1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Though they based their New York Musical Theatre Festival entry on a profound idea, Frank Ceruzzi, Blake J. Harris, and Trent Jeffords for some reason want you to think WikiMusical is shallo…
If you need a charismatic leading lady who's at once lovable and caustic, seeming as prone to beat you senseless as to give you her life savings, why wouldn't you cast Lynne Wintersteller?
No one would ever confuse Jessy Brouillard's musical Deployed, which is playing through Tuesday as part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival, with Les Misérables.
Once upon a time, jukebox and songwriter-showcase musicals didn't pretend to be much more than they are.
There's more to music " and to life " than sounding perfect.
Rachel Dunham may not look much like Oprah Winfrey, but from the instant she opens her mouth at the start of the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Orpahfication, she sure sound…
Subtlety is not typically a feature of Germany-in-World-War-II properties; when Cabaret (the original, thank you, not the Sam Mendes rethink) is about as close as you can get in terms of the…
Disney's animated movie musical Frozen had barely begun its white-hot life when The Snow Queen, based on exactly the same Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, opened at San Jose Repertory The…
Fluffy is not always a bad thing.
Love at first sight is as cliché and useless as storytelling can get, right? Maybe.
The beauty and magic of both the Yucatán and the wild possibilities of romance charge the impressively conceived musical The Mapmaker's Opera, which plays its final performance today as p…
Who was the last famous Miss America? When's the last time you even watched the telecast?
You think you know the depths to which men and women will sink to get what they want from each other? Think again.
It was, perhaps, the most important achievement in scientific history: when, for the first time, the line between humanity and deity was blurred beyond recognition.
There are as many stories about the exact instant at which children become adults as there are adults.
It can't be easy to write a musical about poverty and hopelessness that doesn't leave you wanting to slit your wrists on the way out of the theater, but with Somewhere With You, playing thro…
The rat race is looking pretty well run at Wayra, the new spectacular from the creators of De La Guarda and Fuerza Bruta that just opened at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
Maybe the devil should be in the details rather than sitting at the keyboard?
Music's ability to articulate the world around us is well documented, but it can be easy to forget the deeper potential it carries.
Where's the ticking?
Tired of overly slick, sanitized, and synthetic musicals that don't deliver feelings when "feelings" will do?
Maybe the sweeping societal changes of the 1960s helped matters, but women have never had it easy.
Benedick and Beatrice, the constantly bickering almost-and-eventual lovers at the center of Much Ado About Nothing, are adept at using their tart tongues for an unexpected kind of foreplay.
When it comes to stories about major religious figures, which is truer, the fact or the fiction?
Charm, properly applied, can lighten the gloomiest evening.
