1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
A monster devours your sense of security in this scream-filled Julia Jarcho evisceration of classic horror movies at Abrons Arts Center.
In David Byrne's inert new musical, France's favorite saint storms England with power chords.
Voices are seldom raised in Rachel Bonds's beautifully acted play, and big, confrontational truths mostly remain unspoken.
The Debate Society's leisurely and copiously detailed production contemplates two Chicago World's Fairs, and everything in between.
This whimsical exploration of the world created by the writing of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë gets an alternately intriguing and irritating production.
This musical pushes emotional buttons as it portrays a town's efforts to accommodate travelers whose planes were diverted to a Canadian town after the 9/11 attacks.
The director Sam Gold and his cast, led by an intrepid Sally Field, have deconstructed the Tennessee Williams classic. But don't expect the pieces to be reassembled.
Joshua Harmon's comedy, at the Booth Theater, tells of a gay man's turmoil as he watches wedding bells break up his gang of gal pals.
This musical about a demonic barber could be more penetrating, but still respects the original story's depiction of madness.
Mr. Lipton teams up with Leigh Silverman to bring "The Outer Space" to Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
March brings a set of rivalrous blue-collar workers, a resentful stoker on an ocean liner and, oh yes, one very angry barber.
Contemporary womanhood has its challenges, and this play explores many of them, like sexual harassment, eating disorders, Ophelia complexes and more.
The Theater for a New Audience's revival of Thornton Wilder's apocalyptic comedy feels surprisingly appropriate for a world threatened by climate issues and packed with refugees.
There are echoes of Samuel Beckett in this short, resonant tragicomedy, written by Will Eno and featuring Michael Emerson.
Jake Gyllenhaal and Annaleigh Ashford star in the marvelous revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical, at the newly restored Hudson Theater.
This dark musical by Greg Pierce and John Kander examines the ordeals of a teenager trying to recover from a drugged captivity.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's take on a stark 15th-century morality play includes characters like Stuff, Death and Love.
MartÃn Zimmerman's play, starring Marin Ireland, approaches the subject of American gun violence from a startlingly original perspective.
Fear festers, burrows and blooms in Caryl Churchill's short and wondrous play that plumbs the depths of 21st-century terrors.
Wallace Shawn excavates moral cowardice in an authoritarian age, with Matthew Broderick as our guide.
In this Tracy Letts play, an Everyman suddenly realizes he doesn't believe in God and goes about re-examining all aspects of his life.
This Richard Maxwell production at the Abrons Arts Center could be described as a sugar-free version of the new Hollywood musical.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new play is part of the Signature Theater Company's Residency Five program.
The author Katherine Rundell has repurposed some of Saki's anarchic short stories for a 21st-century theater audience.
Maura Tierney, Kate Valk, Scott Shepherd and the Wooster Group recreate a firestorm of a panel discussion in the timely and time-bending piece.
