5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
As Polly Noonan, Edie Falco, late of The Sopranos and Nurse Jackie, can make almost any show more engaging than it would otherwise be, even a relatively sedate one like "The True,"… Ex…
Karma, a "dirty little hood rat" of 17, is looking for her missing former foster brother Terrell, though she didn't know him long and he didn't like her much. He was, however, all she had. T…
2018 Theatre Hall of Fame inductees: Actors Rene Auberjonois, Christine Baranski, Cicely Tyson Playwrights Maria Irene Fornes, David Henry Hwang, Adrienne Kennedy Director Joe Mantello Produ…
Although billed as "an intimate immersive production," what "Stars in the Night" actually offers, at its best, is the exact opposite — a spectacular public setting. An audience of no m…
When Jenna Gavigan made her Broadway debut at age 16 as a member of the ensemble in the 2003 revival of Gypsy, she shared the stage at the Shubert Theater not just with stars Bernadette Pete…
“I think there has been a growth in Trump fatigue,” says Tony Stinkmetal, who admits that he himself shares it — which is why it's surprising that he has created a show cal…
The full title of "Collective Rage," Jen Silverman's playful, bawdy, and episodic genderqueer/feminist/lesbian comedy about five women named Betty, is 47 words long. Only once does it includ…
Nathan Lane and Andrea Martin will star on Broadway in “Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus,” a new comedy marking the Broadway debut of acclaimed theater artist Taylor Mac.…
Sandbags and British flags abound in the air raid shelter where we have gathered, in the basement of London's Ambassador Hotel in 1940, in the midst of the Blitz of London. This is a fine se…
The Culture Wars in America began, according to a new show running from September 13-30 at La MaMa called "THE AЯTS,"  on May 18, 1989, when Senator Al D'Amato of New York ripped up an…
Lee Breuer and Bob Telson’s glorious gospel musical, an inspired retelling of Sophocles’ "Oedipus at Colonus" as if it's an African-American Pentecostal church service, debute…
Seven years after "War Horse" appeared on Broadway, New Yorkers are getting another British stage adaptation of another young adult novel by Michael Morpurgo about the horrors of World War I…
Before Hershey Felder says or sings or plays the piano as Irving Berlin, there are signs that, in this one-man show about arguably the greatest of American songwriters, we're in for an eveni…
The Village Voice shut down on Friday after 63 years. The Obie Awards, honoring Off & Off-Off Broadway, which the Voice launched in 1955 and still co-sponsored, will continue, acc…
It was while attending the current revival of Lillian Hellman's 1936 play "Days to Come," which is set during a strike at a brush factory in Ohio, Â that I suddenly wondered: Where are the…
Off-Broadway in the Fall promises a new musical with book by Conor McPherson and music by Bob Dylan (“Girl from the North Country”); Glenn Close  as Joan of Arc's mother (&…
Sarah Bernhardt returns to Broadway, in the person of Janet McTeer, in a new play by Teresa Rebeck about the actress's pursuit in 1899 of the role of Hamlet. ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet” i…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these 11 questions and find out.
Police in the United States shot and killed 36 unarmed black men in 2015; 18 in 2016; 19 in 2017, and 12 so far in 2018, according to the Washington Post. In "Scraps," Geraldine Inoa, mak…
Below is a list of movies opening from September to December, organized chronologically by release date. Among the movies featuring theater veterans: Oscar Isaac  in “Operation Fina…
"Remnant," according to Theater Mitu's director Ruben Polendo, is a meditation on war, death and loss. It is Mitu's first piece in the first building that the 20-year-old company can call it…
Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon (nine minutes after the first, Neil Armstrong), 50 years ago next summer. "No one will think of them as 'the first men on the moon.'Neil wi…
Playwright Neil Simon, who dominated Broadway with his many comedies for more than two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 91. His is the latest death of a theater artist in a week full of…
Lillian Hellman herself described "Days to Come," her 1936 play about labor strife and family conflict, as "an absolute horror of a failure." She wrote it two years after her first Broadway …
Leonard Bernstein, who was born on August 25, 1918, was “the greatest pianist among the conductors, the greatest conductor among composers, the greatest composer among pianists,”…
