1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Matthew Murray takes a look at Flambé Dreams and Himself and Nora at the New York Musical Theatre Festival.
It may be unfair to judge the whole of a years-long revolution by the behavior of its earliest proponents, but sometimes evolution's roiling waves make it impossible ignore a long-standing b…
What is there to say about a new musical that borrows so heavily from an ancient one that just watching it unfold is enough to trigger body-wracking déjà vu?
Liz Caplan is the voice teacher to the stars, with students such as Neil Patrick Harris, Allison Janney, Megan Hilty, and Cheyenne Jackson.
Any video you make of yourself has to look good. One thing that can help: Gomite's Tiltpod.
"... Triassic Parq: The Musical, is a snoozer."
Scene Partner 2.0 has the capacity to help you get off book, but it's neither perfect nor as inexpensive as its “free” price might suggest.
Loss, with its full potential for derailing our minds and lives (in that order), is the chief concern of Jim Henry's new play 7th Monarch, at the Acorn Theatre.
"Pastoral" is not the first word that comes to mind when considering the forest of Arden in Daniel Sullivan's handsome production of As You Like It at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
Those who lament the Broadway musical's continual slide into juvenilia should at least partially rejoice in the York Theatre Company's revival of Closer Than Ever.
Whatever criticisms may be made of Slowgirl, the new play by Greg Pierce with which LCT3 is inaugurating its Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center, its being overly subtle is not one of them.
Despite its reputation as a charming little character comedy, Mary Chase's 1944 Harvey is a surprisingly dark take on the difficult subject of grief.
"Were the play not acted and staged with the unshakable conviction it is here, it would border on the unbearable."
If it takes most believers a while to construct the foundation of their faith and a lifetime to reinforce it, it stands to reason that much the same will be true about plays concerning that …
If the writer doesn't care enough to go the extra mile, why should we?
Given the importance of unintended consequences to its plot, Fernanda Coppel's new play Chimichangas and Zoloft is well named.
The quaffle flies through the air with the greatest of ease in Potted Potter, the "unauthorized Harry Potter experience" that just opened at the Little Shubert Theatre....
Sometimes just by moving uptown you can cross an ocean.
Rather than The New York Review of Books, it should be a little more like, well, Vogue.
My Children! My Africa! may not be the tautest and tightest of Athol Fugard's plays about apartheid-crippled South Africa, but good luck discerning that from the new Signature Theatre reviva…
"But even if you adore every single person they depict, enduring this much concentrated non-action is not easy. Neither is staying awake."
Universality takes on a vicious double meaning in Title and Deed, the new play by Will Eno that just opened at the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Signature Center.
And it's tough to think of another recent play that has handled the subject as completely, as nakedly, or as rip-roaringly theatrically as this one. . . .
For the last several years, the Astoria Performing Arts Center has given its audiences an annual spring treat: a surprisingly large production of a surprisingly large-scale musical, all done…
Temperature words in show titles can be dangerous if the evening's content can't live up to them.
