1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
"Casa Valentina," written by Harvey Fierstein, tells of cross-dressing men who frequent a Catskills resort that caters to them in the early 1960s.
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch," about a transgendered performer with issues, stars Neil Patrick Harris in the title role.
Daniel Radcliffe stars in Michael Grandage's splendid production of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy "The Cripple of Inishmaan."
"Act One" at Lincoln Center stars Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana and Matthew Schechter as the theater artisan Moss Hart, from his Bronx childhood to Broadway glory.
James Franco and Chris O'Dowd both make Broadway debuts in the respectable, respectful and generally inert revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men."
"The Library," the director Steven Soderbergh's maiden outing on the New York stage, opened on Tuesday at the Public Theater.
In Richard Maxwell's "Isolde," plans by a contractor and an actress to build the perfect vacation home become complicated by a love triangle as primal instincts rise to the surface.
"Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical," inspired buy Woody Allen's 1994 film of the same title, is instructive for those determined to translate screen chemistry into crowd-wowing live theater.
Starring Denzel Washington, "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater is a disarmingly relaxed revival, brimming with empathy for its flawed characters.
The Encores! production of "The Most Happy Fella," led by Shuler Hensley and Laura Benanti, is an unabashed hymn of hope to fresh starts and quickened feelings.
in honor of Irma's 30th anniversary, Red Bull Theater is presenting this fractured classic in a production directed by Everett Quinton, who starred (with Ludlam) in the original. A promising…
Red Bull Theater is presenting Charles Ludlam's "The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful" in a production directed by Everett Quinton.
"Heathers: The Musical" recalls an era when killing off the leaders of a high school's reigning clique could still seem like a joke.
Lolita Chakrabarti's "Red Velvet" reflects on the evening in 1833 when London theatergoers first saw a black actor play Othello.
New York City has never looked cleaner than it does in "If/Then," the gleaming drawing board of a musical that opened on Broadway, starring the shiny-voiced Idina Menzel. &n…
Stories from the past, brought to life by veteran actresses, animate the nostalgic "I Remember Mama" at the Gym at Judson.
The Theater for a New Audience production of "King Lear," directed by Arin Arbus, brings a quieter-than-normal touch to Shakespeare's tale of chaos in a kingdom and a family. &nbs…
"Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!," at Target Margin Theater, draws on past productions of this play inspired by the life of a 17th-century Jewish philosopher and skeptic. &nb…
In Terrence McNally's new play, "Mothers and Sons," Tyne Daly's character has an uncomfortable reunion with Frederick Weller's, who was her son's lover.
"Tales From Red Vienna," David Grimm's new play, set in 1920 Austria, throws together a widowed gentlewoman and a brash Hungarian journalist.
The performance artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser unfold a bona fide X-rated fairy tale in "Beauty and the Beast," at the Abrons Arts Center.
In "Appropriate," the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins brings together dissatisfied relatives for one last angry feast of guilt and recrimination.
"Rocky," the mostly torpid new musical at the Winter Garden Theater, counts on its audience's residual affection for the film on which it is based.
"Stockholm," by Bryony Lavery, at 59E59 Theaters, unmasks a couple's brittle stylishness.
Tarell Alvin McCraney's squishy, misbegotten "Antony and Cleopatra" resets Shakespeare's tragedy on the island of Hispaniola during the reign of the French.
