1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Lindsey Ferrentino's insightful but uneven new play sends three adult siblings on a road trip to their late parents' house.
A grand return for Tony Kushner's "Angels," a raw reworking of "Yerma" and a South African docudrama about bringing down a statue " all this and Glenda Jackson, too!
Darian Dauchan's one-android performance piece uses rap, dance and colored lights to find "the connection between species."
JC Lee's undercooked play casts the formidable Jayne Houdyshell as an eminent professor swimming in the shark pool of academia.
This divinely wrought, beautifully sung New Group production finds compassion within a very relevant satire.
After winning two Oscars, she stopped acting for decades to fight Thatcherism. Now, at 81, she's tackling an Edward Albee classic. But she insists, "I lead a very dull life."
Aleshea Harris's sensational new play, at Soho Rep, sends twin sisters into a wild, wild West on a bloody mission of vengeance.
A rowdy Irish revue from the Dubin-based troupe Thisispopbaby asks the world to make love, not war, and dance, dance, dance.
Ms. Maxwell, who has died at 61, transmitted an uncommon intelligence and love of craft found only in great theater performers.
A Morgan Library & Museum exhibition of the playwright's letters and manuscripts showcases the hungers that drove and derailed him.
In this play directed by Thomas Ostermeier and starring Nina Hoss, a French philosopher ponders the move to the right in blue-collar France.
This London import shows the director and writer of "Three Billboards" still utterly at home in the (dark) shadows of the stage.
With her first play in nearly a decade, the 86-year-old playwright reminds audiences of her singular vision.
Michael Kahn's production for the Shakespeare Theater Company provides Elsinore with a new arsenal that includes smartphones and surveillance cameras.
The Mad Ones' portrait of a group of teachers in a purgatorial staff meeting finds the entertainment factor in endless irritation
In the bleak and buoyant "Paradiso," a world beyond human existence is summoned with stark sentimentality and endless eloquence.
Enda Walsh's wild cosmic farce, in which two men act out the life of a fantasy village, finds the aching emptiness in words, words, words
In this multimedia, multidimensional performance piece, the boundaries of race, gender and ethnicity blur into a shifting pageant of identity.
For the new year, productions that aim to shake up your senses and challenge your assumptions. Plus: '80s jargon and hair.
This harrowing and exhilarating revival, featuring an inexhaustible cast of two, summons the agonies and ecstasies of being 17 in a blighted Irish town.
The newcomer Jamael Westman steps out as a fully formed star in the title role of the triumphant London production of "Hamilton."
In a creative master stroke, this National Theater adaptation of the Disney film uses oversized puppets to play adults, who tower over the title figure.
In Claire van Kampen's strange, enchanting "Farinelli and the King," from Shakespeare's Globe in London, music hath charms to spare.
Fiasco Theater's agreeable production of a much-performed play finds the clarity in a comedy of confusion.
Geoff Sobelle's hallucinatory performance piece at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is set in a house that comes to life before your eyes.
