1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
This New Group production, directed by Cynthia Nixon, portrays a group of gay New Yorkers for whom life was once truly a cabaret.
The German playwright Maria Milisavljevic considers topical questions of European national identities in this play, at Theaterlab.
In this Broadway adaptation of Stephen King's thriller, Bruce Willis infuses his captive bedridden character with a wisecracking stoicism.
From its opening scene, Ivo van Hove's revival of Arthur Miller's play evokes an acute sense of dread and a relentless aura of grim predestination.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, this production of two condensed Shakespeare plays reveals the desperation behind the bravado.
This play at the Signature Theater centers on a group of mostly Jewish detainees in Vichy France who struggle with denial, choices and fundamental questions of identity.
The playwright John Pollono is a deft practitioner of the sort of twist-in-the-tale narratives that are mostly associated with O. Henry and W. Somerset Maugham.
The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's streamlined tale of two sets of separated twins comes to the Public Theater.
Mr. Bacon stars in Keith Reddin's adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's crime story that also became a Hitchcock classic.
Mike Bartlett's prize-winning play comes to Broadway from London with its cast, Shakespearean stylings and free verse intact.
Destiny never releases its grim stranglehold on the characters in this play, based on Émile Zola's novel, which represents Ms. Knightley's Broadway debut.
Stiff drinks and sexy demons in a mazelike setting aren't necessarily our critic's cup of tea. But his attitude is: If you go to immersive theater, you may as well immerse.
Gob Squad's production at the Public Theater stars a group of 9-to-14-year-olds who age into their 70s and beyond onstage.
Four actresses, each taking a turn in the spotlight, portray Elizabeth I, using the queen's own letters, prayers and speeches.
This musical, at the Public Theater, looks at the younger inhabitants of the White House.
Two women of opposing temperaments share a room in a retirement home, in David Lindsay-Abaire's play, from the Manhattan Theater Club.
This solo performance piece by Pat Kinevane at the Irish Arts Center has a freshly risen corpse as its narrator, and she has a story to tell.
The Keen Company's revival, a stage adaptation of Graham Greene's frolicsome 1969 novel, is on Theater Row.
A critic's journey into the politically charged world and productions of the Belarus Free Theater.
The show explores life in the White House for the likes of Amy Carter, Tricia and Julie Nixon, and Susan Ford.
Ms. July, a self-conscious practitioner of self-consciousness, has an improbable gift for turning the initially irritating into the charming.
Nina Arianda and Sam Rockwell tear up the scenery (and each other) in Daniel Aukin's definitive revival of Sam Shepard's drama.
Starring Julie Atlas Muz and Joey Arias, this spooky production blends surreal projections, hoisting harnesses and puppets to depict the 1915 founders of the Abrons Arts Center's playhouse.
This Harold Pinter revival is not an "Old Times" for purists, but it has its pleasures.
This Atlantic Theater Company revival of Caryl Churchill's play is set in the Victorian age (for its first act) and in 1979 (for its second).
