1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Even the biggest of men can seem small in the right " or wrong " circumstances.
What if you were given carte blanche to live out your wildest dreams on someone else's dime, and promised that you'd attain your loftiest career goals if you followed through?
When history comes alive (something it seldom does) in Hamilton, which just opened at The Public Theater, it tends to do so on the wave of a yawn.
Of all potential terrors, surely the unknown must be the most unsettling.
Style isn't always enough to sell a half-cooked play, but it can really help.
The sheer number of hot-button issues touched upon in The Events, the intriguing but arid play by David Grieg that just opened at New York Theatre Workshop, is staggering.
Can paper feel pain? As strange as that question may sound, it has real implications for the three (human) characters in Rajiv Joseph's 2008 play Animals Out of Paper.
Walter Washington may be loaded down with problems, but it's tough not to want to be him.
"Post-racial" isn't a state of mind in Rasheeda Speaking " it's a state of confusion.
You "fall" for someone just as you "fall" ill.
Many voices " including, on more than one occasion, mine " have lamented the musical's increasing inability to simultaneously engage the brain and the heart, to transcend the limitations of …
Culture clashes rarely get more unusual than they do in Texas in Paris, which just opened at the York Theatre at St. Peter's.
When the curtain goes up on the new Encores! concert of Lady, Be Good, which is playing at City Center through Sunday, the particular hue lighting the rear cyclorama is no accident.
The eternally simmering conflict in the Middle East has inspired much drama, both onstage and off, over the question of how Americans and their enemies deal with each other.
No one will ever mistake Taylor Schilling for stodgy.
Underestimate darkness at your own peril.
A story may be a powerful thing, but the way it's told often has an even greater impact.
Love and frustration echo down " and over, under, and across " the years in Hugh Leonard's 1978 play Da
The greatest strength of I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard, the new play by Halley Feiffer that just opened at Atlantic Stage 2, is also its greatest weakness: It's impossible to tell whether o…
Thanks to Wicked, L. Frank Baum has been having a serious post-death resurgence " well, sort of.
Are you still keeping your New Year's resolution to eat healthier? If so, congratulations.
The could-have-beens. The should-have-beens. The shouldn't-have-beens. The almost-but-not-quites. The never-weres.
A fragile façade of perfection is both the key element and the condemning feature of Eric Parness's production of Victor L. Cahn's new play Villainous Company, which just opened at the Cl…
It's rarely a plus for a theatrical production to lose fireworks, but that occurrence has given a comfortable nudge to You Can't Take It With You. When Scott Ellis's revival of George S. Kau…
Lament the overpoliticization of life in the 21st century all you like " it could always be (and has frequently been) worse.
