Английская Википедия:Ben Brantley
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Benjamin D. Brantley (born October 26, 1954) is an American theater critic, journalist, editor, publisher, and writer. He served as the chief theater critic for The New York Times from 1996 to 2017, and as co-chief theater critic from 2017 to 2020.
Early life
Born in Durham, North Carolina on October 26, 1954, Brantley received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, graduating in 1977, and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.[1][2]
Career
Brantley began his journalism career as a summer intern at the Winston-Salem Sentinel and, in 1975, became an editorial assistant at The Village Voice. At Women's Wear Daily, he was a reporter and then editor from 1978 to 1983, and later became the European editor, publisher, and Paris bureau chief until June 1985.[1]
For the next 18 months, Brantley freelanced, writing regularly for Elle, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker before joining The New York Times as a Drama Critic (August 1993). He was elevated to Chief Theater Critic three years later.[1]
Brantley is the editor of The New York Times Book of Broadway: On the Aisle for the Unforgettable Plays of the Last Century, a compilation of 125 reviews published by St. Martin's Press in 2001. He received the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 1996-1997.[1] He was the inspiration for the website DidHeLikeIt.com, which used a "Ben-Ometer" to translate New York Times reviews into ratings.[3] It expanded to become Did They Like It?, an aggregator for Broadway reviews from other major publications.[4]
Brantley has been dubbed a "celebrity underminer."[5] In an article in The New York Times, published on January 3, 2010, he expressed his ambivalence about the "unprecedented heights" of "star worship on Broadway during the past 10 years."[6]
In 2018, Brantley was criticized for his review of the musical Head Over Heels, which contained comments about the play's principal character, played by drag queen Peppermint, that were seen as transphobic.[7][8] The Times subsequently edited the review and Brantley issued an apology, writing that he had tried to "reflect the light tone of the show", but his remarks instead came off as "more flippant than I would have ever intended".[9]
Brantley retired from his position as the paper's co-chief theatre critic in 2020, but continued to contribute columns afterward.[10]
Personal life
Brantley, who is gay, lives in New York City.[11][12]
See also
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