5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in February? How about Broadway's presence at the Oscars? At the Grammys? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
In Madeleine George's often  hilarious, ultimately pointed comedy, the Greek god of agricultural and theater has decided to save the planet, after retreating for several centuries from th…
 In this latest musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,"  Alice (Molly Gordon) is a British teenager in 1941 who takes shelter in the Underground with o…
The launching of The Robert W. Wilson MCC Theater Space, with the opening tonight of "Alice By Heart," Â is the latest "new, state-of-the-art complex" (as MCC is calling it) " with several…
Mary Seacole, though little known in the United States, was almost as celebrated in her time as Florence Nightingale, and for much the same reason " for nursing the sick and wounded during t…
Green Book won best picture, Rami Malek of "Bohemian Rhapsody" lead actor and Olivia Colman of "The Favourite" lead actress at the 91st annual Academy Awards. Ruth E. Carter and Hannah Beach…
It takes Henry Higgins six months to transform Eliza Doolittle from a "draggle-tailed guttersnipe" in "My Fair Lady" to a lady who can pass as a duchess at the Embassy Ball. Now, ten months …
Bill Rauch, who last February was appointed the first artistic director of the performing arts center at the World Trade Center in New York, was sitting in a theater near his home some 3,000…
With what's billed as its re-imagined production of "Merrily We Roll Along," Fiasco Theater Company has taken on their second Sondheim in four years. Fiasco, a ten-year-old ensemble that gai…
There's one way that the Yiddish language "Fiddler On The Roof" directed by Joel Gray and starring Steven Skybell is strikingly different now that it's moved uptown to the Shubert's Off-Broa…
"The Price of Thomas Scott," Elizabeth Baker's play about a small shop owner struggling with his conscience, marks the launching of the Mint Theater's ambitious "Meet Miss Baker" series. Wit…
As the season heats up, Off-Broadway is showcasing plenty of screen stars — or maybe it’s the other way around. Click on the photographs to learn the show and the theater, then c…
Nearly every president has been depicted on the stage at one time or another. There are currently three on Broadway — in a single show, “Hamilton” which opened Off-Broad…
"I love you," Stephen says to his wife Amy. "I love you," Amy replies. "Please don't respond verbally," Stephen admonishes her. He is a cognitive neuroscientist conducting an experiment. He …
Some of the theater posters Frank Verlizzo designed hang on the famous flop wall of Joe Allan's restaurant. Some hold a prominent place in the homes of grateful Broadway stars. But many are …
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent an agent to see the out-of-town tryout of "A Raisin in the Sun" to determine if the play had Communist content. The FBI did not do this with every show that…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are Broadway plays about love dating back to 1750,  photographs of stage kisses dating back to 1887, and recaps of some of my love and kisses po…
For the next two days (February 13th and 14th), the following productions are offering free tickets for certain seats at various future performances, courtesy of Goldstar’s Comp Train,…
Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater. Looking at some of the faces below of the people who …
Off-Broadway Week starts today, offering two tickets for the price of one to 34 shows playing Off-Broadway, through February 24th. The shows range from musicals that have been running for de…
Watch musical numbers from each of the nominees for the Grammy for best musical theater album of the year: The Band’s Visit, Carousel, Jesus Christ Superstar, My Fair Lady, and Once on…
Paul Zimet came up with the idea for Talking Band’s 57th show, “City of No Illusions,” when he met two sisters who own a funeral parlor in Buffalo, New York. “They ta…
The strange doings in Virginia have brought blackface back in the news. Reaction to the unearthing of a photograph on the 1984 medical school yearbook page of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam att…
More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War. On May 17, 1968, t…
Theater is not the only activity vulnerable to bad reviews. A sportswriter called last Sunday’s football game “the worst Super Bowl ever…” (“boring, lame, no…
