1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
The production of "Gatz" has stirred memories of other shows adapted from well-known literary works. And it has made me appreciate how hard it is to capture a novel's sensibility on stage.
Why good productions of Shakespeare and Pinter require actors to speak the same language.
Fans of Peter Nichols, one of the finest and most underrated British dramatists of the second half of the 20th century, will definitely find elements to savor in “Lingua Franca.ȁ…
Why good productions of Shakespeare and Pinter require actors to speak the same language.
Sometimes a familiar line or phrase can be heard in new ways thanks to an actor’s unexpected interpretation.
Is drag as a theatrical phenomenon doomed to extinction?
Yale Repertory mounts a “Notes From Underground” for the Internet age.
How do you feel about the art of flying as part of the art of theater?
“Angels in America” returns for a revival by the Signature Theater Company in a production that feels cozier, more accessible and less startling than it did when it opened in N…
“Gatz,” a work of singular imagination and intelligence, chronicles one reader’s gradual but unconditional seduction by a single, ravishing novel.
John Guare’s historical comedy “Free Man of Color,” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, tosses up bright balls of allusion and prays they’ll land in a coherent patter…
“The Sun Also Rises (The Select),” Elevator Repair Service’s entertaining if slightly under-par adaptation of Hemingway’s boozy novel, is part of the Philadelphia…
“Finishing the Hat,” a self-portrait of Stephen Sondheim as an obsessive lyricist, is about a dynamic, unending process: it’s about finishing, not having finished.
David Mamet’s 1977 play, “A Life in the Theatre,” opened in an ill-advised Broadway revival starring Patrick Stewart and T. R. Knight.
Why some plays are better scaled for Off Broadway than on.
Looked upon as a theater workshop inhabited by some very brave and talented souls, Ivo van Hove’s production of “The Little Foxes” bears definite dividends.
Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Rebecca Hall have taken to the London stage and audiences are lining up.
In scenic design these days, the biggest thing in the theater is film - or to be precise, digital projections.
More than perhaps any other Broadway costume designer of the past half century, she understood that for a certain kind of show, nothing less than all-out dazzle would do.
When something goes wrong during a show, the illusion of reality that has been created on stage can fall apart before your eyes.
A revival of “That Championship Season” has Kiefer Sutherland making his Broadway debut.
“Peter and the Starcatcher” brings to the stage Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson’s popular prequel to “Peter Pan.”
Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” returns, the “South Park” team tries Broadway, and Chris Rock turns up in a play.
In The Memory Show, the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.
Broadway this season is the land of second chances for celebrities looking to reignite their careers and for plays that failed miserably in their first outings.
