Ben Brantley News

The Olivier Award-winning new play from London is now a hit in New York. See this "Terrific comedy with an unprintable name" (NYT's Ben Brantley) for only $45. Get your tickets today! (more...)

Audiences throughout the country have fallen into the habit of standing up because they think it’s expected, as if it’s part of their unwritten contract with the people creating art in darkened theaters night after night. Rather than rewarding a cast and crew for a job truly well done, many people stand up simply because “it’s the thing to do.” And woe be unto you who remains seated! (more...)

Universal Pictures Stage Productions, Working Title Films, Old Vic Productions and NETworks Presentations, LLC bring the multi-award-winning Billy Elliot the Musical to the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center from June 19 to June 24. Based on the international smash-hit film and featuring music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall, choreography by Peter Darling and direction by Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot the Musical has earned critical acclaim around the world and was the winner of ten 2009 Tony Awards including Best Musical. (more...)

Limited time offer! Buy One Ticket Get One Free to see Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby in LONELY, I'M NOT, now playing at Second Stage Theatre! (more...)

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SISTAS:The Musical will be celebrating its 100th Performance on Sunday, May 20th at St. Luke’s Theatre, (308 West 46th St.). (more...)

Order now and save up to 40% on tickets to Best Musical Tony Nominee NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara! (more...)

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts presents “FELA!,” the recipient of three 2010 Tony Awards, as part of the Ordway’s 2011-2012 Theater Season. “FELA!” is "a provocative hybrid of dance, theater and music exploring the extravagant world of Afrobeat legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti." (more...)

Producers Nancy Nagel Gibbs, Greg Schaffert, Eva Price and Tom Smedes announced today that Rick Elice’s new play, Peter and the Starcatcher, will embark on a national tour, opening in August 2013 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver, CO. The play’s Tony Award-nominated directors, Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, will direct the touring production, which will be represented by The Road Company. (more...)

Megan Hilty and Rachel York star in the Encores! production of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, whick openedon May 9 at New York City Center. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is directed by John Rando with music direction by Rob Berman and choreography by Randy Skinner and will play for seven performances, May 9 – 13, at New York City Center, 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues. (more...)

Critics Ben Brantley of The New York Times, Peter Marks of The Washington Post, and Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal review the current spring season on Broadway in the newest THEATER TALK this weekend. (more...)

Last week, the 2012 Tony Awards Nominations were announced by Tony winning actress Kristin Chenoweth and Emmy and Golden Globe-winning actor Jim Parsons, officially launching Tony season in New York City. This morning, New York Times theatre critics Ben Brantley and Charles Isherwood, whose 2011 predictions averaged 78% accuracy, picked this year's winners. CLICK HERE to check out who they thinkwill and should win in 2012! (more...)

Linda Lavin stars as Rita Lyons, the indomitable matriarch of a dysfunctional family at a major crossroads. Her husband is dying, her son is in a dubious relationship, her daughter is barely holding it together. And worst of all, Rita can’t figure out how to redesign her living room! See THE LYONS now on Broadway - and save up to 40% on tickets! (more...)

Order now and save on tickets to performances of Bruce Norris's acclaimed play Clybourne Park, now playing at the Walter Kerr Theatre. (more...)

Save up to 30% on ONCE, Broadway's most Tony-nominated musical of the season with 34 nominations including 5 for Best Musical! (more...)

When you put together a very pregnant woman, an over-the-top tv personality, his fiery wife, his mistress, his hungover best friend, and an all too wise 9 year old - well, it's going to get crazy. Alan Ayckbourn's rarely seen comedy My Wonderful Day fuses all of these characters together. With previews May 19, 20 and 23, My Wonderful Day opens May 24 and runs through June 17 at Main Street Theater. See photos from the production below! (more...)

Manhattan Theatre Club’s world premiere production of THE COLUMNIST by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn, directed by Tony Award winner Daniel Sullivan opened tonight, April 25th on Broadway...Let's see what the critics had to say! (more...)

Currently earning rave reviews in Broadway’s revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, leading lady Audra McDonald will perform at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center this Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. with the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Andy Einhorn. The program will include the songs of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim and more. (more...)

Currently earning rave reviews in Broadway’s revival of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, leading lady Audra McDonald will perform at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center this Friday, April 20 at 8 p.m. with the New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Andy Einhorn. The program will include the songs of Irving Berlin, Harold Arlen, Frank Loesser, Lerner and Loewe, Stephen Sondheim and more. (more...)

IT'S DECEMBER 1968 AND JUDY GARLAND is poised to make a triumphant comeback… again. In a London hotel room with her young new fianceé ("a perfectly cast Tom Pelphrey" New York Times) and trusted pianist ("a wonderful Michael Cumpsty" New York Times) at her side, Garland prepares to undertake a series of concerts at London’s famed Talk of the Town with her signature cocktail of talent, tenacity and razor-sharp wit, revealing the most brilliant star in her most demanding role: her life. END OF THE RAINBOW is now playing - buy tickets today and save! (more...)