5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Get free tickets to live theater, and other live events " dance, comedy, opera " through Goldstar's three day  Comptrain promotion " today through December 13. You pay just a small servic…
Theatergoers are a loyal lot even when they're not at the theater: We listen to Broadway albums (vote for your favorite in 2019 below), we look for the theater content in movies (such as "Ma…
Choose your favorite 2019 Broadway cast recording from among the 11 in the poll below, ordered alphabetically. If I've somehow missed your favorite, fill in the "Other" slot. (If enough peop…
In "Marriage Story," a movie on Netflix about a couple getting divorced, stars Adam Driver as a New York theater director named Charlie, and Scarlett Johansson as his wife Nicole, an actress…
As heartfelt a musical about a troubled family as "Next To Normal," as full of jaunty and jumpy rock rebellion as "Rent," it's hard to dismiss "Jagged Little Pill" as just another jukebox mu…
French is Myriam Phiro's first language, and Edith Piaf her first love. But it wasn't until she moved to New York from her hometown in a rural area of Quebec a decade ago that Phiro started …
In its effort to sum up the decade culturally (33 Ways to Remember the 2010s), the New York Times gives a nod to the return of theater in the cultural conversation " not always directly. Mic…
 On this eighth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters, theater compani…
Cyber Monday deals in New York theater tickets and more. (Come back as more deals are announced during the day) Ticket Liquidator: HUGE CYBER MONDAY SALE! Get 10% Off All Orders With Code CY…
Today is World AIDS Day. AIDS has been around so long that there's a new wave of plays about the epidemic. This is not nostalgia. There were 1.7 million people newly diagnosed with HIV in…
Below is a selection of New York theater opening in December, organized chronologically by opening date, including the one Broadway musical, "Jagged Little Pill," with songs by Alanis Moriss…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news, views and reviews in November? Answer these ten questions and find out.
"The Young Man from Atlanta," about an aging couple whose only son has died young, Â is the wrong play by Horton Foote to revive "- it's dated, and overrated " Â but one can guess why th…
Click on the link to get ten percent off on any available Broadway show, using the code provided, and then below that, find Black Friday discount deals through Amazon, as well as free trials…
 At 93rd annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the casts of Hadestown, Ain't Too Proud, Tina The Tina Turner Musical, Beetlejuice and the Radio City Rockettes performed live, as did Lea…
My eighth annual Broadway (and small theater) gift guide below includes links and information on shopping for theater tickets, theater subscriptions, cast recordings, play scripts, librettos…
As 2019 is coming to an end, leaving many of us worn down , it might be more rewarding to express gratitude for favorite New York shows that opened not just this year but for the decade as a…
Tony Kushner has taken the first play he wrote, which traced the rise of Nazism in Germany as a cri de coeur and a call to arms against what was happening to America during the Reagan era, a…
"Small theaters" play a large role in making New York City the world's cultural capital, according to  "All New York's a Stage," a report issued this week by the Mayor's Office of Media a…
Fefu picks up a double-barrel shotgun and shoots at her husband near the beginning of "Fefu and Her Friends," billed as a modern classic and written by the beloved avant-garde playwright Mar…
Broadway is always big on Thanksgiving. If Olaf the snowman isn't on stage in "Frozen" at the St. James on Thanksgiving Day, he IS in the air as a balloon in the Thanksgiving Day parade, AND…
Marie Curie won the Nobel Prize twice, but she was also a woman; so the Nobel committee asked her not to show up at the ceremony. We learn the specific reason why early on in this well-inten…
"The Inheritance," a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making his…
"The Inheritance," a long, ambitious play about three generations of gay men in New York, pays homage to two masterpieces, without being one itself. Yet the play by Matthew Lopez, making his…
Who knew that "A Christmas Carol" could be so dangerous! The assaults begin even before the first line of dialogue in the new, charming if overlong, and extraordinarily well-designed Broadwa…
