1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
In this musical, Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole riff on the beauty market rivalry between Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein.
Secrets are revealed " perhaps your own " in this production, starring Daniel Radcliffe, at the Public Theater. It's a magic show for the online age.
J.T. Rogers revisits the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization, creating personal catharsis and illumination from an international drama.
The series of short plays, written in 1917, have a macabre tone, unfolding as a bright catalog of carnage and vivisection.
This teeming revival of Elizabeth Swados's 1978 musical melds a pack of 25 young actors into one vital, desperate voice.
This absurdist spoof explores notions of masculinity in a Wild West saloon, without its cast cracking up. The audience needn't worry about the same.
Mr. Houghton started Signature in 1991, devoting each season to the work of a single dramatist. A cancer diagnosis has led him to resign.
This playful show masterfully provides a multidimensional portrait of a city in perpetual upheaval and a man who is nearly crushed by it.
Tina Packer, who is directing the play for Shakespeare & Company, tackles a work in which, she says, each character is "racist and sexist."
A comic strip format is among the delights of this drama, part of the Summerworks festival of new plays by Clubbed Thumb at the Wild Project.
"Hero's Welcome" and "Confusions" run in repertory at 59E59 Theater.
Janet McTeer plays one disturbed dude in Phyllida Lloyd's all-woman production for Shakespeare in the Park.
The play, by Adam Rapp at Atlantic Stage 2, finds William Apps as an awkward man wrestling with anxiety.
Matthew Broderick is a man haunted by his wife's ghost and seeking help from a therapist whose life eerily mirrors his own in Conor McPherson's play.
A chosen couple, the house, and a little experiment, in this play by Philip Ridley, at 59E59 Theaters.
This play depicts the scabrous wit of a woman and a man who get to know each other when their cancer-afflicted mothers share a hospital room.
This play at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater conjures a fractious family in a hospital setting, a limbo populated by apes, and a wartime romance.
The experimental playwright Julia Jarcho sets out to spoof "Charlie's Angels" with listlessness.
Philip Ridley's juicy little thriller starts previews this week at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival.
John Doyle has done his imaginative best to tame, through shrinkage, one of the great, shape-shifting monsters of world theater.
Theater for a New Audience has paired these two suspenseful dramas in repertory through June 12 at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in Brooklyn.
This Nick Payne play uses 21 characters to pursue the elusive knowledge of how the mind works.
The actresses who replaced Jennifer Hudson in "The Color Purple" and Kelli O'Hara in "The King and I" brought a new feistiness to the roles.
The collection of three short vintage works at the Pershing Square Signature Theater includes Edward Albee's "The Sandbox."
William Francis Hoffman's play at Rattlesticks Playwrights explores family bonds and inadequacies as the central characters deal with their situation in rural Illinois.
