5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, which were announced Tuesday. How well do you know the nominees. How much were you paying attention to the season?
Yes, we now debate theater nominations and await the awards, but the shows must go on in May. That includes just one play on Broadway — the first of the 2018-2019 Broadway season and s…
Mean Girls’ and `SpongeBob SquarePants: The Musical’ lead nominations for the 2018 Tony Awards, with 12 nods each, followed by Angels in America, The Band…
The Broadway 2017-2018 season has ended, and the New York theater award season has begun. The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow. The Week in New York Theater Reviews Ranked,…
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope's saloon a…
Yes, Denzel Washington is the reason audiences are drawn to the fifth Broadway production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, just as the hopeless drunks who inhabit Harry Hope's saloon a…
In the ninth Broadway production of George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," director Daniel Sullivan has assembled a skillful cast of 19 to offer what feels like a straightforward history lesson…
“Carousel” leads with six nominations for The Chita Rivera Awards for choreography and dance. The winners of the awards (formerly called the Fred and Adele Astaire Awards) wil…
In the first scene of Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, the Irish novelist James Joyce, and the Romanian avant-garde artist Tristan Tzara are all sitting…
What if Harry Potter hadn't existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the five and a half hour play now on Broadway about two generations of Potters and their friends and…
Click on any photograph by Manuel Harlan or Matthew Murphy to see it enlarged and read the captions. What if Harry Potter hadn't existed until now? What if Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,…
Carousel, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Mean Girls got the most nominations in the 63rd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broad…
Lincoln Center's sumptuous fourth Broadway revival of "My Fair Lady," the supremely tuneful and witty 1956 Lerner and Lowe musical adapted from George Bernard Shaw's pointed 1913 play "Pygma…
"SpongeBob SquarePants"has received 11 nominations for 2018 Outer Critic Awards, more than any other show, followed by "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" with ten, and "My Fair Lady"�…
Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need from…
Cristofer, one of the two bright but poor Bronx-born students who are vying for a scholarship in Lucy Thurber's play "Transfers," Â lashes out at one point at the advisor who has been tryi…
Summer features 23 of Donna Summer's songs, including such dance hits as "Hot Stuff" and "Last Dance," that a talented cast performs in glitzy disco drag. That may be all some fans need f…
Five shows are officially opening on Broadway over the next five days, ending the 2017-2018 Broadway season April 22: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child April 23: Summer: The Donna Summer Mus…
Why was the great actress Sarah Bernhardt, who performed in and/or produced more than 40 shows on Broadway, never even nominated for a single Tony — nor any other major New York theate…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 84th annual Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The nominees were ann…
Fifteen Broadway shows have opening dates in March and April, 2018, the bulk of the 2017-2018 season. Tickets are made available to them for as little as $10, but more often about $40, which…
“The Cost of Living” by Martyna Majok wins the 2018 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. “The Minutes by Tracy Letts and “Everybody” by Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins were selected…
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Thomas Eak…
The new "Carousel" has the most glorious singing on Broadway, as well as thrilling choreography and picturesque sets and costumes that seem lifted from great American paintings by Tho…
Elephants might become extinct in 20 years because of poaching for their ivory, we learn from "Mlima's Tale," the unusual new play by Lynn Nottage, the Pulitzer prize winning playwright of R…
