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• Ben Brantley:

  It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a flutter

• Ben Brantley:

  Whether you like it or not, a performance's triumphs and belly flops come to seem excruciatingly in

• Ben Brantley:

  Theater criticism should be visceral, at least on some level, an articulation of that fierceness an

• Ben Brantley:

  I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren

• Ben Brantley:

  Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd.

• Ben Brantley:

  I have received hostile voice mail messages and e-mails. They are often anonymous, I'm sad to say,

• Ben Brantley:

  The cliche was always that 'everybody's a critic,' but it becomes truer every day. Long before revi

• Ben Brantley:

  I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own m

• Ben Brantley:

  I write the occasional entry for the 'Times' Theatre blog, especially when I'm in London and seeing

• Ben Brantley:

  The power of the print reviewer is one of those urban myths. There have always been shows that slip