1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Kristin Chenoweth and Ian McKellen demonstrate the increasingly popular art of turning theater palaces into cozy parlors for confabs with fans.
The Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones" star shows off his abundant charisma in a lachrymose musical adaptation of Rostand's classic.
In this delicately wrought portrait of a dying choreographer and her family, Richard Nelson's play considers the redemptive powers of art in fractious times.
This convoluted play chronicles the breakdown of a conflicted, displaced East African woman in the cosmopolitan West.
Tina Satter's remarkable docudrama recreates the bizarrely banal interrogation that led to the arrest of the intelligence contractor Reality Winner.
The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.
This jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
Michael Mayer's revitalizing revival of this genially gruesome classic becomes a sly morality tale for the age of universal celebrity.
Trip Cullman's unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
This head-tripping play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, inspired by Euripides' "The Bacchae," allows women past and present to find catharsis in one truly wild bash.
Tracy Letts, the author of "August: Osage County," reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production.
Ross Golan's dark chamber musical, based on a concept album, stars the excellent Joshua Henry as an innocent man on the lam.
In this haunting memoir of his relationship with a homeless man, Mr. Oliver confirms his status as a poet laureate of New York's dispossessed.
This exultant evening of improvised rap " created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale " turns out to be a perfect fit for Broadway.
Alexis Scheer's vibrant play about four teenage girls, a Ouija board and a narco-terrorist summons the truly scary spirits that keep us awake at night.
In Jack Thorne's listless new play, a group of feckless friends gather to discuss Anne Tyler and share their self-consciousness.
This distillation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, by the director who deconstructed "Oklahoma!," catalogs the clutter of the American mind.
His eyesight failing but schedule still packed, the 94-year-old stage director reflects on a globe-spanning career that includes a New York premiere this week.
Jaclyn Backhaus's slapdash comedy, at Playwright's Horizons, travels through time to coax oppressed spouses out of their powerful husband's shadows.
This one-mentalist show, in which Mr. Brown peers into the minds of his audience, offers exhilaration and comfort to New York City's head cases.
Mr. Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox portray three friends in flux in Jamie Lloyd's revelatory interpretation of a Harold Pinter classic.
New York stages will bop to the songbooks of Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette, Tina Turner and David Byrne this season. And that's not counting the 70 songwriters of "Moulin Rouge!"
Jonathan Spector's lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement.
Jason O'Connell and Brenda Withers's adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival asks us not to take anything at face value.
Andrew Scott, John Malkovich and Clive Owen are among the West End actors portraying men hopelessly in thrall to erotic impulses.
