"Benjamin D." ""Ben"" "Brantley" is an United States/American journalist and the chief theater critic of The New York Times.

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The humor in the Odd Couple is rooted in watching ordinary guys equipped with an extraordinary arsenal of zingers, ... you wonder where the songs are.

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The Invention of Love.

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What Mr. Kaufman and his team are after is less a portrait of any one person than one of the ethos of a place, ... In the deliberate, simple staging ... in which eight radiantly clean-scrubbed performers embody 60 different people against a bare-bones set, 'Laramie' often brings to mind 'Our Town,' the beloved Thornton Wilder study of life, love and death in parochial New Hampshire.

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Everyone and everything winds up lost in this ... adaptation of Tolkien 's cult-inspiring trilogy of fantasy novels. That includes plot, character and the patience of most ordinary theatergoers.

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The man in black turns sunshine yellow in 'Ring of Fire,' the show that strings songs associated with Johnny Cash into an artificially sweetened candy necklace.

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You will gasp again and again at the inventive visual majesty.

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Con's climactic metamorphosis into the man behind the aristocrat's pose is embodied with shattering, scary violence and precision.

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