1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Facts, John Adams wrote, are stubborn things " if not always as trustworthy as we may like.
Is she the dream, or is it you? It's impossible not to wonder this once the titular star appears in the opening moments of the revival of Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill, which just opened…
Has the high price of theatre tickets got you down? Concerned that you don't get enough bang for your buck? Tired of having to pick just one type of show when you may want something more lay…
Life is a musical-comedy cabaret, old chum, in the Atlantic Theater Company's new revival of The Threepenny Opera at the Linda Gross Theater.
Humans have long recognized the relationship between laughter and health: "laugh through the pain," "I laughed so much, it hurt," and so on.
The odor of dust permeates the air at the Ethel Barrymore well before the action begins in the new revival of A Raisin in the Sun that just opened there.
Late in Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, the title character, Tony, a Napa Valley grape farmer, hears the true first name of his beloved for the first time.
When you take away the black from a black-comedy movie that's being adapted for the stage, you generally end up draining the comedy as well.
It's no great secret that, of the many choices we encounter during our everyday lives, some are monumental, some are miniscule, and it's often all but impossible to tell which are which. So …
There's a reason most musicals that tell a love story " which, let's face it, is most musicals " are structured around external conflicts...
Supertitles? Who needs 'em?
Sure, you've heard the phrase "loud enough to wake the dead," but have you ever seen it musicalized?
That the deepest grief never entirely abates, but rather is internalized and transformed into something less definable (and usually more debilitating), is central to Terrence McNally's Mothe…
One anticipates some assimilation from those who move to the United States, though one would expect it perhaps a bit before the 27th anniversary of arriving in this country.
Fifty-two minutes into Aladdin, Disney's new stage adaptation of its popular 1992 film, the New Amsterdam explodes with magic.
Those who lack them may consider possessions to be effective insulation from life's tragedies, but that's not always the case.
Forget chit-chat about black, white, and grey. It's long been established that nothing is as simple as it appears, and discussions to the contrary are usually academic.
When, toward the end of the new musical Rocky, at the Winter Garden, a television announcer describes what we've just witnessed as "the greatest exhibition of stamina and guts ever seen," it…
It's rare in a world of "Not Another [Insert Genre Here] Movie" movies, but it does happen: A parody of something that's basically a parody itself can be funny on its own terms.
It's said that the devil's greatest trick is convincing people he doesn't exist.
In The Happiest Song Plays Last, the final play in Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes's "Elliot" trilogy that just opened at Second Stage, borders and barricades of both the geographic and emotional pe…
Messiah? Monster? No " magnetic.
If you like your meat pies with a side of anarchy, then you'll love the New York Philharmonic concert of Sweeney Todd that's now being presented at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall.
Who cares about the setting when the soul is what's at stake?
Ever since hitting the scene in 2005, Will Eno has been asking one question with his plays: Does anyone belong anywhere?
