Theater Talkback: Familiar Faces in Two Dimensions
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.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Defying Expectations Off Broadway
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: The Rough Beauty of Everyday Speech
Nature Theater of Oklahoma's "Life and Times" reminds one critic that verbatim conversation on stage can offer its own distinctive pleasures.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Stepping Into the Spotlight
Ben Brantley on what it was like to be called onstage as an extra in "The Suit."
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Better Off Buried
In the last couple of seasons the New York theater has taken its love affair with its own past to perverse new extremes by trying to resurrect notorious flops.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Old Works, Born Anew
A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
View ArticleAsk Ben Brantley About London Theater
Mr. Brantley will answer questions from readers this week.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: How to Offend a White Person
Greg Kalleres, whose play "Honky" opened at Urban Stages on March 14, wonders what word best pushes white people's buttons.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: The Season of the Sputtering Starlet
Emilia Clarke in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is the latest example of a screen actress struggling to adapt to the stage.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Quick-Change Artistry
Ben Brantley on the basic moments of metamorphosis on stage that remind us of the magic of theater.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: In the Minority
A writer reflects on what it's like not to agree with popular opinion, prompted by his lukewarm response to the much-celebrated "Matilda."
View ArticleAsk Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood About the Tonys and the Theater Season
The theater critics for The Times are taking readers' questions this week.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Farewell to ‘Smash’
A theater critic says goodbye to the disappointing NBC series about the making of a Broadway show.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Stepping Into the Spotlight
Ben Brantley on what it was like to be called onstage as an extra in "The Suit."
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Better Off Buried
In the last couple of seasons the New York theater has taken its love affair with its own past to perverse new extremes by trying to resurrect notorious flops.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Old Works, Born Anew
A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
View ArticleAsk Ben Brantley About London Theater
Mr. Brantley will answer questions from readers this week.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: How to Offend a White Person
Greg Kalleres, whose play "Honky" opened at Urban Stages on March 14, wonders what word best pushes white people's buttons.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: The Season of the Sputtering Starlet
Emilia Clarke in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is the latest example of a screen actress struggling to adapt to the stage.
View ArticleTheater Talkback: Quick-Change Artistry
Ben Brantley on the basic moments of metamorphosis on stage that remind us of the magic of theater.
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