1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
At Tuesday's opening-night performance of Sorry, Richard Nelson's new play at The Public Theater, you could feel a palpable chill pass through the Anspacher Theater late in the evening.
It's enough to drown in. . . .
It's always a pleasure when a well-made play receives a well-made mounting, and the new revival of The Heiress that just opened at the Walter Kerr largely qualifies.
Go ahead, try to hate her. She certainly makes it easy enough for you....
Sometimes mood can be everything. It is, for example, absolutely crucial to Jon Fosse's play A Summer Day, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a Rattlestick Playwrights Theater p…
Why does it sometimes take so long to find yourself?
Four Americans " one of Pakistani descent, one of Jewish decent, one African-American, and one just plain-old white " sit at a table and munch on fennel salad. The Pakistani says to the Jew.…
With South Park and Team America: World Police, Trey Parker and Matt Stone proved long ago that jihad can indeed be a laughing matter. . . .
At first blush, Falling, the new play by Deanna Jent that just opened at the Minetta Lane, would seem to be all about bodies. . . .
Brian Friel wrote The Freedom of the City nearly four decades before the Occupy movement ignited (and fizzled), but watching the show in 2012 it's nearly impossible to tell.
The premise of Stephen Belber's new play Don't Go Gentle, which just opened at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in an MCC Theater production, is one loaded with dazzling promise.
Is it wrong that the games look like so much fun?
At what point does panache become so subtle that it vanishes altogether?
A woman who's spiritually, psychologically, and emotionally downtrodden should not also be luminous. . . .
Melancholy clearly runs in the Foote family. . . .
If you feel like time is either standing still or moving backwards, you're not alone. . . .
For all actors worry about with regards to "process," it's a remarkably complex thing to quantify. . . .
Stephen Sondheim is revered as one of the musical theatre's preeminent composer-lyricists in no small part because of his tendency to deal in the factual world rather than the fantastical on…
The public's shortsightedness and the willing capitulation of leaders to the people's ignorance should be a topic universal enough to give anyone chills at any time.
Given how prominently global warming factors into If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which Roundabout just opened at its Laura Pels Theatre, it's a bit surprising that Nick Payne's play lea…
Detroit, which just opened at Playwrights Horizons, does not necessarily take place in that once renowned, now sadly infamous Michigan city"nor, for that matter, is it ever mentioned in the …
There's nothing quite like watching someone create an iconic figure before your eyes.
The Train Driver comes across as little more than a compelling idea that never makes the best possible case for itself.
"It's so nice to have you back where you belong!"
Matthew Murray takes a look at The List and Redlight, part of FringeNYC.
