5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Bryan Cranston won the distinguished performance award at the 85th annual Drama League Awards for his performance in Network, while Hadestown won best musical, and The Ferryman best play. Di…
Comedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
Comedian Carl Reiner called his comic novel Enter Laughing, because that is the first stage direction that his 17-year-old main character is given, at his first ever-audition, and he makes a…
From the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Happy Talk, Jesse Eisenberg's latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion. Sh…
From the moment Susan Sarandon makes her entrance in Jesse Eisenberg's latest play, it is clear her character Lorraine is extravagantly self-absorbed to the point of delusion….It would be …
The story that Tony winner Alice Ripley tells in this one-woman show " of an unsophisticated mother named Trisha Lee in the small Texas town of Sparktown who becomes woke after her child …
Summer begins officially next month, but the summer theatergoing season launches this week with the first two of 13 annual New York summer theater festivals. Clubbed Thumb, which has bee…
"The Ferryman" won outstanding Broadway play and "Hadestown" outstanding Broadway musical in the 69th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. 'White Noise" won best Off-Broadway play an…
In a culture where "stage mother" has a negative connotation, and mothers aren't always the most endearing characters on stage, it's good to honor Mother's Day by watching videos of Katie Bo…
In episode 6 of the FX TV series "Fosse Verdon," which will air on Tuesday May 14th, Bob Fosse (Sam Rockwell) splits his time between editing the movie he's directing, "Lenny" about Lenny Br…
Summertime is a good time for the adventurous New York theatergoer, and the broke New York theatergoer. Summer theater festivals present shows that are usually cheaper (often free), and more…
Ten of the 34 shows that opened on Broadway during the 2018-2019 season began life Off-Broadway.  I was struck  by how sharply different my reactions were to seeing the Off-Broadway an…
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd Annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated:Cho…
Tony winner Billy Porter became the pharaoh of fashion at the Met Gala red carpet, his Egyptian-themed…production number… right up there with Katy Perry wearing a chandelier, Jared Leto …
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth best play of the 2018-19 season, Tootsie best musical, What the Constitution Means to Me by Heidi Schrec…
in the 34th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Full list of winners: Outstanding Play Outstanding Musical Outstanding Revival Outstanding Solo Show Fleaba…
Make your pick in the survey below for 16 of the 26 categories in the 73rd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 9th at Radio Music Hall i…
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Gbenga Akinnagbe, To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Glynn-Carney, The Ferrym…
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2019 Tony Awards, which were announced Tuesday. How well do you know the nominees. How much were you paying attention to the season? Â
May is not just the month that theatergoers debate nominations and await awards. Shows do open. That includes just one play on Broadway " the first of the 2019-2020 Broadway season, starring…
Hadestown, Ain't Too Proud and Tootsie received the greatest number of nominations in the 2019 Tony Awards, announced by Brandon Victor Dixon and Bebe Neuwirth. The winners of the 73rd annua…
The Broadway 2018-2019 season has ended, and the New York theater award season is in high gear. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. Here are the shows that opened on Broadway th…
Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 tragedy, the playwright's first hit play. This is because of…
Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 tragedy, the playwright's first hit play. This is because of dir…
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, "a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit," and in a year's time made it a wildl…