1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
Leave it to Cupid to melt all the hearts he's not able to pierce with his arrows.
It's been said that the kitchen is the most important room in the house - and why not?
It takes way, way too long, but Party People, the combination play and in-your-face musical art installation that just opened at The Public Theater, eventually comes to ask a fascinating que…
If you couldn't stand reading long and boring foreign novels in school, does Dave Malloy ever have a treat for you.
"You should write that down."
Women of a Certain Age, the third and final play in Richard Nelson's series "The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family," is set amid three blighted wastelands.
You might experience a bit of an initial shock at how shocking the Signature Theatre revival of "Master Harold" ...and the boys, which just opened at the Pershing Square Signature Center, is…
Maybe it's just late-election malaise talking, but Missitucky is looking pretty darn nice this time of year.
Few playwrights are as skilled as Lynn Nottage in excavating the souls of the disadvantaged, whether spiritually, emotionally, or economically.
As the Internet moves out of childhood and into its uneasy adolescence, stories about it (or at least that use it as a backdrop) have to change as well.
Few of the people Anna Deavere Smith portrays in her new play at Second Stage, Notes From the Field, could be considered articulate in the traditional sense.
Annoyed Liaisons? Perturbed Liaisons? Mildly Irritated Liaisons? . . .
I'll give it to Andrew Bergh: He sure knows his Rodgers, Hammerstein, Crouse, Lindsay, and Lehman!
There are a lot of potential elements to great theatre: superb writing, and outstanding production, sublime acting. But I would argue that one of the chief things that makes a great show - t…
Sunday in the Park With George, the Pulitzer Prize-winning James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, tells the intertwining stories of two artists born a century apart who both struggle with ma…
The American experience is not (and never has been) exclusively white, even if so many of the narrative genres - and their associated films - linked to it frequently are.
The kind of group prayer you see when the lights go up on Samuel D. Hunter's new play The Harvest, which just opened at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater in an LCT3 production, is like non…
Overanalyzing life is easy, but living it is hard.
It pains me, but I must start this review with words any standup comedian, such as Monica Piper, would probably not want to hear: Piper's new one-woman comedy at New World Stages, Not That J…
Her insanity may be unforgivable, but it's at least understandable.
The Internet may be adept at killing newspapers (or at least putting them on life support), but there's no way it can ever kill The Front Page.
The sound, whether it's audible or technically silent, is deafening throughout the 90 blissful minutes that constitute the Keen Company revival of tick, tick...BOOM! that just opened at the …
Puffs, the wacky new romp by Matt Cox that just opened at the Elektra Theatre, answered a question I didn't realize I had while reading J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series: What of the fourth…
"All you need is love."
To watch Sarah Jones work is to be in awe of her.
