5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"Avenue Q" is no more, the Bil Baird Marionette Theater died decades ago, but there is plenty of puppetry in New York, as I detail in my article for TDF Stages, 5 Theatres You Need to Know: …
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
"The Secret Life of Bees" " first a 2001 best-selling novel, then a 2008 all-star movie, now a musical written by theatrical all stars Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), Duncan Sheik (Spring Awak…
The first publicity shot from Steven Spielberg's movie remake of "West Side Story," planned for December 2020, came on the same week as the death of Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1968 film of "Ro…
"A Strange Loop" is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical's talented boo…
The stunning production of "Fairview," Jackie Siblies Drury's challenging play, is now being remounted with the same extraordinary cast and creative team at the Theatre for a New Audience in…
"….I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes," Molly Bloom says, the l…
Moira Buffini's inspired, inventive play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher " two women born six months apart and forced to deal with one another for the 11 years …
In 1944, when FDR was running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the Democrats kicked out his then-Vice President, Henry Wallace, and nominated Missouri Senator Harry Truman to r…
For the next three days (June 12th to 14th), you can get free tickets for certain seats at various future performances of live theater, concerts, dance, and comedy, courtesy of Goldstar's…
As Beatrice in the Public Theater's all-black production of "Much Ado About Nothing," Danielle Brooks proves herself a Shakespearean actress of a high order " and at the same time redefines …
From Ali Stroker tearfully dedicating her Tony to "every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability" to Elaine May's wry explanation for her win to Andre De Shields' three rules of lon…
"This award is for every kid who is watching tonight who has a disability, who has a limitation, who has a challenge, who has been waiting to see themselves represented in this arena. You ar…
Hadestown won best musical and seven other awards, The Ferryman best play, the Boys in the Band best play revival of a play, Oklahoma best musical revival musical at the 73rd Annual Tony…
The American Theatre Wing's 73rd Annual Tony Awards, with host James Corden, will be broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall on CBS Â tonight, Sunday, June 9, 2019 from 8:00 to 11:00 PM,…
In her stage version of Louisa May Alcott's beloved 19thcentury novel, Kate Hamill promises a "radical adaptation" and a "conscious explosion" of "the archetypes found in the novel."Â But…
Following up on her play "The Cake," about a baker in North Carolina who struggles to accept her lesbian goddaughter, playwright (and "This Is Us" producer-writer) Bekah Brunstetter now give…
Now is the time when interest in Broadway is at its peak, piqued by the three-hour TV commercial for Broadway known as the 2019 Tony Awards. Get tickets to attend the Tony Awards in person! …
This was an adventurous year for Broadway, with several unconventional works that seemed a more comfortable fit Off-Broadway or even Off-Off Broadway. This is a welcome development, albeit a…
Below are my preferences " not my predictions " for the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. See my article in DC Theatre Scene for an explanation for each of my choices, and shout-outs to other nominee…
In its ultimately lovely if overlong Broadway revival, "Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune" begins with loud grunting and shrieking, amid glimpses of breasts and buttocks in the dim lig…
Casual theater lovers might think that there's nothing else happening beside the Tony Awards in June. They would be wrong! June calendar of theater openings: Stonewall 50 on Stages! Fairview…
A dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Nathan Lane, were honored at the 75th annual Theatre World Awards. Some spoke on the red carpet about when they first realized the…
Christopher Shinn's "Dying City," which was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in Drama after it received an admired production at Lincoln Center in 2007, is being revived here at the same t…
