1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Try to forget about the millennia of cultural conditioning to the contrary: Adultery isn't really such a serious thing.
Why should existential angst be confined to the Russians?
An unmistakable melancholy has crept into John Kander's work over recent years, gently elbowing out the razzle-dazzle cynicism that defined the music he wrote for many of his career-defining…
" a unique and stunning show "
"He said, she said" is bad enough when it's just between ordinary men and women " but what if another layer of power is involved?
No one embodies the concept of "survivor" quite the way Juno Boyle does.
Racial tensions, courtroom intrigue, the little guy battling helplessly against the leviathan of the State... John Grisham's 1989 legal thriller has it all.
If the last couple of weeks have proven anything in the United States, it's that you can indeed fight city hall " or the government, as the case may be.
Verona just got a lot more swank. Well, maybe it's Verona. It could be anywhere, actually " it's kind of hard to tell.
How annoyed are you willing to make yourself if you're guaranteed a spectacular payoff?
Maybe they should have called it Janis and Friends? . . .
If your family is the squabbling type, you might not cherish big holiday dinners.
So triumphant is the sensory-deprivation nature of Anthem ... the tiniest of changes land with the most breath-robbing force. A single, unexpected lighting cue sends your imagination soaring.
There can be a big difference between "fantastical" and "fantastic."
Even if watching a slow-motion train wreck makes future accidents less likely, it hardly matters in the horror of the moment. . . .
Even monsters can be irresistible. . . .
Is memory friend or foe? Helpful or horrifying? Edifying or debilitating? The answer, as with so many things, depends on context.
Hate legalese? Not sure lawyers ever say what they mean? Don't trust courts to get the most basic things right?
"For never was a tale of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo." I beg to differ. . . .
The only original thing about Ethan Coen's new play, Women or Nothing, which just opened at the Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, is how unoriginal it is.
Matthew Murray takes a look at Strange Rain, part of the New York International Fringe Festival.
The fusion of Jewish and African-American influences in that melting pot of melting pots, New York City, is in no small part responsible for the unique artistic explosion of musical theatre.
Love's Labour's Lost is one of the most unabashedly entertaining musicals top open yet this year. . . .
In the new musical First Date, which just opened at the Longacre, Zachary Levi makes his Broadway debut by delivering the kind of sparkling star turn most enjoyable but unremarkable outings …
Channel surfing can lead you to strange places if you don't know the entertainment waters you're navigating.
