1,428 stories by "Ben Brantley"
This impeccably acted revival presents Kenneth Lonergan's poignant comic drama about dementia as a memory play in more ways than one.
Jaclyn Backhaus's cheerfully instructive play follows a young Punjabi-American woman, a descendant of a notorious pirate, who opens a bar in Wisconsin.
Jez Butterworth's great, sprawling drama of rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles bares a culture's contradictions through riveting storytelling.
In Jane Anderson's satisfyingly old-fashioned play about Joan of Arc's mom, Ms. Close shows the stuff of which great stage stars are made.
Portraying a celebrated art historian with two resentful sons, Ms. Channing finds the anguished heart in a didactic comic drama.
David Greenspan's tone poem of a play, at the Bushwick Starr, considers time, death, family and the ways in which we recall our dead.
This strident satire from the filmmaker behind "Happiness" and "Wiener-Dog" is perfectly staged " and all too obvious.
This bill of short comedies, early and late, allows fans of Gurney to chart the evolution of theater's foremost chronicler of a waning caste.
Bill Irwin blurs the lines between clown and dramatic actor in an insightful anatomy of the works of Samuel Beckett.
In this multimedia performance piece, Angelica Page delivers a portrait of a poet for whom being "nobody" was anything but a pleasure.
Conor McPherson's bleak tale of a Minnesota boardinghouse in the Great Depression finds a luminous transcendence in the Dylan song book.
In the baggy, emotionally fraught play, Heidi Schreck considers her ever-changing relationship with a seminal document.
Richard Bean's comedy about a wayward attempt to fix a snooker match tickles its audiences into contentment.
This congested revival, directed by Austin Pendleton, features a mismatched cast of four and some classic Williams dialogue.
Stefano Massini's poetically cadenced portrait of the life and death of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya lets facts speak for themselves.
In a piece she describes as "sort of a play," the poet and singer journeys through her past, with a little help from her children.
Mikel Murfi's virtuoso performance about the life and death of a redoubtable woman is a many-tongued wonder of Irish storytelling.
Richard Nelson's emotionally transparent interpretation of a Chekhov masterwork, starring a brilliant Jay O. Sanders, makes us hear a classic anew.
This combination of a classical tragedy and a contemporary discussion group finds a mirror for Ferguson, Mo., in ancient Thebes.
In the most promising plays opening this fall, the family drama opens its living room to an invasion of political anxieties.
Ben Brantley and his London counterpart Michael Billington find much that's enthralling about the state of playwriting in their countries.
This wan resuscitation of the 1990 movie about a Cinderella prostitute is likely to make you nostalgic for Julia Roberts's original performance.
Roslyn Ruff gives a wondrous performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival revival of the Carson McCullers play.
This high-energy, high-anxiety musical, a hit on social media even before it opened, reflects the metabolism of its teenage audience.
The movie that heralded the jukebox musical has been reinvented as a jukebox musical on its very own terms at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston.
