1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
In times of crisis, it is perhaps better to listen to walls than climb them.
In the Berkshires, Olympia Dukakis in "Mother Courage," and Tina Packer in "The Beauty Queen of Leenane" soften harsh and mean maternal instincts.
In the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival production of "King Lear," a sylvan world surrounding the Boscobel House and Gardens is transformed from enchanted daylight into deepest night. …
Alex Timbers's romping adaptation of "Love's Labour's Lost" is part of Shakespeare in the Park.
"Buyer & Cellar," whose subject is a really, really big star, considers the great divide of renown that separates the idol from the idolized.
"The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable" is an immersive theatrical production in London.
"The Designated Mourner," Wallace Shawn's unflinching look at New York intellectuals, has been given a not-to-be-missed revival at the Public Theater.
In "The Master and Margarita," an adaptation of the Russian masterwork at Bard College, the Devil pays a troublemaking visit to 1930s Moscow.
A slew of London revivals, from "Othello" to "Private Lives" to "Passion Play," focus on the idea of married people misbehaving.
"The Castle," Howard Barker's 1985 play, is making its New York debut in a smart and rowdy production from the Potomac Theater Project.
In London, John Doyle has made an honest musical out of "The Color Purple," and an academic makes a deal with the Devil in "The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart."
Ben Brantley reviews "Children of the Sun" and "Dusa, Fish, Stash and Vi."
Ben Brantley on a revival of "Sweet Bird of Youth" and the new play "Bracken Moor."
Kenneth Branagh returns to Shakespeare in a fast-paced "Macbeth" at the Manchester International Festival.
Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe star in "The Old Woman," an adaptation of short stories by Daniil Kharms.
Impressive new productions of "Othello" at the National Theater and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at Shakespeare's Globe.
Ben Brantley reviews Conor McPherson's "The Night Alive" and James Baldwin's "Amen Corner."
Ben Brantley reviews "Rutherford and Son" and "Hard Feelings."
"Mission Drift," an American import at the National Theater, has plenty of show-biz spark as it makes the case that United States isn't a nation of endless and reach and opportunity. &n…
As the title character in this revival of Martin McDonagh's dark comedy "The Cripple of Inishmaan" Daniel Radcliffe does something unusual for a star: he blends into the scenery and the ense…
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," which opened on Tuesday night at Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is jammed with games and gadgets.
Lucy Kirkwood's hit play "Chimerica" at the Almeida Theater portrays the culture clash between a rising and a waning superpower (China and America) in a story that moves faster than a speedi…
"The Two-Character Play," a late-career work by Tennessee Williams, is revived Off Broadway, with Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in the title roles.
There is an air of erotic effortlessness in John Rando's production of "On the Town" in Pittsfield, Mass.
"Roadkill" is an unsettling site-specific theater piece about sex trafficking that is staged on a bus and in a town house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
