1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
T. R. Knight stars as an unhappy restaurant manager in Samuel D. Hunter's "Pocatello," at Playwrights Horizons.
Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's "Every Brilliant Thing" offers a long list of reasons not to commit suicide.
Motus, an Italian troupe, presents "The Tempest" as a full-throated cry to the young and disaffected to get off their collective duffs, shake off their shackles and do something.
"The Ambassador," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, gives a three-dimensional landscape for Gabriel Kahane's compositions.
The year's peak theatrical performances, among them "An Octoroon" and "On the Town," had few names to drop.
Eric Idle and other Broadway veterans are in the cast of an oratorio with the promisingly Handel-flouting handle of "Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)."
In "War," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new racially themed play at the Yale Repertory Theater, family members lash out at one another at a deathbed.
Bradley Cooper plays the title role in a sturdy Broadway revival of "The Elephant Man," at the Booth Theater.
Taking over the role in "Cabaret" at Studio 54, Emma Stone portrays Sally as a desperately energetic flapper whose worst fear is not mattering.
Members of the Bedlam troupe play multiple roles in productions of "The Seagull" and "Sense and Sensibility."
Kneehigh Theater of Britain brings "Tristan & Yseult" to St. Ann's Warehouse, with characters who gather at the Club of the Unloved.
"A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)," the new play by Sam Shepard, opened on Sunday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
Who killed a fighting dog? That's the mystery involving a sheriff and a backwoods winemaker in "Pitbulls," at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
At "Blank! The Musical," the audience helps score, script, cast, direct and choreograph a one-performance-only production.
A wealthy suburban couple suddenly find their best friends turning up at their door and seeking sanctuary in Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance."
Mike Nichols's most essential quality was his passion for actors and acting.
John Doyle, known for his revivals, has his way with "Allegro," a 1947 musical that followed Rodgers and Hammerstein's blockbuster successes "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."
Christopher Marlowe's "Tamburlaine, Parts I and II," at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, makes no apologies for its bloody conquering hero.
"Punk Rock," Simon Stephens's tender, ferocious and frightening play, inspires wonder that anybody makes it to the end of adolescence.
Hugh Jackman stars in Jez Butterworth's Broadway play "The River," a poetic tease of a drama.
After an absence of nearly a decade, the famed chanteuse Lypsinka (John Epperson) returns in a trilogy of shows invoking female impersonation by women themselves.
That season in hell commonly called mid-adolescence promises to turn especially hot " and chilly " in Simon Stephens's "Punk Rock."
Kathleen Marshall directs "The Band Wagon," a stage adaptation of the beloved 1953 MGM movie musical.
Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter and Ben Schnetzer star in a revival of "Sticks and Bones," David Rabe's 1971 drama about a soldier just home from Vietnam and his inadequately welcoming family.
For "The Object Lesson," a performance space has been packed with towering cardboard boxes that the audience and the author, Geoff Sobelle, explore in a meditation on human detritus.
