1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
We all know you can't go home again, but how many of us know where our true spiritual homes actually are?
The new production of Gigi, which just opened at the Neil Simon, is a fascinating exercise in exploring just how far a revival can go " and how far it shouldn't.
Is there any excuse more popular, or more vapid, than "the devil made me do it"?
For someone who is constantly carrying a pair of unspeakable burdens, Kyra Hollis moves pretty efficiently.
No visionary lasts forever. Take, for example, Hank, the Chicago bar owner at the center of Laura Eason's new play at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Undeniable Sound of Right Now.
It's often said that pornography can't be easily defined, but you know it when you see it. Does the same apply to genius?
For a love letter to... Wait, no, that's not right. What's stronger than a love letter? Poetry? A flat-out marriage proposal? A deed to a house? A deed to a small country?
When Wendy Wasserstein's play The Heidi Chronicles opened in 1988, it was perfectly poised in history.
Since its inception in 1995, City Center Encores! has redeemed failed musicals, and brought to new light others we may have forgotten (or never known) existed.
More than just illnesses can be psychosomatic.
The urge to create is a powerful one, especially when the artist realizes and is in full command of his nearly godlike abilities to articulate and " when necessary " reshape reality.
When traveling, should luggage handling ever be more than half the fun?
There are plenty of takeaways from Josephine and I, the invigorating one-woman show written by and starring Cush Jumbo that just opened at Joe's pub.
There are years of possibilities in every glance, word, or kiss exchanged by two people who are, or simply may be, in love.
Slavery of the soul can be even more violent and deadening a condition than slavery of the body, though, naturally, the two are often tightly interlinked.
No ordinary person can quiet a crowd with a half-turn of the head. Or make your heart skip a beat by stepping into a room just so. Or sit in a chair with far more purpose than most conduct e…
If your laughs don't go deep, at least they can go long.
The Mystery of Love & Sex, the new play by Bathsheba Doran that just opened at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, is nothing if not inclusive.
Each of us is constantly adrift on a personal stream of consciousness, but it's not easy to bring other people along for the ride without drowning them.
Our lives and choices are shaped in innumerable ways by others, especially those closest to us, often in ways we don't recognize at the time (if ever).
It's not a bird and it's not a plane, but Brooklynite is just about featherweight enough to fly " and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
We're so consumed with the idea of "feeling good" in this country that we can easily forget that there are plenty of places where our concepts of self-actualization simply do not apply.
How you behave when no one can see you is frequently cited as the ultimate definition of character.
Not everything is a laughing matter.
Depression, addiction, bulimia, and rape are terrible things, as the teens at the core of the new musical One Day are all too ready to tell you.
