Matthew Broderick

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‘Who can afford them?’: theatregoers react to £395 tickets for Neil Simon play
Next year’s opening of Plaza Suite in West End, with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick, reignites affordability debate

Rupert Jones and Harriet Sherwood

15, Sep, 2023 @4:43 PM

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Reese Witherspoon for president! Election, a comedy from a time when US politics was amusing
Alexander Payne’s spiky and smart 1999 film, with its cast led by Witherspoon and Matthew Broderick, follows a race for high school president in Omaha, Nebraska

Wenlei Ma

29, Aug, 2023 @3:00 PM

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​​Painkiller review – Matthew Broderick’s character is just evil
The actor’s role as the head of the company behind the opioid crisis isn’t the most rewarding, but this drama is furious, unflinching TV. Its horrifying story should be heard again and again

Lucy Mangan

10, Aug, 2023 @4:00 AM

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‘My legacy? I’m Ferris Bueller’: Matthew Broderick on life, love and opioids
From storming the West End with his wife Sarah Jessica Parker, to playing the architect of the US opioids crisis in dark new Netflix drama Painkiller – the star is taking a bold new direction

Xan Brooks

04, Aug, 2023 @11:00 AM

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No Hard Feelings review – Jennifer Lawrence comedy plays sex work for laughs
This age-gap story – Lawrence has to seduce a teenage virgin boy to get a free car – refuses to make bought sex anything resembling an issue

Peter Bradshaw

21, Jun, 2023 @12:00 PM

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Sarah Jessica Parker to make West End debut with husband Matthew Broderick
The pair will star in a revival of Neil Simon’s marriage comedy Plaza Suite, which transfers from a hugely successful Broadway run

Chris Wiegand

08, Jun, 2023 @1:53 PM

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Plaza Suite review – Sarah Jessica Parker sells Neil Simon’s marriage comedy
The Sex and the City star plays well opposite her husband Matthew Broderick in an overlong triptych of bitter relationship tales

Alexis Soloski

29, Mar, 2022 @1:00 AM

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Hear me out: why 1998's Godzilla isn't a bad movie
Continuing our series of writers defending unloved movies is a reappraisal of Roland Emmerich’s silly, bombastic take on the giant monster

Edward Tew

01, Feb, 2021 @7:23 AM

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Broadway in a garage: the clumsy pleasures of Rosie O'Donnell's star-studded livestream
A host of big names, including Lin-Manuel Miranda and Sarah Jessica Parker, took part in a self-congratulatory yet oddly charming YouTube-based revue

Alexis Soloski

23, Mar, 2020 @2:52 PM

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The week in theatre: King Hedley II; Rutherford and Son; The Starry Messenger – review
Lenny Henry and Aaron Pierre are supercharged in August Wilson’s epic while Roger Allam excels as a stern Edwardian patriarch

Susannah Clapp

02, Jun, 2019 @7:00 AM

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The Starry Messenger review – Broderick and McGovern face up to cosmic failures
Kenneth Lonergan’s tale of astronomy and midlife misery makes fine use of an A-list cast but never truly explodes into life

Michael Billington

29, May, 2019 @10:00 PM

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Evening at the Talk House review – Wallace Shawn's dark comedy plays it safe
Despite a strong performance from a perfectly cast Matthew Broderick, this play about a play doesn’t cut as deep as it should

Alexis Soloski

17, Feb, 2017 @3:00 AM

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