1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Sutton Foster's Charity is vaguely aware that becoming a doormat for men was a bad career choice in this revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
In delivering his plea to Mike Pence after the show, the Broadway actor Brandon Victor Dixon was also speaking to Donald J. Trump, meeting directness with directness.
Stripped of its cinematic distractions, this Off Broadway adaptation directed by John Doyle comes across as blunt and bland.
This one-man show revolves around a man who has apparently simply dialed a wrong number and then stays on the line to talk. And talk.
Suzan-Lori Parks's phantasmagorical theater piece is a sepulchral parade of images that have distorted and swallowed up the history of African-Americans.
An early work by Ms. Parks, "The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, a.k.a. The Negro Book of the Dead," opens Signature's season.
Richard Nelson's "Women of a Certain Age," Part 3 of a cycle, at the Public Theater, focuses on a family gathering on the night of voting, and what comes next.
Melissa Errico stars in an adaptation of this midcentury musical that includes elements of thievery, racism and whimsy.
In "Kings of War," the director Ivo van Hove adapts five history plays into a conflagration of corruption, factionalism and political viciousness.
Anna Deavere Smith's new performance piece explores the cursed intersection of two American institutions, the school and the prison, in a racially divided nation.
Edgar Oliver's performance piece delves into life's evanescence, from the father he never knew to a cracked curb on the Lower East Side.
Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber star in this adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's 1782 novel full of duplicity and score settling.
Both plays in "Two Class Acts" by A.R. Gurney look at how Hellenic-studies students and instructors explore the effect of changing times on tradition.
Eternity is downright cozy in Daniel Alexander Jones's hearts-and-flowers-themed exploration of life and what lies beyond in this Soho Rep production.
In this gala performance, Mr. Gyllenhaal plays the French painter Georges Seurat at work. It's another musical night to remember at City Center.
Rachel Weisz plays Susan Traherne, the radioactively unhappy center of this play, revived by David Leveaux at the Public Theater 34 years after opening there.
Nathan Lane and a deep cast star in this revival of a 1928 stage classic about journalism, now at the Broadhurst Theater.
A pair of soul mates obliviously advance from the ages of 19 to 64 in Mike Bartlett's play, set in London.
Diane Lane stars in this terminally confused production of Chekhov's play, about a woman who faces a changing reality when she returns to her childhood home.
The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher.
"Letters to a Man" looks at Vaslav Nijinsky in a performance piece from Robert Wilson.
This stupendously entertaining play centers on the comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who have created geriatric alter egos as roommates.
This play from the Mad Ones company would send you bolting for the exit, screaming, if it weren't so funny and unexpectedly touching.
This play, by the Classical Theater of Harlem at 3LD Art & Technology Center, finds Egyptian royalty behaving like divas in the 15th-century B.C.
This program of three short plays by Horton Foote stars the wonderful Hallie Foote, the playwright's daughter, and returns to his fictitious Harrison, Tex.
