1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
As are many things, beauty is deceptive: You only ever see the finished product, not the interminable amounts of time, heartbreak, and/or failure that went into ensuring it.
Giving the benefit of the doubt to David Rhodes is the best I can do with regards to his new play Consent, which just opened at the Black Box at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Th…
Heisenberg, the new play by Simon Stephens that just opened at Manhattan Theatre Club Stage II, contains no direct reference to its likeliest namesake, Werner Heisenberg.
There is no weapon that's not in Ben's arsenal. Deflection. Deceit. Derision. Belittlement. Humor (on occasion). Heck, even outright racism if it will get the job done.
In another time and another place, I imagine the charge could be leveled that David Javerbaum is courting blasphemy.
If all a musical has going for it are its spine-tingling songs, there are worse things.
It's difficult to name a more potent theatrical partnership in the current New York theatre than that of Annie Baker and Sam Gold. ...
Every moment of sheer genius — and in the score, there are many — is met with an equal instance of what-were-they-thinking disappointment. The result is a show that annoys just a…
The only thing it conclusively proves is that some shows fail for very good reasons.
When the most memorable thing about a play that deals exclusively with sex is one speech delivered by one actress, there is either something very right with the actress or something very wro…
As we’re now even farther removed from the objects of parody, it’s much more difficult to replicate the original show’s impact.
The play and production are sometimes raw and sometimes burnt, and rarely taste just right.
It takes a long time for La Bête, the 1991 David Hirson play currently being revived at The Music Box, to get to its real point, but when it does it arrives with the force of last month's…
Despite the participation of top-notch talent onstage (the cast is led by Denis O’Hare and Brendan Fraser) and off (the director is Doug Hughes), it’s notable for not much more t…
Whether you agree with his premise or his moral may well determine the extent to which you’re captivated by this play, but no orientation of your own opinion is likely to make you miss…
