1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Discussing Mr. Friel's work, Ben Brantley reflects on the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.
Elevator Repair Service takes on a script that appears to pose seemingly insurmountable difficulties for a stage director.
Hearing words in a new way is part of the experience of "Reread Another," a 1921 avant-garde play by Gertrude Stein.
Ivo van Hove's doom-steeped production stars Juliette Binoche as the fatally rebellious daughter of the house of Oedipus.
Two people who almost had an affair 20 years ago have another chance in Christopher Shinn's "An Opening in Time" at Hartford Stage.
This deadpan drama by the shock artist Thomas Bradshaw is more of a slice-of-life narrative than his previous ventures into new frontiers of outrage.
A cast of five plays all the roles in Shakespeare's uproarious comedy of romantic confusions.
Megan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan star in a musical about pen pals from Jean Webster's 1912 novel best known as a 1955 movie with Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire.
A humorously made-over Greek chorus is one of the twists in Anne Washburn and Rachel Chavkin's version of Euripides' play.
Ben Brantley reviews "The Beaux' Stratagem" at the National Theater.
Playing Rosalind Franklin, a lone woman among male researchers in London, Ms. Kidman projects relentless determination.
Ben Brantley on two versions of "The Oresteia," part of the current fashion for Greek tragedy on London and New York Stages.
Ben Brantley on two plays by Simon Stephens: "Song from Far Away" and "One Minute."
This romantic love triangle, which played at the Abrons Arts Center, is now playing in Brooklyn.
So many plays and musicals are being revived so soon after their previous runs that it's best to appreciate the opportunity rather than curse the production.
Ben Brantley reviews "The Heresy of Love" and "Jacqueline Wilson's Hetty Feather."
A review of Imelda Staunton in "Gypsy."
A review of Duncan Macmillan's new play "People, Places and Things."
Timberlake Wertenbaker's "Our Country's Good" has been given a big, handsome and somewhat literal-minded revival at the National Theater.
"Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical," with its focus of dreams of the future, has many parallels to "Billy Elliot: The Musical." Then, also in London, there is the Hitler-era "Grand Hotel."
"Bakkhai," "Splendour" and "The Trial" are among the worthy offerings on London stages this summer.
This production in London frames Mr. Cumberbatch like a saint in an old-master painting, reflecting the fervor surrounding his star turn.
David Suchet plays Lady Bracknell in Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest" at the Vaudeville Theater and, across the river, Michelle Terry is the cross-dressing heroine of "As You Like…
In Abi Morgan's "Splendour" at the Donmar Warehouse, Sinead Cusack plays a dictator's wife who drinks shots with her guests at the palace in a revolution-torn city.
A throbbing, infectious production of Euripides' "The Bakkhai" stars Ben Whishaw as Dionysos; and Rory Kinnear plays Joseph K, Kafka's bewildered and shame-stained hero, in "The Trial."
