1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
No prisoners are taken, no shots are fired, and no bombs are detonated.
"Whodunit? Who cares?" . . .
Matthew Murray takes a look at Castle Walk and Homo: The Musical at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
It can be easy to forget that 40 wasn't always the new 20 ...
For those who were alive and of proper age when The Beatles were in vogue, it's quite likely that no tribute to the groundbreaking band will ever be enough.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Standby and Crossing Swords at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Marry Harry and Boys Will Be Boys at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
The Pirates of Finance and Legacy Falls at the New York Musical Theatre Festival
Those who've despaired in recent years about musicals trending away from genuine emotions and into more superficial realms will not be heartened by Nobody Loves You " even though it purports…
If not for that initial jolt of air conditioning you experience, you wouldn't be able to easily tell the difference between the atmospheres outside and inside the Walter Kerr Theatre.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Life Could Be a Dream and The Swiss Family Robinson at The 2013 New York Musical Theatre Festival
Is The Cradle Will Rock better history than it is a musical?
Have you ever known someone who's tone deaf? No, not someone who's merely not a good (or even decent) singer, but a person who is literally incapable of discerning or matching a pitch?
Step into The Duke on 42nd Street and it won't be long until you feel a crushing burden being spirited from you.
If a rising tide does indeed lift all boats, there's no question what happens when the water level falls.
Latching onto the ancient axiom that fact is stranger than fiction, Jonathan Tolins based his play Buyer & Cellar on the bizarrely true (and truly bizarre) reality that Barbra Streisand has …
"To science!"
If ever William Shakespeare wrote a romp, The Comedy of Errors is it.
Something amazing appears during the penultimate scene of A Kid Like Jake, Daniel Pearle's new play at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center: genuine conflict.
Revolutionary musicals don't come along too often, so it's more than a little surprising that The Public Theater is now giving New York audiences a second within less than two months.
Reasons to Be Happy is full of more than its fair share of reasons to be disappointed.
With his new play that just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, 3 Kinds of Exile, John Guare is proving twice over that he should not give up his day job. . . .
Relationships, like plays, thrive on chemistry: They can be amazing when they have it, and stultifying when they don't.
How original can a play be when it depends on a shopworn premise?
The beauty of illusions and the heartbreak one incurs when they begin to fade is both the subject of the new musical Far From Heaven and its chief stumbling block.
