1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Can it be possible " a blizzard on Labor Day, in Kansas?
. . . as terrifying an indictment of the tenuous nature of reality as it is an enveloping reminder that there is always more and there is always hope. . . .
Families, in nearly infinite classifications and configurations, being dissolved and recreated are the central focus of Water by the Spoonful, the play by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes that just o…
Top talent is the most thrilling theatrical present there is, and given how much of it they display in their show at the York Theatre Company, Happy Merry Hanu-Mas, Jeffry Denman and Marc Ku…
Memory, both comforting and crucifying, is the driving force behind Amy Herzog's The Great God Pan, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons.
Disconnection runs rampant throughout What Rhymes with America, the new play by Melissa James Gibson that just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater
Whether in the theatre or in real life, youthful energy is not a myth...
When you think of " or encounter " real estate hucksters, "nice" is probably not the first word to come to mind. It's certainly not a theme with which one would associate Glengarry Glen Ross…
Of the Clifford Odets plays that anchored the fleet but fiery run of the Group Theatre in the 1930s, Golden Boy might be the most significant....
Cross as many centuries as you like, an artist's problems apparently don't change that much. No one respects him, no one understands him, no one sees what he sees in the way he sees it...
Contrition and forgiveness are usually seen as positive qualities that elevate their bearers. But in David Mamet's new play at the John Golden, The Anarchist, they're instead weapons that ar…
In Dead Accounts, the new Theresa Rebeck play that just opened at the Music Box, the symbolism is... well, not exactly cutting....
Can a holiday musical be too entertaining?
Although he died more than seven years ago, playwright August Wilson lives on through the verbal music he kindled as part of his Century Cycle of ten plays chronicling the African-American e…
Strained relations between men and women have tilted at the cores of countless musicals since the form's inception.
Deep into Elf, the overloaded sugar cookie of a holiday movie adaptation in the midst of its return engagement at the Al Hirschfeld, you can feel a wave of discomfort ripple through the hous…
About a quarter of the way into this year's Radio City Christmas Spectacular, Santa Claus ... strides to the center of the enormous Radio City Music Hall stage to crow about the Rockettes..…
For all the fuss that's made during it about endless tracts of earth unfolding beneath infinite horizons, Giant . . . is strangely cramped and cluttered ...
Whatever else there is to say about Murder Ballad, at least it lives up to its title....
A charismatic leader of any sort can convince you to abandon your thoughts and senses and follow along anyway just because it seems like the right thing to do....
Fans of Cheyenne Jackson, or at least his physique, will adore the opening minutes of The Performers...
Roundabout Theatre Company's sparkling new revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
The swirl of history, as perceived through the lenses of both kin and country, is the atmosphere that pervades the new revival ...
For many contemporary theatregoers, a little Chekov goes a long way....
There are several ways to approach a production of the Martin Charnin"Thomas Meehan"Charles Strouse musical Annie.
