1,084 stories by "Matthew Murray"
If laughter really is the best medicine, the afflicted looking for the next, best miracle cure are well advised to stay away from the Lucille Lortel Theatre. ...
Lovers of literature rightly treasure the works of James Joyce ....
Six thousand years is a pretty long run, so who can blame the Powers That Be for calling in a replacement? Wait, sorry, He is the Powers That Be, so... Oh, forget it....
His (superb) Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist from last year, Gloria, notwithstanding, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's works are among the most compelling that new playwrights are producing about …
David Huntington has a problem: He doesn't know when he is.
It's an unusual"but wonderful"conceit of the theatre that a blatant falsehood often leads to a deeper truth....
East-West relations have just improved a lot on Broadway.
The title of Friend Art, the play by Sofia Alvarez that just opened at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre as part of the Second Stage Theatre Uptown series, refers in large part to the type of work y…
In Passing Strange, the 2007 Off-Broadway musical (that moved to Broadway the following year), Stew, who coauthored the show with Heidi Rodewald, told the story of a young black man several …
On paper, Paramour sounds like a billion-dollar idea.
At one time or another, we've all had our minds play tricks on us. But how often does someone else's mind play tricks on us?
You're looking down in judgment. You're joined by a couple of hundred other tut-tutters whose opinions are just as set in stone as yours are, but without whom you can't make the decision....
What's the best way to celebrate a milestone birthday? Why, with a show packed with loss, decay, and death, of course! Party down!
The title character of Dear Evan Hansen, the gorgeous, affecting, and wayward new musical that just opened at Second Stage, is caught in a predicament that that would vex someone much older …
Theatrical history does not come alive in Shuffle Along, or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed - and that's a good thing.
When theatre folk want to mock either the explosion of off-color language in the theatre or those "puritanical" souls who fret about such things, their lead go-to guy for the past few decade…
Even a small storm can be devastating.
Where do you stand in the ongoing battle between "timely" and "timeless"?
It's been a heavy season of Broadway plays: Blackbird, The Crucible, Eclipsed, The Father, The Humans, and Long Day's Journey Into Night - and those are just the ones that are currently runn…
As much as we'd all love to believe we're above petty gossip, that we've moved beyond the world where every social faux pas rates a clucking tongue and agitated whispers from our neighbors, …
Sensory and emotional overload - to say nothing of mere engagement - are rare occurrences these days at the Brooks Atkinson, where the new musical Waitress just opened, but when they hit, th…
Can a theatre piece be too true to life? That's the implicit question beneath Cate Ryan's new work, In the Secret Sea, which just opened at the Beckett Theatre. . . .
The energy is unmistakable. It's genuine electricity, not the faux stuff, of the kind only a succinct, unique work of art can create.
Although the Scottish seashore is the setting for Sharman Macdonald's When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, it's waves of another kind other than salt water that most clearly inform …
The walls are decrepit. The cinder-block walls look ancient. The flickering fluorescent lighting doesn't really illuminate anything - at least not anything worth looking at.
