1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Presented by the Manhattan Theater Club, Penelope Skinner's account of British family life in a not too distant time bears a disquieting resemblance to today.
David Hare's drama shows Wilde before and after his imprisonment for homosexuality, illustrating love as a force both sacred and profane.
Encores! revives a 1965 romantic work that features music by Richard Rodgers on the wane, and Stephen Sondheim on the rise.
This circus show is in a large, riverside tent erected under the Brooklyn Bridge.
Beneath the rowdy humor, there is always the sense of a desperate emptiness in Richard Bean's comedy about the rhythms of a blue-collar workday.
"A Streetcar Named Desire," directed by Benedict Andrews, is a brave take on a classic play that envelops the audience in a timelessly primeval world.
It shares its name and most of its song list with a landmark musical from 1921, so is it old or new?
The production, starring Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr., features some heavy-weather acting.
Aoife Duffin stars in this story of a rebellious Irish girl, based on the novel of the same name by Eimear McBride.
The settings for these monologues summon feelings of isolation in a crowd: a bus traveling by night through the heartland and the streets of New York.
A musical based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel has buckets of blood and robust hardbodies to spare.
Alice Birch's short, sharp shock of a play has a ferocious energy as it addresses women and their relationships with men, one another and a world in upheaval.
Frank Langella stars as a man wrestling with dementia in this play, a hit in Paris and London.
This work by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Steve Broadnax, has toured globally, bringing difficult discussions of race and justice along with it.
Anne Washburn's play, at Playwrights Horizons, brings old friends together for a funeral and blurs the borders between worlds.
Arthur Miller's endlessly revived historical drama from 1953 suddenly feels like the freshest, scariest play in town.
This stately concert production at City Center, part of Encores!, underscores the agonizing labor that momentous change often involves.
Broadway composers like Tom Kitt and Jason Robert Brown take part in a concert at Symphony Space intended to lodge some new tunes between your ears.
This Tarell Alvin McCraney play centers on family fissures and a woman whose loved ones have gathered for her birthday.
The experimental Irish troupe Pan Pan turns one of modern drama's seminal works inside out.
This Origin Theater production by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, at the Cell in Chelsea, follows a woman at war with herself.
Jackie Sibblies Drury's stylishly contemplative new play is a meditation on the nature of photography.
This new play, performed by the Bats, the Flea Theater's resident company, centers on a wistful 16-year-old surrounded by a feral and violent clan.
Lucy Prebble's play at the Barrow Street Theater centers on a young man and woman who question their emotions during a four-week pharmaceutical trial.
Robert Wilson, as director, designer and actor, reinvents Beckett's play at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, N.J.
