All stories by Matthew Murray on BroadwayStars

Thursday, May 28, 2015

CAGNEY - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

If all a musical has going for it are its spine-tingling songs, there are worse things.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:32PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, May 26, 2015

THE FLICK - Talkin' Broadway's Review by Matthew Murray

It's difficult to name a more potent theatrical partnership in the current New York theatre than that of Annie Baker and Sam Gold. ...

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:11PM[SHARE]
Monday, May 25, 2015

Saving Throw Versus Love and Get Rich Cheating by Matthew Murray

Larry Brenner's comedy soars as long as it embraces the geeks who are its subjects, and Jeff Kreisler's mock self-help seminar is a smart and funny tribute to large-scale greed.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Platinum - Review by Matthew Murray

The only thing it conclusively proves is that some shows fail for very good reasons.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Heterosexuals - Review by Matthew Murray

When the most memorable thing about a play that deals exclusively with sex is one speech delivered by one actress, there is either something very right with the actress or something very wro…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Me, Myself & I by Matthew Murray

The play and production are sometimes raw and sometimes burnt, and rarely taste just right.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Bottom Of The World by Matthew Murray

Whether the play is suffering from a shortage of darkness or light may be open for debate, but you never feel certain that Thurber knows which lamps should be off or on.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

The Divine Sister by Matthew Murray

No, Charles Busch isn’t God. But as the Mother Superior in his new comedy, The Divine Sister, which just opened at the SoHo Playhouse, he may be the next best thing.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

The Pitmen Painters by Matthew Murray

It is, in every conceivable way, better than Billy Elliot — and, until its last two or three scenes, pretty darn good in its own right.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Tigers Be Still by Matthew Murray

Rosenstock has provided a thoughtful an tightly written play, but one that’s laden with few subtleties or imagination-provoking details; in other words, she leaves nothing to dramatic …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Time Stands Still by Matthew Murray

Through careful adjustments and retooling, Sullivan and his company have gone even further than once they did in showing how being so trapped can in fact sometimes set you free.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

A Life in the Theatre by Matthew Murray

As well executed as this play and production often are, the effect is not equivalent to a top-flight Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, or Race that reveals Mamet at his caustic, unpredict…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson by Matthew Murray

The Seventh President of the United States is making things look rather more effortful at the Bernard B. Jacobs than he did during his previous terms Off-Broadway.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

La Bête by Matthew Murray

It takes a long time for La Bête, the 1991 David Hirson play currently being revived at The Music Box, to get to its real point, but when it does it arrives with the force of last month's…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

The Language Archive by Matthew Murray

How often does it happen that a play’s best moments are those that aren’t spoken, even though its dialogue is a tour de force? Julia Cho achieves this feat in her remarkable new …

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Lombardi by Matthew Murray

That Lombardi the play succeeds with so little actual football content shows how much deeper it runs as a dramatic work, and that it - like its subject - can't and shouldn't be confined just…

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Driving Miss Daisy by Matthew Murray

Without the right Daisy blossoming at its center, Uhry’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play greatly lacks drive.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

Angels in America by Matthew Murray

Angels in America may be a great play, but it’s not an especially good one.

SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:58PM[SHARE]

All that Chat

2025-2026 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off