1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Fantasy and fact collide in modern romantic-comedy terms in Engagements, the amusing but flighty play by Lucy Teitler than just opened at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Second Stag…
There are lots of reasons that jukebox musicals irritate hardcore theatre fans ....
Masculinity gets a thorough dunking - almost a drowning - in Men on Boats, the Jaclyn Backhaus play that just opened at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Now that the show has just opened at the Neil Simon in a largely faithful revival, I will come clean and admit publicly: I like Cats.
Despite the infinite swath of possibilities the theatre offers, there are some hard limits on just how adventurous your show should be.
Plunging you into the mind of a troubled soul is not easy for the theatre under the best of circumstances, but musicals make it more challenging still: A demented psychology and a damaged mi…
Beer, ball (football that is, or soccer if you live on this side of the pond), and brawling: Are there more quintessential examples of Irish mindset - or at least the Irish theatrical mindse…
The world will never know for sure what it lost when Howard Ashman died of complications of AIDS in 1991.
"Outsider in our midst" stories can be excellent fodder for musicals - The King and I, The Music Man, and on and on - but that theme alone does not make an ordinary play sing.
Some mysteries are better left unexplained.
A strange thing about theatre: The louder it screams "fun," the less fun it actually generates. ...
Edgar Allan Poe's unique brand of macabre absurdism crackles on the page, but doesn't always translate perfectly to human voices and emotions.
Icon at The New York Musical Festival
Children of Salt at The New York Musical Festival
Normativity at The New York Musical Festival
The old magic, once gone, is difficult to get back.
The First Church of Mary, the Repentant Prostitute's FIFTH ANNUAL!!! Benefit Concert, Revival, and Pot Luck Dinner at The New York Musical Festival
Think ticket prices for Hamilton are scary?
The art of writing may be inherently undramatic, but that doesn't mean it contains no possibility of vitality....
Few theatre companies capture the in-the-trenches zeitgeist in their musicals the way The Public Theater does....
One glance at the Statue of Liberty and you instantly understand everything that she, and ostensibly the United States, stands for.
For a play that contains absolutely no blood or gore, Stet, which was written by Kim Davies and is now receiving its world premiere at the Abingdon Theatre Company's June Havoc Theatre, cont…
The Healing, the new play by Samuel D. Hunter that just opened at the Clurman Theatre, could - on the surface, anyway - not be a better match for the company producing it.
Not all ghost stories are created equal.
Young love needn't always be confined to adolescents....
