5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
The winners of the Drama League Awards and the Chita Rivera Awards were announced this past week (see results below), and the Obies will be held tonight. Â But they and all the other award…
"What kinda f"in' world is this?" It is the first line in the first scene of "Our Lady of 121st Street," asked by a man in his underwear, ranting to a detective at the Ortiz Funeral Home in …
Harry and Meghan got married this morning. Prince Harry is now the Duke of Sussex, Earl of Dumbarton and Baron Kilkeel. Meghan Markle will be known as Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Susse…
In the original 2011 production of Jordan Harrison's prescient play, a married couple overwhelmed with the stresses and complications of their lives in the city, leave their high-powered job…
Bump, a play by Chiara Atik that is as entertaining as it is informative, intertwines three different threads about pregnancy and childbirth " the most surprising of which turns out to be ba…
Summer begins next week in the city, theatrically speaking. That’s when the first of the summer theater festivals start presenting shows that are cheaper (often free), more cutting-edg…
Now that the hard-working, good-looking students of Stanton High School in dreary Stanton, Pennsylvania have put on the musical "Spring Awakening" Â in the season finale of "Rise," it will…
With the sudden countertrend of shows with long running times — “Light Shining at Buckinghamshire” at New York Theater Workshop (180 minutes), Â “Long Day’s …
Christian Borle clowns like an old-time vaudevillian, Laura Michelle Kelly sings like a classic chanteuse, and director Warren Carylyle choreographs the topnotch cast like a 1930s showman; t…
By the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
By the end of the Broadway revival of Long Days Journey Into Night two years ago, when Jessica Lange as mother Mary Tyrone rejoins her family, she is an ethereal ghost, her mind and body num…
William Inge jumps Tennessee Williams within the first few minutes of meeting him, ripping off his clothes to have sex with him, in "The Gentleman Caller," a new, two-character play by Phili…
Here are the results of the survey in which I asked you to pick your personal preferences (not predictions) in 15 of the 26 categories in the 72nd Annual Tony Awards. Best Play Nominated:Â�…
Dance Nation is a surprise, and a shock, and a delight. Although the characters are a team of 13-year-old competitive dancers from Liverpool, Ohio aiming to win the Boogie Down Grand Prix in…
Dance Nation is a surprise, and a shock, and a delight. Although the characters are a team of 13-year-old competitive dancers from Liverpool, Ohio aiming to win the Boogie Down Grand Pri…
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2017-2018 theatrical season have been given to: Anthony Boyle, Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Jamie Brewer,Â�…
To director Rachel Chavkin, her revival of Caryl Churchill's early play about the English Civil War is a well-timed political work about a failed revolution, whose characters may insp…
To director Rachel Chavkin, her revival of Caryl Churchill's early play about the English Civil War is a well-timed political work about a failed revolution, whose characters may inspire Ame…
Among the surprises during this intense theater award week is the awarding of the 2018 Regional Theatre Tony Award to La MaMa, "for celebrating diversity and helping to introduce the Off…
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child won for new Broadway play,  SpongeBob SquarePants for new Broadway musical in the 68th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards.  Admissions won for Off-…
KPOP won best musical and the best play was a tie between Cost of Living and School Girls, in the 33rd Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Full list:…
Make your pick in the survey below for 15 of the 26 categories in the 72nd annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 10th at Radio Music Hall …
"Summer and Smoke," Tennessee Williams' ripe Southern Gothic tale about a preacher's daughter and her lifelong longing for the doctor's son next door, is being given a minimalist co-producti…
Some theatergoers objected to the changes in “My Fair Lady,” which made it more in line with the #MeToo era — Eliza more independent, and neither she nor Henry Higgins roma…
Some of the 2018 Tony Award nominees who spoke to (or at least pose for) the press. The winners will be announced on June 10th. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged, and find out who t…