1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Stephen Karam has written a moving, surprising, and painfully relatable play about a family on the brink of crisis in a society devastated by social and economic uncertainly.
In musicals, where every lyric, note, and dance step can (and should) have a precisely articulated and energized purpose, it's not easy to capture stasis in an exciting way.
You don't need to know anything about science to understand the issues at the heart of Heisenberg, the play by Simon Stephens that just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatr…
Let's get a few things straight right off the bat. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who wrote and are starring in Oh, Hello on Broadway, which just opened at the Lyceum, are utterly unconvincing…
It's tricky for a Broadway musical to be innovative, tough when the show is a comedy, and virtually impossible when it's constituted exclusively of pre-existing songs.
"Home" is a word that may have many definitions depending on the speaker, but in The Road to Home, it doesn't even qualify as a genuine destination.
If you have any doubts of the grip a particular 1980s sitcom about four post-menopausal women sharing a house in Miami still has on the culture....
They're so close, you could reach out and touch them: that old couple at the next table, at once unknown and familiar.
Who says Big Broadway is dead? As far as any regular theatregoer is concerned, it's alive and well and living at the John Golden.
Forget laws of logic"what happened to the laws of physics?
Few of those documenting the ever-raging battle of the sexes in the theatre are quite as experienced as Neil LaBute, who's made it some part of practically every play he's written.
It's a sad comment on both human nature and American nature that we never seem to learn our lessons properly the first time.
Hamlet is William Shakespeare's best-known (and most-quoted) play for a reason.
Looking for a foolproof curative for our current contentious (some might say unbearable) election season? Who can blame you?
Like waves crashing against the rocks on a beach, the force assaulting the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, is oppressive but gentle, and slowly but surely eroding everything they are.
Late in the first act of Fiorello!, the titular hero does something unheard of in politics in the implosive days through which we're presently living: He strives to unite.
"You give me everything you got." That commandment, handed down from one goddess to another during the electrifying course of Marie and Rosetta, may as well be the theme statement of Georg…
Forget medicine and forget magic - the greatest healing power known to mankind exists within food.
Immortality just isn't enough for some people. Take, for example, Leonard Bernstein, or at least the version of him that appears front and center in Hershey Felder's play Maestro, which just…
Just because you're a phenomenon doesn't mean you're bulletproof.
Twelfth Night, which is playing at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through tomorrow night, is the best of the three Public Works productions I've seen ...
With The Producers more than a decade ago, Broadway's biggest head honchos learned the hard way about the dangers of putting on a musical with genuine star-casting requirements in an environ…
When it comes to exploring the darkest regions of the human soul in search of the reasons we behave in the devastating ways we do, few playwrights are more experienced or gifted than Leslye …
There's a closer relationship between the erosion of the land and the erosion of human souls than you may initially assume. . . .
In one corner: the corrupt government, which uses its chosen arm of force (given that its agents wear black Kevlar and wield powerful pistols, apparently the FBI) to impose its will via stif…
