1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
"Matilda," the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl's young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
Cynthia Nixon stars in Manhattan Theater Club's revival of "Wit," Margaret Edson's play about a terminally ill English professor.
Ben Brantley sees "The Mousetrap" in London for the first time to see how the longest-running play in modern history is holding up.
Kevin Spacey cuts like a buzz saw in "Richard III" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
A new production of Athol Fugard's "Road to Mecca" stars Rosemary Harris as a sculptor in 1970s South Africa.
Jay Scheib's "World of Wires," at the Kitchen, is part of a performance trilogy about the mind-scrambling overlap of natural and technology-generated worlds.
Audra McDonald brings thunder to "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," a stripped-down version of the original opera, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
Can film and theater live happily together in the same room? More and more recently these two separate (and arguably equal) art forms are attempting to practice cohabitation.
The monologuist Daniel Kitson returns to St. Ann's Warehouse with a one-man show about two people who never knew each other in 19th-century England.
In Gob Squad's "Super Night Shot," part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, passers-by are enlisted to appear in an instant film.
"Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech," a triptych of short plays that is being performed as part of the Under the Radar festival, is written and directed in hypnotic style b…
"Alexis. A Greek Tragedy," a production of the Italian troupe Motus at the Under the Radar festival, is an invigorating portrait of youthful rebellion in contemporary Greece.
I am throwing open the door for those who feel they have been unsung in Times theater reviews.
It has been a year in the theater for putting new and explosive life into classic vessels.
"Lysistrata Jones" is a throwback to the perishable good-time musicals in which peppy kids delivered of-the-moment jokes and lively dances.
A new version of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" appears to have given everyone who appears in it " including its charismatic star, Harry Connick Jr. " a moaning case of the deep-dyed b…
The fantasy of Hugh Jackman: your dream lover, your gay best friend, and no embarrassing meltdowns.
The talented creators of "Once," a musical inspired by the 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, faced a big problem that they've only partly resolved.
John Turturro and Dianne Wiest star in Andrei Belgrader's heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," at the Classic Stage Company.
The electrifying Cillian Murphy seems to inhabit every millimeter of the wasteland in which he has been let loose in "Misterman," Enda Walsh's one-man play.
"Elective Affinities," a one-woman show with Zoe Caldwell, explores an aristocratic character with a warm demeanor and a chilly heart.
Frank Wildohorn's "Bonnie & Clyde" is a modest, mildly tuneful musical biography of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker.
Why not give the gift that says it all for you? I mean theater tickets, of course.
"Wild Animals You Should Know," by Thomas Higgins, centers on an erotically charged relationship among Boy Scouts at a wilderness camp.
"Seminar," a new comedy by Theresa Rebeck, concerns aspiring novelists who sign up for classes with a celebrated fiction guru, played by the droll Alan Rickman.
