1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
For her play Fade, which just opened at the Cherry Lane Theatre in a Primary Stages production, Tanya Saracho has constructed a fascinating foundation: When social identity and racial identi…
What's going on inside Hench's head? There's no way to be sure, but boy, do you ever want to find out.
Playwright David Ives has long been adept at finding drama - however small the kernels of it may be - within the deepest comedy.
In the program for her new play at the Atlantic Theater Company's Stage 2 space, Tell Hector I Miss Him, playwright Paola Lázaro references winning the 2011 Arts Entertainment Scholarship…
No one would argue that it's far better to learn about cholera from a computer game than from actually dying from it ...
"Democracy," quipped H.L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
Falling in love is hard enough, but who knew that not falling in love could be such a struggle?
August Wilson, who built his playwriting name on his "Century Cycle" covering the African-American experience during each decade of the 20th century, eventually proved expert at intertwining…
Obsessive behavior is usually treated as pitiable, but why shouldn't what we love"or what we love too much"represent who we are?
There may be no sadder or more sobering experience than getting what you always thought you wanted or needed, only to discover downsides you never imagined possible.
Christmas theatre, like Christmas songs, Christmas movies, and Christmas TV shows, tends to follow a predictably tooth-rotting pattern about bringing people around to the "spirit of the seas…
That New York's MTA subway system is a microcosm of humanity is the closest you'll find to a detectable point - and concept - in In Transit, which just opened at Circle in the Square.
Because so much of stage acting is keeping the small small while also allowing it to appear big, it's easy to forget that you can remove the additional amplification and still get a transfix…
It's a unique characteristic of art that it's capable of being "great" without actually being "good."
Dialogue is the chief building block of theatre for a reason.
When you've landed somewhere you feel you don't belong - or you know you don't belong - everything just seems wrong.
Where better to observe the racing heartbeat of change than the epitome of conformity?
Anxiety, isolation, and depression, the kinds of feelings that crush inward rather than expand outward, do not naturally sing.
There is no shortage of captivating magic to be found in The Illusionists: Turn of the Century, which just opened at the Palace.
As far as I could tell from scouring the Playbill for the new musical A Bronx Tale, which just opened at the Longacre, Disney Theatrical Productions was not involved in its creation.
At least Ride the Cyclone has style.
Love and marriage are part of a long game that's getting longer all the time, if Nicky Silver's new play This Day Forward is to be trusted.
Poor Charity Hope Valentine: so lovely, so talented, so awash in an identity crisis.
It's been tempting, over the course of this long, hyperpoliticized year, and especially during the past (yikes) tumultuous week and a half, to want to check out entirely.
If you're adapting a film to the stage, so the theory goes, you'd better find a way to make it theatrical.
