1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
"I'm not a rain person, I'm a sun person," sings Sara Jane, the young woman at the center of Victor Lodato and Polly Pen's musical Arlington, and that declaration could not be more true.
Creativity has never been a problem for Sarah Ruhl, but boy, concision sure has been.
To explain why Craig Lucas's new traumatic comedy at the Cherry Lane Theatre bears the title Ode to Joy would give away the whole game.
Why all the dancing, you may wonder, ornamenting an otherwise earthbound story about the king of cinematic martial arts?
It's a time-honored theatrical tactic ...
Love and Information more than lives up to its title.
The good news is that, even given that pedigree, the show is considerably better than you may expect. . . .
Let's clear up one thing, straight off: The Chocolate Show!, the new musical at the 47th Street Theatre, is about chocolate. . . .
Don't expect that what looks like a healthy marriage from the outside, but isn't, is necessarily more identifiable as a union in peril when examined up close.
"The majority of people in this room don't know your references!"
If you love the New York Yankees " and yes, I mean love, not merely like " then nothing will extinguish at least a passing interest in Bronx Bombers, the play about the legendary baseball te…
However good they may be, actors can do everything right and still be wrong for their roles.
How do they keep the snow on the stage?
Even shock shtick only goes so far.
Disney musicals have frequently been accused of being little more than cartoons dancing onstage, but compared to a real example of the genre they don't hold an LED-powered flashlight.
Everyone's for sale, argues the new play Stop Hitting Yourself " life is merely a negotiation about the price.
How lonely can you be when your lifelong best friend (and, depending on your definition, longest-lasting fling) lives right next door?
Okay, so it quite doesn't leave you breathless
Ever since its 1968 Broadway bow, Joe Orton's play Loot has been tough to love in this country.
Can the most musical show in town be an entirely spoken play?
Neither the title of Chuck Blasius's new play at the Hudson Guild Theatre, I Could Say More, nor its contents infers the concept of any vital information being withheld.
Well before she moves to the suburbs in Act II, you'll be calling the lead character of Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, which just opened at the Stephen Sondheim, "Jersey Girl."...
If the holidays for you mean endless communing with friends and family about either things you already know or that ultimately don't matter beyond the boundary of your dinner table, Handle W…
You can take the playwright away from the spirits, but you can't take the spirits away from the playwright.
Cole Porter has always been associated with the height of Broadway sophistication; in the 1920s and '30s, no one typified the martini-Manhattan aesthetic better than he did.
