1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Romeo Castellucci's "On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God" contemplates the end of a human life with visceral detail.
In the gorgeous new production of "The Glass Menagerie" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
"All in the Timing," a series of sketches by David Ives, focuses on language and time.
In "Clive," by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Ethan Hawke plays the title character and also directs the New Group production of an update of Brecht's "Baal."
Ben Brantley on what it was like to be called onstage as an extra in "The Suit."
The topic at hand in "Women of Will" is the burning issue of pants versus dresses, which assumes genuine urgency.
"Fiorello!," the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning 1959 musical, opened the 20th anniversary season of Encores! musicals in concert.
Martin Moran's one-man show "All the Rage" is a map of self-discovery.
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities
Lyle Kessler's "Collision," presented by the Amoralists troupe, follows a college student's efforts to enlist others in a plot.
"The Suit," at the Harvey Theater, retells a story about adultery and pitiless punishment by the South African writer Can Themba.
The Nalagaat Theater, which is made up of performers who are both deaf and blind, offers an optional dinner in their performance piece "Not by Bread Alone."
Scarlett Johansson confirms her promise as a stage actress of imposing presence in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play.
Belarus Free Theater offers a scathing mosaic of its home city with "Minsk, 2011," at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
"Seagull (Thinking of you)" is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
"Midsummer," written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
"I, Malvolio," a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a "Twelfth Night" character out of context for the fun of it.
"Opus No. 7," from the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow, probes memory, ancestors, Mother Russia and the case of Dmitri Shostakovich, at St. Ann's Warehouse.
Physical attractiveness is a running theme in the Roundabout Theater Company's Broadway revival of "Picnic," William Inge's 1953 drama, at the American Airlines Theater.
"Ganesh Versus the Third Reich," in which that Hindu deity seeks to redeem the ancient swastika symbol from the Nazis, raises questions about the nature and abuses of power.
A critic kept his promise not to see theater for several weeks at the end of the year, but favorite stage performers crept into his life thanks to their roles on film and television.
Radiohole's "Inflatable Frankenstein" is all about the difficulties of the act of creation.
Plays that woke up audiences this year included "Uncle Vanya," "Mies Julie," "Once" and "Sorry."
In the new revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross," starring Al Pacino,
Patti LuPone and Debra Winger star in David Mamet's "Anarchist," a heavily embroidered slip of a play.
