1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Richard Greenberg juxtaposes a generational then and now to consider how little we know about the lives that shape our own.
This final work in Dominique Morisseau's Detroit trilogy is a deeply moral and deeply American play, with compassion for people trapped by circumstances.
Banana Bag & Bodice's new production at the Bushwick Starr owes a debt to Beckett but is exuberantly American.
Though best known for the "Die Hard" and "Harry Potter" movies, he was even more compelling as a serpentine seducer onstage.
The one-man play, by Chris Thorpe, looks at confirmation bias, and tries to make the audience truly consider another person's competing viewpoint.
Mr. Oluo and a team of performers manage to be expansive and engaging in this musical memoir at the Public Theater.
Frank Boyd plays a hard-core music obsessive in this piece, staged as if it were a live radio show at the Coil Festival.
In this play, at La MaMa Downstairs, Silvia Calderoni takes on many guises and expounds on the inadequacy of our vocabulary.
This play, by Kaneza Schaal, explores the act of mourning. It is part of the Coil festival.
This show from France, part of the Under the Radar Festival, reinvents a creation myth, tracing the evolution of human consciousness.
Silvia Calderoni, a longtime member of this boundary-defying international theater company, examines gender in an autobiographical show.
This Broadway show's latest star plays a cabaret drag artist with broad, wholesome appeal.
Mr. Lee, who stepped in as His Majesty in September, invests his character with a wit and poignancy and an electric attraction to Kelli O'Hara's Anna.
With help from the singer Sheryl Crow and the director Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson has made a musical of his 1982 buddy film that promotes its female roles.
This play, written by Jordan Harrison and directed by Anne Kauffman, centers on an 85-year-old woman who gets help from a re-creation of her dead husband.
Ms. Hoffman, in the role Carol Burnett originated in 1959, is a vocal slapstick artist of both speech and song, shifting registers and styles with madcap virtuosity.
Nick Kroll and John Mulaney don't so much portray their characters Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them.
Under John Doyle's direction, this revival of the musical based on Alice Walker's novel forgoes sumptuousness in favor of vivid character development.
The actress, who made her Broadway debut in 1952, will star in the play at Playwrights Horizons.
Michael C. Hall stars in Ivo van Hove's New York Theater Workshop production of this sequel to "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
Starring a bouncing Super Ball of energy named Alex Brightman, this is Andrew Lloyd Webber's friskiest musical in decades.
No play opening on Broadway this fall has had a more fraught back story, though star power always guaranteed a commercial slam dunk.
John Jesurun's multimedia production at at La MaMa, a work in progress since the late '90s, views soap-opera conventions through a hallucinatory lens.
Mr. Muñoz brings a sexiness to his portrayal of Alexander Hamilton in this musical.
Eric Tucker's Bedlam theater troupe performs this show from Steven Sater and Burt Bacharach at the New Ohio Theater.
