1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
"The four men at the heart of William Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost may be under the delusion that they can sequester themselves with their studies for three years, but life " and the wo…
"The classic artist's axiom "Write what you know" is only effective when you actually know something. . . ."
"Hate surtitles? Who can blame you? Usually the last thing you want to deal with on a night out is being forced to compensate for your inability to follow the words just because they're in a…
"The closest that Jesse Eisenberg's new comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre, which is being presented by Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, comes to actual depth is with its title."
"Its devotion to social detail is not enough to convince you that this story needs to be told in just this way, especially at the expense of heart."
"Don't believe the horrific medical rumors you've heard: Longrunitis is not a terminal condition . . ."
"They're not trying to bust up glitzy taboos, but embrace them, take them home to mom, and then try to convince them to put out afterward. And at that, they mostly succeed."
"... the most curious, involving, and ultimately beautiful plays of the year."
"Maybe Jobs got off easy?"
"Rare indeed is the musical in the New York Musical Theatre Festival that completely defies genre, but Tut, which ends its run today at the Theatre at St. Clement's, manages it."
"Few performers can truly make a bad play good, but great actors can always elevate a passable evening to the status of special event."
"Secrets aren't everything in Zoe Kazan's new play We Live Here, which just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club: They're the only thing."
"... impossible to dislike entirely ..."
"... awash in haunting images, sounds, and concepts that linger in your mind long after the performance has concluded."
"There's a genuine tragic patina to all this, even if you spend a solid two and a quarter hours watching the fall and don't see much of the pride that goes before it, and that's always compe…
"This is the real deal, folks."
"Emotion alone is not enough to make a good musical."
"If a musical's biggest problem is that it's really two shows working at cross purposes, it's heartening when each is strong enough to stand alone."
"So what if it can't decide whether it's a girl-group show or a female-empowerment vehicle?"
"Not all theatre needs to be profound."
"If you've attended Off-Broadway plays regularly the last decade or so, you've no doubt discerned the Adam Rapp Formula. . . ."
"Sometimes a show can make all the right choices for itself and still not be right."
"... a bubbly and endearing slice of contemporary life ..."
"... because you can't tell what they want from their story, all you take away from The Kid Who Would Be Pope is a headache."
"Combine Rock of Ages, Spring Awakening, Jersey Shore, and two and a half hours of traffic gridlock with George Etherege, and you get Man of Rock."
