1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Ms. Fleming, the opera star, heads the cast of Joe DiPietro's Broadway comedy as a tantrum-throwing egomaniacal opera star.
Les 7 Doigts de la Main, philosophizing acrobats with a gift for subverting metaphors, upend and mock the laws of physics.
This portrait of a girl and her father, adapted from Alison Bechdel's graphic novel of a memoir, occupies the place where we all grew up, and will never be able to leave.
The company's new, three-part work immerses its dancers into urban scenery.
Bartlett Sher's revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, starring Ken Watanabe and Kelli O'Hara, balances epic sweep with an intimate sensibility.
The musical at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater, based on the 2004 movie about the creator of Peter Pan, heightens the screenplay's life-affirming messages.
Revisiting a very old theme in this big fat musical of a wedding, with all the trimmings (and Tyne Daly starring), by Brian Hargrove and Barbara Anselmi.
Based with a wink on John Buchan's 1915 novel and Alfred Hitchcock's 1935 film, this comedy at the Union Square Theater has a cast of four but too many characters to count.
Richard Eyre's production of the classic Ibsen play, at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, allows the audience to feel the full, bruising force of the drama.
The riveting two-part stage adaptation of Hilary Mantel's best-selling novels about Henry VIII and his chaotic court is at the Winter Garden Theater.
This portrait of love, betrayal and hypocrisy is reimagined through a Native American lens.
Stephen Daldry's revival of David Hare's play, starring Carey Mulligan and Bill Nighy, plays off the dramatic duality of ex-lovers who are irresistibly drawn to each other.
This delightfully dizzy little play, adapted from the 1935 Alfred Hitchcock film, returns to New York.
"Twelfth Night (or What You Will)" and "What You Will (or Twelfth Night)" create worlds in which sexual desire and gender are always changing direction.
In this play at the Kitchen, three characters represent a multiple-choice way of dealing with life, and death.
This interactive piece of street theater guides participants on a meticulously plotted tour of New York City and their own herd mentality.
Scott Ellis's revival of this 1978 musical about dueling egos on a train between Chicago and New York knows that when it comes to being hyperbolic, there's no people like show people.
Sienna Miller and John Cameron Mitchell, taking over roles played by other well-known actors, have given their characters new interpretations and new life.
In this solo show, the British actress Cush Jumbo plays both a version of herself and the boundary-crossing, Paris-conquering Josephine Baker.
Peter Morgan's history-skimming chat show about a monarch and her prime ministers is about as close as most of us are going to get to a cozy tête-à -tête with Queen Elizabeth II.
In his Broadway debut as an actor and playwright, Mr. David plays a character not unlike his TV persona who gathers with his family at his father's deathbed.
Henrik Ibsen, that uncompromising father of the modern drama, is the center of Mr. Wright's new play.
In this musical, a woman has complicated relationships with her brother and then her son.
In Christina Masciotti's play at the Bushwick Starr, a retired Pennsylvania pretzel-factory worker talks just to hear herself talk, even though she's deaf.
This coruscating play, restaged at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, is a modern examination of a slave-era melodrama.
