1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Even the darkest, most tragic musicals needn't be dour.
"Huh?"
Stepping into the Kings Theatre in Flatbush is like being catapulted back 80 years. . . .
Go to the theatre often enough, and it becomes hard to shake the feeling that there are more spins on Shakespeare plays than there actually are Shakespeare plays " they just seem to have the…
Lois Smith as the face of fear?
Children (and parents) seeking more inspiring, realistic role models than those usually found in fairy tales (or today's movies and films, but I repeat myself) should be first in line for th…
Who would have guessed that, in addition to being the crossword editor for the New York Times, Will Shortz also moonlights as Cupid?
A vast landscape of brown may well have its charms, but vibrancy is not likely to be among them"especially when John Doyle is your tour guide.
Walter Tevis's 1963 novel The Man Who Fell to Earth and the various film versions that have been made from it (including one from 1976 that starred David Bowie) are about a humanlike alien w…
Any theatregoer who's seen a play with child actors has seen bad child actors.
Christmas classics come in all shapes and flavors: big, small, flashy, simple, sweeping, homespun, electric, candlelight.
The fiercest battle of the fall theater season is being waged at the Gerald Schoenfeld, where David Mamet's play China Doll just opened.
Slimming down is not always the wisest course of action.
Great theatre moves and changes you by its ability to unlock thoughts and emotions buried well beyond the reach of everyday life. . . .
Her eyes bore right through you, but the impression she gives is not one of anger, determination, or even base intensity"but of fear.
Fear not, terminally unstylish: You don't need to know the difference between a trilby and a homburg to have a good time at Nick Jones's new play at City Center Stage II for Manhattan Theatr…
The debris is everywhere, the devastation total, and the three people who stand amid the wreckage of a once sensible world could themselves not look more dazed and uncertain.
"I come every year, and never get tired of it." . . .
Consider The Unrepeatable Moment the crossroads of crossroads.
Some 15 minutes before the start of Steve, the new play written by Mark Gerrard and directed by Cynthia Nixon that just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center as a production of The …
It begins as confusion, perhaps dotted with annoyance. What's happening? This can't be happening. Nothing's happening. Why is this happening?
If anyone is going to be able to cram the entire Lower East Side onto a stage no bigger than the average New York City living room, it's Nilaja Sun.
"She's not going to do it. No way she'll do it. She can't do it. She is. No. No. No. Ugh, ugh, ugh, I can't watch. I won't watch. I... Aaaaaaaaaaah... Wait a minute, why are so many people l…
Eddie Carbone's cage is no longer merely figurative.
Shear Madness may be many things " raucous, ribald, unpredictable, overwhelmingly enjoyable in spite of itself " but a great play it most assuredly not.
