1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
The 1963 musical set in a 1930s perfume shop in Budapest has been rapturously revived by the Roundabout Theater Company.
In Mr. Lonergan's play, a narcissistic country music and movie star returns to the Tennessee town where he grew up to start a new life as a simple man.
This Alex Timbers revival includes a bluegrass band and a rogues' gallery of oddball comic performers in this musical based on a Eudora Welty novella.
David Harrower's disturbing drama of criminal love returns in a Broadway staging starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams.
In Anna Ziegler's play, Bobby Steggert plays a character " based on an actual person " who was born male but raised female after a botched circumcision.
This Marco Ramirez play, which takes place in the early 20th century, is set amid the sport of boxing and recreates the racism of the day.
In Richard Nelson's play at the Public Theater, the characters' bereavement is laced with a sense that the world as they know it is coming to an end.
This collage tribute piece celebrates the French poet Arthur Rimbaud as the man who invented downtown as a state of mind.
Anna Ziegler's new play tells the story of a boy who was mutilated in an accident and then raised as a girl.
Kristiana Rae Colón's play at the Flea Theater portrays an unthinkable crime and its origins and aftermath.
In this tuneful production by Lauren Worsham and Kyle Jarrow, friends gather at the start of the new year to retell and play out a fairy tale of their own.
In the play, by Simon McBurney at the Barbican Theater in London, audience members are asked to put on headphones and listen closely.
Clare Barron's play at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn recalls the anguishing mysteries of sex and love during adolescence.
The actor makes his Broadway debut in this one-act play by Eugene O'Neill.
"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "The Master Builder" and "Uncle Vanya" are all studies in the power of rage.
Some unpleasant emotions are at the heart of "Hughie," "Long Day's Journey Into Night," "The Crucible" and "Hold On to Me, Darling."
This revival of the award-winning American gothic play stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris as parents in a dysfunctional Illinois farmhouse.
In this revival, Ms. Smith plays Fanny Brice, the role that sent Barbra Streisand soaring into the stratosphere in the 1960s.
Martin McDonagh and Caryl Churchill's two plays, so different, are united by extreme narrative tension.
This Manhattan Theater Club play depicts a self-worshiping, caustic pupil who intrigues and frustrates his boarding-school teachers.
The company begins a two-season project devoted to the writer, starting with "Drunken With What," which excavates "Mourning Becomes Electra."
Bedlam theater company's version of the Jane Austen novel expands and magnifies Austen's delicate comic worldview without cracking a single teacup.
This immersive play conjures a Florida resort built on nostalgia and losing one's inhibitions.
These two plays " "Tonight With Donny Stixx" and "Dark Vanilla Jungle," playing in repertory at Here " consist of monologues by people who have committed unspeakable crimes.
This play revolves around two high school students and a link to Walt Whitman.
