1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Levity walks with heavy feet in the new revival of You Can't Take It With You that just opened at the Longacre.
Marital woes are never tragic for just one couple. In his new stage spin of Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage, which just opened at New York Theatre Workshop, conceiver-director Ivo va…
The sticky sloppiness of man-woman relations has been Neil LaBute’s favorite subject since — well, since forever, pretty much. And as he’s shown with works for the screen and stage, wh…
For the four single roommates in Love Quirks, the new musical that just opened at Theatre 54, Manhattan's dating scene may as well be a war zone.
Two generations of men learn the hard way that there's no coming home again after war in Almost Home, the new play by Walter Anderson that just opened at the Acorn Theatre.
Love Letters could never be written today.
Sometimes a show can be too timely. . . .
The hopelessness really is towering, isn't it? Gaze at the uppermost reaches of the set for the Steppenwolf revival of This Is Our Youth that just opened at the Cort and you'll be drawn into…
Want therapy? Get out of the theater and into a psychologist's office. . . .
Though the title of The Winter's Tale suggests something of a chilly, even sullen, play, that's never actually been true.
When you're hungry or in a hurry (or both), it's easy enough to not give proper respect to restaurant servers, to say nothing of the people who bus the tables.
Walk into the Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre at the Pershing Square Signature Center for Signature's new production of A.R. Gurney's The Wayside Motor Inn, and you're immediately thrust int…
Take The Threepenny Opera, swap out the classically idiosyncratic Kurt Weill"Bertolt Brecht score for one steeped in the American musical comedy tradition, and then drench the entire thing i…
Adolescence is a messy, uncertain, and confusing time for many people, and at evoking those particular feelings, Caroline Prugh's new play at the Hartley House, It's Only Kickball, Stupid, i…
If one were exceedingly generous, one could consider the play Poor Behavior a psychological romantic mystery.
No one knows you quite the way a sibling does.
In the grand roster of significant eternal warfare, "man versus woman" surely must be at the top of the list. But likely not too far behind is "Arab versus Jew," which encapsulates only slig…
Youthful fantasies may be a vital part of growing up, but just as with the influence of teachers, parents, and friends, their effects can linger " and do considerable damage " once you've gr…
To dwell too much, too quickly, on the many, many things wrong with the musical titled Revolution in the Elbow of Ragnar Agnarsson Furniture Painter, which just opened at the Minetta Lane Th…
You've heard of seduction in a bar, but... an abortion clinic?
For a god, he's certainly not in control, is he?
For a man burdened with so many crippling problems, Walter Washington certainly is easygoing.
Is there much point in discussing the content of Laura Eason's play Sex With Strangers, which just opened at Second Stage?
Women who are trapped in loveless marriages because of the financial security their husbands provide may no longer seem like a scintillating, or even relevant, topic for a play.
For a generation now, Les Misérables has been providing young women (especially belters) with choice material, but it wouldn't really be correct to say it's a woman's show.
