movie in works from director of West End musical

    Casting call goes out for film version of the Roald Dahl classic, led by Matthew Warchus, who staged RSC’s smash hit

December 2019

  • Sally Dexter as Scrooge in Christmas Carol – A Fairy Tale at Wilton’s Music Hall.

    A tale of two Carols: Dickens's festive feast served with a twist

    This year, the tried-and-tested tale at London’s Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton’s Music Hall, where Scrooge’s sister takes the lead

June 2019

  • Andrew Scott as Garry Essendine and Enzo Cilenti as Joe Lyppiatt in Present Laughter. Photo Manuel Harlan

    The week in theatre: The Hunt; Present Laughter; The Damned – review

  • Indira Varma

    Game of Thrones' Indira Varma: 'All I was being offered was women undressing'

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