1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
A part of the new Public LAB Shakespeare initiative, this production, which has been directed by Barry Edelstein, is so handsomely appointed, your mind is utterly freed to focus on the text.…
Larry Brenner's comedy soars as long as it embraces the geeks who are its subjects, and Jeff Kreisler's mock self-help seminar is a smart and funny tribute to large-scale greed.
A ghost hovers over The Other Thing, the chill-free thriller by Emily Schwend that just opened at the McGinn-Cazale Theatre as part of Second Stage Theatre's Uptown series, but it's not the …
They don't look like any flowers you've ever seen. No stems. No petals. No buzzing bees determined to elicit from them, and then spread anew, the basic elements of life.
It's ironic, if not also comfortingly correct, that those who understand life the best are those who have the least of it left.
Suburban living has a unique set of challenges for those in certain lines of work.
One hit is all it takes to turn a human being into a monster. Or is it a human into a god? Or a victim into an oppressor?
Entering the Liberty Theatre is like stepping back in time.
Tragedy and comedy share a tighter bond than is usually assumed. After all, doesn't laughter make the dark more devastating, and immense anguish find an unparalleled release in laughter?
New Orleans without Mardi Gras is like a New York day without traffic, right?
Tired of the spoofsical? Who can blame you?
By the time you finally arrive in Siberia, deep into the second act of Doctor Zhivago, which just opened at the Broadway, you've already been in a deep chill for upwards of two hours.
Sometimes all you need for your trifle is for a star to give it gravitas.
Not everything that's beautiful from a distance retains its captivating allure when seen close up.
Though Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II's final show together, The Sound of Music, opened on Broadway in 1959, the last 55 years have, if anything, burnished the duo's reputation as …
Madness can be debilitating, but it's usually not considered an infectious disease. In Austin Pendleton's new production of Hamlet for Classic Stage Company, however, it proves far more comm…
Theatre obeys its own unique science, and it's not one that those in the "outside world" will able to recognize or even understand. Take, for example, the small matter of flying.
No wedding ever goes off completely without a hitch. (At least no wedding with which I've been involved.)
Admit it: You've fallen into the Wikipedia whirlpool once or twice.
Can you blame Richard Hannay for looking exhausted? He's been running a bloody long time, after all, with investigators hot on his trail every step of the way.
Even when it's drenched in the unmistakable light of day, the city is astonishingly dreamlike.
Even if two Republican candidates hadn't already announced (and there weren't already seemingly dozens of others lined up to do so), the 2016 campaign would now officially be underway, thank…
No offense to the current troupe"Elizabeth, Charles, William, Kate, and so on"but the British monarchy just ain't what it used to be.
