5,843 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Pharus Jonathan Young is black, gay and gifted, like the playwright who created him, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, best known for the Oscar winning film Moonlight. McCraney is making his Broadway …
Lin-Manuel Miranda, director Thomas Kail, theater owner James L. Nederlander, and producer Jeffrey Seller are saving the Drama Book Shop — by buying it, according to an announcement th…
In "Ink: A Piece for Museums,' which ran for two days at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, the musician-storyteller duo of James and Je…
Playwright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it's like to live with, and die from, depression. Now t…
Playwright Sarah Kane killed herself at the age of 28 shortly after writing her fifth play, which offers a harrowing taste of what it's like to live with, and die from, depression. Now two d…
New Saloon, an intellectually playful experimental theater company founded in 2012, returns to Under the Radar with an updated version of their Uncle Vanya adaptation, which they debuted at …
In between the exuberant dancing, lively singing and infectious African beat, the ten Nigerian actresses in "Hear Word: Naija Woman Talk True," wearing the colorful clothing of their country…
As it did last year at the Under Radar Festival, the Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema is charming the audience at the Public Theater by presenting …
"I am a man," says a middle aged white woman, Dominique (Rebecca Gibel), at the beginning of "Real," which you could call a ghost story. "I am a man because it's how you see me. But I wa…
Below is a selection from an Off-Broadway season full of starry faces like Daveed Diggs, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isabelle Huppert, Uzo Adubi et al,  in plays by Lynn Nottage, Suzan-Lori Parks…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. In other words, if you have just one show you could see on Broadway all spring, which of these 15 would it be? The list below is for sho…
Just a couple of plays are opening on Broadway this month — “Choir Boy,” and “True West” — and a handful Off-Broadway, but January is one of the most robu…
When the ball dropped in Times Square, signaling the start of a new year, it took a while for the smoke and the confetti and the fireworks and the rain to clear before we could even make out…
Here again, we celebrate the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White…
Some of the most memorable moments on stage this year were not just unplanned — they were on unexpected stages. The student survivors of Marjory Stoneman Douglas H.S. gave a surprise p…
The 10 videos directly below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2018, arranged in order of popularity. All three videos from “Be B…
Recall what happened in theater in 2018 — some of it just plain weird — by answering these 20 questions, many adapted from my monthly quizzes throughout the year.
Below are the five best reads posted in 2018: an essay about actors’ bodies; a contemplation of what life would be like without theater; a profile of an engineer who fixes theater to m…
Below is a list of theater books to read in 2019, most of which were  published in 2018. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categ…
Yes, 2018 in theater was the Year of Leonard Bernstein (centennial celebrations and new movies underway) and of Andrew Lloyd Webber (who got his EGOT, published his memoir, Unmasked, and got…
Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2018.
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide to events that are still available to do on New Year's Eve 2019 (when 2018 turns into 2019) in New York City New Year’s Eve in New Y…
This is the last Christmas Eve New Yorkers will be spending with Christmas Eve, the character originated by Ann Harada in Avenue Q, because, after 15 years, Avenue Q will close in April. All…
It seems apt that the Up Close Festival at the New Ohio Theater is likely the last work of theater I will see in 2018, because it reminded me what there is to love about theater, and how I c…
My ten favorite individual human performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2018 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews, but l…
