1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
The dark side of marriage equality gets the full-sunlight treatment in Dada Woof Papa Hot, which just opened at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center.
Eternal love is wonderful in theory, but the trust and hard work it requires mean that it won't always survive the brutal light of day.
What price " if any " is too high to pay for progress?
How many today would even try to defend the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II?
Yes, that is Donald Trump's photo on a fan held by a law-enforcement official. There is, in fact, a painted line on the ground and people running around in T-shirts that read "Border Patrol."
For a monarch unable to adapt to the changing whims of his time, and holding on to a version of tradition that no one else respects (let alone remembers), every day is full of tortuous uncer…
You are keenly aware of water's role as both giver and taker of life across every moment of Roundabout's new version of Thérèse Raquin at Studio 54.
Few plays of recent vintage are as easy to like as A.R. Gurney's Sylvia.
Anyone who has children, or has spent enough time around them, has undoubtedly exclaimed, "They grow up so fast!"
Sound is how you experience it first.
Looking to lose a lot of pounds quickly? You'll find no better teacher than Dames at Sea. . . .
A jumble of complex, tangled feelings floods First Daughter Suite, the new musical by Michael John LaChiusa at The Public Theater, but what you feel most is the burden.
Even given the myriad recent changes in health care law, heart medication can be costly.
Think cows heading to slaughter have it bad? That's nothing compared to the human characters in Kill Floor, the new play by Abe Koogler that just opened at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theate…
Walk into Stage 42 (formerly the Little Shubert) for Trip of Love, and you're immediately plunged into its 1960s countercultural setting.
Recovery takes on myriad meanings in Lindsey Ferrentino's beautiful, richly textured new play Ugly Lies the Bone, which is now playing at the Black Box Theatre at the Herald and Miriam Stein…
When Perfect Arrangement, the play by Topher Payne that just opened at the Duke on 42nd Street in a Primary Stages production, opens, we're immersed in the afterglow of a six-person dinner p…
Yes, you can love the players without loving the game or how they play it.
"What is your name?" . . .
Marlo Thomas still knows her way around a sitcom.
Although Sam Shepard's Fool for Love celebrates heat in forms both emotional and chemical, by the end of Daniel Aukin's revival of the play for Manhattan Theatre Club at the Samuel J. Friedm…
No matter how bad your family is, the two we meet in Barbecue, which just opened at The Public Theater, are almost certainly worse.
Maybe this is what electrocution looks like from the inside.
Although it premiered in England in 1979 and Off-Broadway two years later, Caryl Churchill's Cloud Nine feels fresh, crazy, and relevant enough to have been written yesterday.
The relentless clashes of generations, as viewed through lenses of pride and common sense, are the fuel The Quare Land, the amusing but rudderless play by John McManus that just opened at th…
