1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Playwrights throughout the ages, as different as Brecht and Thornton Wilder, have adapted choruses to their own latter-day purposes.
In Britain the Belarus Free Theater's "Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker" depicts sex as a magnet for political repression, while Philip Ridley's "Mercury Fur" prepares a party in a lawles…
Joe Penhall's new play "Birthday" offers a childbearing role reversal that targets sexual stereotypes, medical services and the nature of marriage.
In attending "You Once Said Yes" in Camden, you are given a backpack and sent into the streets, with no further directions than, "Turn right."
A particularly violent London season of well-known revivals includes a noteworthy "Duchess of Malfi" and a popular "Sweeney Todd."
Timed to coincide with the Olympics, this adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire" stirs the air without raising any adrenaline.
In Dominic Dromgoole's production of Shakespeare's 1599 portrait of a young king at war, light and shadow are always intermingled.
In Philip Ridley's play "Mercury Fur," a gruesome party assembles in a rubble-strewn London apartment
Danny DeVito and Richard Griffiths reveal the raw hostility at the core of Neil Simon's "Sunshine Boys."
The Baby Boom generation seems to have aged into a Baby Bust cohort on the London stage, where privileged youth remain spoiled.
"Forbidden Broadway," the satirical revue that kept theater vultures sated for nearly three decades before closing in Manhattan in 2009, is returning this summer with plenty to spoof.
Ben Brantley on "Sweeney Todd" and other London shows in which the on-stage death toll is unusually high.
Ben Brantley on "The Physicists" at Donmar Warehouse and "South Downs" and "The Browning Version" at the Harold Pinter Theater.
Ben Brantley on new plays by Ella Hickson ("Eight") and the Belarus Free Theater ("Minsk 2011").
Ben Brantley on new plays by Ella Hickson ("Eight") and the Belarus Free Theater ("Minsk 2011").
Anthony Page's excellent revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" runs in London through Aug. 18.
Works by agitprop, political and plain old angry playwrights are something of a trend on smaller stages in London.
The Menier Chocolate Factory revives Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning play, directed by Douglas Hodge.
Ben Brantley on Vivienne Franzmann's "The Witness" at the Royal Court Theater.
'The Duchess of Malfi,' a Jacobean tragedy that just ended its run at Old Vic in London, was written when memories of the first Queen Elizabeth were fresh. Now it provokes Ben Brantley's ref…
"We have a long way to go before this is over," Catherine of Siena tells the audience in Kenneth Lonergan's "Medieval Play," which has knights, ladies, popes, harlots and a dozen or so explo…
What better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and the communal?
The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "The Common Pursuit" " rather like the intellectual undergraduates portrayed onstage " never fulfills even its modest promise.
Athol Fugard's "My Children! My Africa!" is a tale of friendship, idealism and unintended consequences in the twilight of apartheid.
"February House," a new musical at the Public Theater, tours a Brooklyn Heights commune where W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Benjamin Britten were all residents.
