1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
If this all sounds directionless and underdeveloped... well, it is.
Paul Alexander’s revival of Deane and Balderston’s version, which just opened at the Little Shubert, is utterly bloodless.
Judgmental is as judgmental does in In the Wake, Lisa Kron’s not-so-sweeping sideswipe at blind spots both personal and political, which just opened at The Public Theater.
How often does it happen that a play’s best moments are those that aren’t spoken, even though its dialogue is a tour de force? Julia Cho achieves this feat in her remarkable new …
The Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures, Inc. production playing at the Al Hirschfeld through January 2 looks intended, from start to finish, as staunch support for the 2003 holiday hit, but is em…
Rosenstock has provided a thoughtful an tightly written play, but one that’s laden with few subtleties or imagination-provoking details; in other words, she leaves nothing to dramatic …
As well executed as this play and production often are, the effect is not equivalent to a top-flight Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, or Race that reveals Mamet at his caustic, unpredict…
Angels in America may be a great play, but it’s not an especially good one.
Guare has constructed a dazzling series of moments that Wolfe and his team have given vibrant life. But along the way, Guare has managed to say nothing of consequence, settling instead for p…
Nathan Louis Jackson’s biggest achievement with his new play When I Come to Die, which Lincoln Center is producing at the Duke on 42nd Street as part of its LCT3 program, is that he ca…
That Lombardi the play succeeds with so little actual football content shows how much deeper it runs as a dramatic work, and that it - like its subject - can't and shouldn't be confined just…
If all history classes were as much fun as Long Story Short, Colin Quinn’s new show at the Helen Hayes, high school and college would be far more cheery than dreary.
By luck or by pluck, Helm created a marvelous tapestry of humanity that presented complete strangers in ways that made them feel familiar and important — and more than a little like th…
Decorum may be vanishing from the everyday world in which we live, but it’s alive and well at the American Airlines.
It could be a much stronger look at the intersection of Hollywood, Washington D.C., and a fractured family unit if it didn't take the easy way out.
For a play that’s been haunted for over 400 years by its own debatable attitudes toward race and religion, this treatment of its underlying questions is a stunning reversal — and…
Many real plays and musicals out there, in New York and elsewhere, treat their audiences with more respect and intelligence than this one sees fit, and are much better suited for members of …
