1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Several current productions, from Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie" to Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land," navigate the malleable landscape of recollection.
The Dublin writer Conor McPherson has directed his own play "The Night Alive," with Ciarin Hinds, presented by the Atlantic Theater Company.
From "The Glass Menagerie" to "Matilda," Ben Brantley exults in an embarrassment of riches that poured forth this year on and off Broadway.
Squonk Opera, a multimedia troupe of infinite jest with an imagination to match, is determined to blur the lines of our sensory responses to music with its "Mayhem and Majesty." &…
"Sunset Baby," by Dominique Morisseau, is about two generations of urban outlaws struggling to stay afloat in the lower depths.
Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart star in repertory productions of Harold Pinter's "No Man's Land" and Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" at the Cort Theater.
"Regular Singing," the final installment of Richard Nelson's Apple Family cycle of plays, takes place on the day of the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. &n…
"La Belle et la Bête," a retelling of the fairy tale at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, features video projections and dialogue to furrow your brow.
Character takes a back seat in Jack O'Brien's new production of "Macbeth," starring Ethan Hawke, at the Vivian Beaumont.
Margaret Colin and Reed Birney are among the cast of "Taking Care of Baby," a British play that is having its American premiere at City Center.
Jazz at Lincoln Center contributes to the four-singer, four-dancer revue of Stephen Sondheim tunes, "A Bed and a Chair," at City Center.
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater, finds the comedy (and the song) in serial homicide.
With Eileen Atkins and Michael Gambon in the leading roles, Samuel Beckett's "All That Fall" comes to the New York stage.
All the characters are not what they seem in Tim Carroll's staging of "Twelfth Night" and "Richard III," running in repertory on Broadway at the Belasco Theater.
"The Jacksonian," a lurid new play on Theater Row, revolves around the night of a murder at a seedy Mississippi motel.
Bruce Norris's "Domesticated" explores the endangered marriage of a disgraced politician in New York and the wife he does wrong.
Julie Taymor takes on Shakespeare's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and inaugurates the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, the first proper home for the Theater for a New Audience. &nbs…
Wallace Shawn has written and stars in "Grasses of a Thousand Colors," a nasty and erotic fairy tale at the Public Theater.
Even the hopes are shabby for would-be stars in "House of Dance," by Tina Satter.
Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz star in a Broadway revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," a drama of love and perfidy among the literati.
Mary-Louise Parker brings star power to "The Snow Geese," a Sharr White play set in 1917.
"The Landing," a chamber musical by John Kander and Greg Pierce at the Vineyard Theater, tells three stories that tap into innocence and regret.
"Fun Home," a heartbreaker of a musical, in which one woman tries to solve the mystery of who her father really was, is based on a memoir by Alison Bechdel.
The frivolous queen of France in David Adjmi's "Marie Antoinette" appears to have undergone a downsizing in Soho Rep's staging.
Over the last three decades, the National Theatre has come to feel like a homeThe chief theatre critic of the New York Times, Ben Brantley regularly attends National Theatre productions. If …
