1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
A factory owner and a drag performer combine efforts in "Kinky Boots," the new Broadway musical from Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper.
David Harrower's "Good With People" is running at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway series.
In the Nora Ephron play "Lucky Guy," at the Broadhurst Theater, Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut playing the newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.
Ben Brantley on the basic moments of metamorphosis on stage that remind us of the magic of theater.
The Encores! concert production of "It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ...It's Superman" is given a pitch-perfect staging by John Rando at City Center.
The new "Breakfast at Tiffany's," on Broadway at the Cort Theater, is more faithful to Truman Capote's novella than the 1961 film was, yet far more melancholy.
Playing a pop goddess in "The Bodyguard," the new musical based on the 1992 movie that starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, Heather Headley gives great diva.
James Graham's "This House" finds suspense in the wheelings and dealings of Parliament; Heather Headley shines as a pop goddess in "The Bodyguard"; and William Boyd tries his hand at playwri…
"The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time," a play adapted from the novel about a boy who appears to have Asperger's syndrome, has opened at the Apollo Theater in London.
You can find Alan Bennett two ways on London stages: He's a character in a double bill starring Alex Jennings ("Hymn" and "Cocktail Sticks") and the author of "People," starring Frances de l…
"Trelawny of the Wells" is a portrait of the Victorian era in theater; Betty Buckley brings her distinctive gifts to "Dear World," a revival of a notorious '60s flop.
Rupert Everett stars as Oscar Wilde in "Judas Kiss" and Rowan Atkinson plays a teacher of English in "Quartermaine's Terms."
In tour-de-force performances, James McAvoy is a war-traumatized Macbeth and Kate O'Flynn is a girl aching to flee her bleak home town in "Port."
The Times's chief theater critic recommends what to see and how to spend less to see it.
"The Audience" is a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons.
Ben Brantley on "Money the Game Show" and a revival of "Privates on Parade," starring Simon Russell Beale.
Ben Brantley on Harold Pinter's "Old Times" and an intimate revival of "Merrily We Roll Along."
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.
Vanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in "The Revisionist," written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
John Doyle's version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's "Passion" comes across as a pulsing collective fever dream.
Vanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in "The Revisionist," written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
Edie Falco stars in "The Madrid," a new play by Liz Flahive about a kindergarten teacher who leaves her job and family without so much as a goodbye.
A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
Women " from real life and fiction " will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like "Ann," "The Testament of Mary" and "Matilda the Musical") this spring.
"Really Really," by Paul Downs Colaizzo, looks at goal-oriented lives adrift on a college campus.
