1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
In The Mound Builders, the 1975 Lanford Wilson play that Signature Theatre Company is now presenting, a team of archaeologists race against time to sift through ancient piles of earthen refu…
Disaffection is rarely as affecting, or as funny, as it is in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.
That hair, that face, that voice...
Like heaven and hell, purgatory can look like many things. But who would have expected it to so closely resemble a movie theater?
Had Lorraine Hansberry and August Wilson collaborated on a play, the resulting work might have looked a lot like Detroit '67.
For all the fretting about emotional clarity it contains, one can't help but wish that Neva contained a bit more of it....
Cognitive dissonance overcomes you early on, and with an enveloping embrace, at Hit the Wall....
Who says that making history is always exciting?
Promise is not always everything it's cracked up to be....
Could it be the real problem with the world is a lack of danger?
Time has been considerably kinder to Bill Irwin and David Shiner than it has to vaudeville....
"Impossible things are happening every day" sing two women deep in the first act of Cinderella, which just opened at the Broadway " and they have no idea how correct they are....
When a show's presentation is completely at odds with its title, something is desperately wrong. Such is the case with the Classic Stage Company's fiercely frigid revival of Passion....
In case you've forgotten about the physics-defying ability great stars have for imposing weight on the weightless, Jesse Eisenberg's new play at the Cherry Lane Theatre, The Revisionist, pro…
In most plays, the words "I've worked very hard to get here" would not resonate with wrenching emotional force....
The confluence of art and practicality is on display in the Signature Theatre Company's revival of The Dance and the Railroad before a single word is spoken.
He says? She says? Who cares? . . .
The title of the 1961 musical Donnybrook! may be lyrical, but it doesn't refer to a person or place magical enough to croon about. . . .
Despair, if you must, about the state of discourse in all aspects of contemporary society. But rest assured that language, in all its brilliant and bloody glory, is the focus of passionate a…
Think you know the whos, whats, and whys of American race relations in the north in the 1950s? Think again.
A revival of a revival typically faces the "copy of a copy" problem; after all, maintaining robust detail across generations of imitations is not easy.
Barry Manilow unquestionably had many reasons to begin his new concert at the St. James, appropriately titled Manilow on Broadway, with his 1975 hit "It's a Miracle."
If it accomplishes nothing else, Martin Moran's new one-man show All the Rage addresses an issue that's been burning in the hearts and minds of intrepid confessional theatregoers for nearly …
The rags-to-riches-to-rags inspirational sports flick finds wry theatrical form in The Jammer, Rolin Jones's new play at the Atlantic Theater Company's Atlantic Stage 2 space.
It's one thing for a play to need most of its running time to reveal all its secrets, but quite another if it waits almost as long to make even a scintilla of sense. . . .
