1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Andrew Scott's portrayal in a London production of "Hamlet" almost banishes other performances from memory.
This exuberant musical out of Toronto, adapted from the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, presents an all-souls hootenanny.
Sam Gold's funny and heartbreaking production treats Shakespeare's daunting masterpiece with disarming familiarity.
A British theater troupe considers the uses and abuses of psychological experimentation in "Opening Skinner's Box."
Dominique Morisseau's new play at Lincoln Center plunges us into the fatalistic worldview of the mother of an African-American teenager.
Dominique Morisseau is one of the theater's most penetrating voices. In her latest play, she focuses on issues of class and education.
An often irritating British-born adaptation of George Orwell's novel suggests that all facts are alternative.
In this impeccably realized play by Abe Koogler, four mismatched characters reach out to each other in a New Mexico desertscape.
Third Rail Projects turns the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center into a haunted house of theatrical ego.
A.R. Gurney's passion for theater spilled over the edges of his work, from "The Dining Room" through "Love Letters"
Kirsten Childs's musical at Playwrights Horizons is a picaresque tale about a young woman and her unusual protector.
In James Ijames's play "Kill Move Paradise," four young black men try " and fail " to understand how and why they died.
In Alex Borinsky's "Of Government," life keeps taking the most unexpected turns for a group of eccentric women.
An actor and a playwright mesh seamlessly in Christina Masciotti's "Raw Bacon From Poland," starring Joel Perez as a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Rebecca Hall demonstrates why she's the master of the dark mood in Clare Lizzimore's bleak play
Red Bull Theater's rollicking production of this Gogol play finds the cathartic value of satirizing bad behavior.
June brings a comedy for those who prefer to be weirded-out; a show for theatergoers with itchy feet; and Kevin Spacey in the role of Clarence Darrow.
The cast of a new adaptation has such masters of mayhem as Michael Urie, Arnie Burton, Stephen DeRosa, Michael McGrath and Mary Testa.
In this reimagined version of Shakespeare's tragedy, the Prince of Denmark becomes the Prince of Persia.
With the beautifully performed but overplotted "Whirligig," Hamish Linklater considers the forms and consequences of addiction.
Gary Owen's one-character play, starring a dynamic Sophie Melville, is a portrait of a contemporary human firestorm.
This London stage and television star gets inside your head during his enthralling, baffling one-mentalist show.
A revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's bio-drama portrays a woman whose form was her fortune, and ruin.
Some of this season's biggest West End hits are devoted to the blurring of the marital and the martial.
In the drama "Arlington" and the installation "Rooms," the Irish playwright Enda Walsh conjures a subversive throng of unreliable narrators.
