1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Tales about serial killers typically revel in the harrowing. The monster's methodical torture of his victims. A terrified prisoner struggling to escape his bloody clutches.
Reality takes on a whole new meaning in Fondly, Collette Richland, the new extravaganza from Elevator Repair Service at New York Theatre Workshop, which apparently contains absolutely none o…
Letter writing is a dying (dead?) art today, but it's easy to see why it's so tantalized fiction authors over the ages.
The most acclaimed and remembered moment of Deaf West Theatre's Big River, which landed on Broadway in 2003, is still talked about today....
Disclaimer: I've never entirely understood why playwrights and directors so often feel a compelling need to mock around with the Greek classics.
Bait and switch may be frowned upon in the retail and political worlds, but in the theatre it can be positively blissful. Take, for example, Lucas Hnath's absorbing new play The Christians, …
This is not an Edith Piaf anyone has ever seen before, or for that matter one anyone would recognize.
How weird, wild, and wonderful the world can be when you view it through new eyes.
Identity is as inescapable as fingerprints in Whorl Inside a Loop, which just opened at Second Stage Theatre.
Repentance does not come easy in Love & Money, the new play by A.R. Gurney that just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
Theatre is perhaps as close as art gets to a true realm of believable make-believe, as everything that's done and everything you see has to, in some way, be possible.
If she lacks anything, it's not certainty. Jillian, the big-time university researcher at the center of Deborah Zoe Laufer's play Informed Consent, which just opened at the Duke on 42nd Stre…
Forget that it's August " when (notice that's "when," not "if") you head to the Pershing Square Signature Center to see Sam Gold's arresting production of Annie Baker's play John that just o…
Like most of Shakespeare's late-career romances, Cymbeline is difficult to classify. . . .
It's almost unheard of for a musical to arrive on Broadway already a genuine phenomenon, but it's a trick that Hamilton has managed.
Not just women and not just African-Americans " people in general don't get much more powerful than Liz Rico.
Even if you don't want to admit it, the nearly three dozen Helen Keller jokes that open Jack Cummings III's new Transport Group show, Three Days to See, are pretty funny.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Songs for the Fallen at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at HeadVoice & Held Momentarily at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Manuel Versus the State of Liberty & What Do Critics Know? at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Fooliere at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Single Wide at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Ethnic jokes. I shouldn't have even said it, should I?
Matthew Murray takes a look at Napoleon at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Pope! at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
