1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
A new production of David Hare's "Skylight," at Wyndham's Theater in London, stars Bill Nighy and Carey Mulligan.
The beloved great uncles of British humor perform for loyal and new fans in their new production, "Monty Python Live (mostly)," at the O2 Arena in London.
"Great Britain," Richard Bean's satire about the phone-hacking scandal that brought down a newspaper, opened on Monday night at the National Theater amid gleeful expectations.
Ben Brantley on "Antony and Cleopatra," "The Last Days of Troy," "Adler & Gibb" and "Red Forest."
"Randy Newman's Faust: The Concert" is getting a one-night-only Encores! Off-Center production.
"The Old Woman," based on a novella by Daniil Kharms, stars Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
R. C. Sherriff's 1928 play "Journey's End," based on his memories of life in the trenches, anticipates the absurdism and existentialism of Beckett.
Cherry Jones plays a character who runs a bed-and-breakfast that becomes an early shelter for battered women in the earnest, thoughtful drama "When We Were Young and Unafraid."
Jack O'Brien's pleasure-filled production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in Central Park pits Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as Shakespeare's sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick.
"Ayckburn Ensemble," a medley of plays by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 Theaters, offers a rich opportunity to explore the sadness of his antic consumerist characters.
In "Fly by Night," the new musical at Playwrights Horizons, a New York sandwich maker finds himself drawn to two sisters with very different goals.
"The Village Bike," Penelope Skinner's play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, centers on a lonely pregnant woman whose growing obsession with sex takes her and other characters to dark places.
Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh's staging of "Macbeth" at the Park Avenue Armory is a speeding juggernaut for two intermissionless hours.
"Arrivals & Departures," part of a trio of Alan Ayckbourn plays running in rep as part of Brits Off Broadway, is a comedy that delves into counterterrorism.
In "Early Shaker Spirituals," the genre-bending Wooster Group pays plain-spoken tribute to the Shakers, inflection for inflection.
The Brits Off Broadway festival is celebrating this peerlessly fertile writer's three-quarters of a century with a repertory of three productions.
Linda Lavin stars as an actress who descends on her daughter's break from the city in Nicky Silver's "Too Much Sun," at the Vineyard Theater.
The chief theater critic of The New York Times makes his Tony Award choices.
They weren't nominating many movie stars for Tony Awards this year, maybe because those celebrities did such a good job of working like real actors instead.
"Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!," the latest incarnation of the long-running satirical revue, addresses signs of a theater season notably lacking in fresh material.
"An Octoroon," by the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is an exhilarating, booby-trapped production.
"Here Lies Love," the poperetta conceived by David Byrne about the rise and fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, has returned to the Public Theater.
A young Spalding Gray appears in "The Wooster Group's Rumstick Road," which explores his mother's suicide.
In Anthony Giardina's "The City of Conversation," at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, Jan Maxwell portrays a Washington political hostess.
The Roundabout's production of "Cabaret" is back at Studio 54 " now with Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles.
