1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
These days, it's more common to see William Shakespeare plays in modern dress than to see them done traditionally; it's easier, cheaper, and (sigh) more relatable.
Darkness encroaches softly but surely in The Father, which just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatre Club production.
A Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian walk into Jerusalem and... Wow, that really does sound like some sort of corny joke, doesn't it?
What's it like living in the shadow of genius?
Kids want to grow up to be free of boundaries and restrictions; adults who want to be kids again typically desire that because they've learned what the boundaries and restrictions are and no…
You may think that piano chords are giving way to human voices. Or that the dusty mechanics of the past are making way for the innovations of the future.
Alex Brightman, Danny Burstein, Leslie Odom Jr., and this Broadway season's other leading men ought to be mighty thankful that the musical Cagney, which premiered at the York Theatre Company…
When you see people flying and slamming into walls, and enormous chunks of ceiling crumble to the ground, your first instinct may be that an earthquake or tornado is afoot.
Of all the musicals crying out for the City Center Encores! series to release them from theatrical purgatory"1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, The Golden Apple, Love Life"1776 would seem to be the l…
The greatest feat of magic - okay, the only one - in Tarell Alvin McCraney's play Head of Passes, which just opened at The Public Theater, is its making you an integral part of the land on w…
Who would have thought that something this fresh could seem so stale?
They may wear crisp, clingy, contemporary clothing, wield smartphones the way warriors of earlier ages did longswords, and bicker about the political nuances of global finance in 2016....
If you've ever longed for an honest-to-goodness love potion to salve your romantic woes"and haven't most of us at one time or another?"The Effect is the cold splash of reality that should br…
Is there a more perfect musical than She Loves Me?
A genuine superstar is catapulted into a swirling existential crisis when his mother dies, and his attempts to extricate himself from it end up causing nothing but pain and loss to everyone …
If we don't associate the South with magic and wonderment anymore, maybe we need to rethink our priorities.
Are there any great musicals about causes?
Trembling hands tell the whole tale. One is placed on the inner thigh as a sign of intense affection. Another reaches out, desperate for connection. . . .
It's no secret that statutory rape, like any other kind of rape, leaves many scars that will not be healed.
Remember Airplane!? The 1980 Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker film didn't just ignite the careers of its trio of creators or launch Leslie Nielsen into a second career as a deadpan comic par excellenc…
You're struck by the energy the moment you step into the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
The landscape is vast and empty, the pockmarks in the soil all but visible.
"What the hell happened to history?" . . .
Even if you leave your homeland, your homeland never entirely leaves you.
Chlorine is not something that everyone will enjoy assaulting their nostrils upon entering New York Theatre Workshop for Red Speedo, the new play by Lucas Hnath that just opened there, but i…
