1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
Ethan Lipton recreates the anxieties and epiphanies of an unemployed worker in his new show, "No Place to Go," at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
"Once," based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
In "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the director Mike Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play.
The return of "Gatz" to New York provides a chance to examine other attempts to capture the essence of books on stage.
"The Kreutzer Sonata," an adaptation of Tolstoy's novella by the Gate Theater of London, comes to La MaMa.
Sidney Goldfarb's "Hot Lunch Apostles" at La MaMa is set in a destitute age " the 21st century " in which people will do anything to put food on their tables.
"Edward Albee's The Lady From Dubuque" opened in a scintillating revival at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
Nina Raine's play "Tribes" concerns a family whose deaf son brings home his girlfriend, who is losing her hearing.
The musical "Carrie," a famous Broadway flop, has been revived at the Lucille Lortel Theater, in a production that is characterized by, uh, good taste.
A reminiscence of the former Daily News theater critic Howard Kissel, who died last week.
In "Hurt Village," an African-American family preparing to leave a shabby apartment in a housing project for a newer home encounters plenty of barriers, inside and out.
Life is a dream-smothering joker in Eugene O'Neill's bleak drama "Beyond the Horizon," at the Irish Repertory Theater.
Amid theater's smaller, potent plays about the working and middle classes, thank goodness there's still room for glittery musicals about Evita Peron, Judy Garland and Jesus Christ.
"Early Plays," three Eugene O'Neill seafaring one-acts, are directed by Richard Maxwell for the Wooster Group at Ann's Warehouse.
"I Killed My Mother" is the tale of a Romanian orphan who grew up in a strict institution where she had one friend, a boy who taught her the art of turning people into stone.
In "And God Created Great Whales," Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on "Moby-Dick."
In a revival of Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," Norbert Leo Butz stars in one of the most discomfiting love stories to emerge from the American theater.
The first production of this season's Encores! series, Stephen Sondheim and Gorge Furth's "Merrily We Roll Along," comes across as oddly quaint and self-conscious.
In London the stages are filled with rulers who are mad, bad and dangerous to know, from Richard II to King Ubu.
My nostrils received a vigorous work-out during my recent theater-going binge in London, especially in more intimate theaters.
The zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean…
Several current British productions, including "Lovesong," "Travelling Light" and "The Kreutzer Sonata," feature characters who recall earlier times.
God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
Reviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.
