1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
This revival of Tom Stoppard's Tony Award-winning 1982 play about marital love and infidelity offers some lessons in chemistry.
Ivo van Hove's adaptation of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" lends a striking universality to its portrait of life and imminent death in the early years of the AIDS epidemic in New York.
"The Fortress of Solitude," a stage musical based on Jonathan Lethem's novel, opens at the Public Theater.
A stunning reinvention of Sarah Kane's play "4:48 Psychosis," by the TR Warszawa company, is at St. Ann's Warehouse.
"Lippy," from the Dublin-based Dead Centre company, explores an apparent suicide pact among four women.
In the ebullient Broadway revival of "On the Town," New York is a bustling, jostling cartoon that also floats like a swan.
'The Belle of Amherst,' Starring Joely Richardson
In her performance piece "Written in Sand,' Karen Finley rages disconsolately about the loss of friends to AIDS.
The revival of Terrence McNally's "It's Only a Play," a Broadway star vehicle about a Broadway star vehicle, allows theatergoers to feel as though they're among the insiders.
"Ghost Quartet," a rapturous little show at the Bushwick Starr, goes beyond zombies and vampires.
Lisa Dwan plays all the roles in "Not I," "Footfalls" and "Rockaby," short Beckett plays that are part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival.
Regardless of the size of the role, Marian Seldes, who died Tuesday at 86, made her theatrical performances memorable, with precision and flourish.
Simon Stephens adapts Mark Haddon's best-selling novel in "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time."
"The Country House," a Donald Margulies play inspired by Chekhov, stars Blythe Danner as an aging actress presiding over a crowded home.
Romola Garai and Rosemary Harris bring Tom Stoppard's aristocratic Crewe sisters and old British imperialism to New York in "Indian Ink."
In "The Old Man and The Old Moon," at the New Victory, a man who keeps the moon stocked with light leaves his post, causing havoc.
Those who saw, or performed in, "You Can't Take It With You" in high school should not let that trauma taint the Broadway revival of that show.
"The Money Shot," Neil LaBute's new play, depicts two actors who are trying to negotiate an explicit scene.
"Scenes From a Marriage," a play adapted from a 1973 TV mini-series, uses three sets of actors to portray the same couple.
In "The Valley of Astonishment," Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne explore the world of people with synesthesia.
In "Dry Land," two girls on a high school swim team form a complicated friendship as one of them faces the terrible fact of a pregnancy.
Michael Cera, Kieran Culkin and Tavi Gevinson bring to full-blooded life the angst of bright and sullen young things in a Broadway revival of Kenneth Lonergan's "This Is Our Youth."
Works at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia deal with the many ways both nature and human relationships can go wrong.
"Red Eye of Love," like "The Fantasticks," is about a boy, a girl, crushable ideals, minimal scenery and tinkling piano music.
Tantalizing theater comes in small packages this season.
