1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Matthew Murray takes a look at Deep Love at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Sudden Valley Fair at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Amazing Grace, which just opened at the Nederlander, may have the noblest intentions of any major musical I've ever seen.
"We were having a wild, wild party," sings the tormented chorine Queenie early on in Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party, which is playing at City Center through Saturday as part of the Encores! O…
Matthew Murray takes a look at at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Real Men at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Wearing Black at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at 210 Amlent Avenue at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
That fame makes monsters of us all, even at the most inconsequential levels, is the closest thing there is to a moral in Ruthless!, the musical by Joel Paley and Marvin Laird that just opene…
Matthew Murray takes a look at Claudio Quest at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Thirty years after they first appeared in New York, Penn Jillette and his partner Teller still have a bit more anti-magic magic to pull out of their bottomless bag of tricks. . . .
A group of young, straight men might not seem like a natural, or even workable, subject for a musical that's about the way people " most notably friends " respond to an unthinkable tragedy.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Spot on the Wall at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Matthew Murray takes a look at Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
Moses Man and Acappella at The New York Musical Theatre Festival 2015
I suppose I've long instinctively known that the act of celebrating history in the theatre is capable of creating history in the theatre, but I'm not sure I've ever seen it demonstrated with…
The eternal battle between nature and nurture establishes its latest front line in Of Good Stock, the play by Melissa Ross that just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage I space at City …
The scheming. The backbiting. The feuds. The trysts. Making theatre has never been for the faint of heart or the delicate of constitution, but " oh, sorry, did you think I was referring to a…
When people complain that musicals these days can be written about anything " and frequently are " one can't help but wonder if they have A New Brain in mind.
Joy and pain travel hand in hand in relationships of all stripes, but rarely is the interconnection between the two feelings explored as fully, and as blissfully, as it is in Significant Oth…
As anyone who's ever toiled away in one knows, an office can be a lot like a family.
The best scary tales are frequently the leanest, with every word loaded with import and landing with full bristling effect.
You're forced out of your dukedom. You're abandoned on a deserted island with nothing but your daughter and minimal supplies. Your only friends are a spirit and a deformed animal-thing.
It's an unfortunate aspect of human nature for us to be haunted our pasts, whether the achievements that defined us or the failures that stood in our way.
Taboos do not last long around Bruce Norris.
