Gatz sees a cast of 13 perform every word of F Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby – a premise that sounds indigestible on paper yet has performed around the world to sellout audiences and ecstatic reviews. The New York Times's chief theatre critic,...

Fast forward to December 2011 and sure enough, Give It Up debuts on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre with the new title Lysistrata Jones. The musical received rave reviews from the New York critics including The New York Times' Ben Brantley. Even...

But the show has found fans even among the most fervent believers. A big part of its unlikely success and its nine Tony Awards is that it seems to have it both ways. It is blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet, New York Times...

Part of the reason for the shows success and its nine Tony Awards is because it seems to have it both ways. It is blasphemous, scurrilous and more foul-mouthed than David Mamet, New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote of the Broadway premiere last...

Unsurprisingly, the Times’ Ben Brantley, with his eternal weakness for grande dames, has led in this vein. Terry Teachout at the Wall Street Journal has been less polite, deeming the thing “emotionally null” and warning that anyone who has seen the...

That's the apparent lesson after Barack Obama sang a line of "Let's Stay Together" at a fundraiser and online sales of the Al Green original increased substantially. So begins Ben Brantley's nicely lyrical review of Nixon's performance in Wit. One...