5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Below is Atlantic Records' newly released cast album of the Broadway musical "Just in Time," which stars Jonathan Groff as 60s crooner Bobby Darin " and below that two videos of Groff's sing…
"Mamma Mia," reopening today on Broadway after a ten-year absence, is much the same confection: same silly plot, same disco-era earworms by the Swedish pop group ABBA, same high-energy chore…
I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by c…
While the real Zohran Mamdani began a "Five Boroughs Against Trump tour" this week,  the children's book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. In Zoh…
Ariana DeBose to star in Stephen Schwartz musical. Rosie O'Donnell has her say far away. A Chorus Line at 50. Ephraim Sykes at #Hamilten block party Stars are what sell shows in New York, mo…
Miles Davis comes back to life through an encounter with current trumpeter Jay Phelps in this play that inventively mixes live music, biography, history, even musicology, to illuminate the s…
Will "Hot Mess" be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway " and the second Broadway musical, after "Six," to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?   The…
The Royal Mile, the wide cobbled road between the Edinburgh Castle and the Holyrood Palace, is lined with Parliament, Cathedrals, pubs, and, every August since the launch of Fringe Street Ev…
I was ultimately so thrilled and so moved by "Down to Chance" that, right after leaving the show, when I saw two strangers who happened to be holding a flyer for it, I described the play wit…
Rosie O'Donnell does eventually talk about her longtime feud with "Mango Mussolini"; she also makes a brief and self-effacing reference to her film career; she is of course often laugh-out-l…
The 20 venues operated by TheSpaceUK are presenting 479 shows at this month's Edinburgh Fringe Festival " as Xhloe and Natasha put it, "comedy, music, theater, musicals or some terrifying fr…
All three shows are oddly connected, and not just because I saw them on the same day at Summerhall, the former veterinary college that is the venue with the most character at the Edinburgh F…
I'll start with the two shows about gay royals, both featuring unmentionable titles and intimate kisses. One,  by Jordan Tannahill, ended its run at Playwrights Horizons over …
What was Mrs. Lovett's life like before she met Sweeney Todd?  I thought immediately of the moment she decided to start baking her pies using an unprecedented ingredient, thus turning …
At the end of this, their latest camp adventure,  Linus Karp and Joseph Martin announced that they would be getting married August 16th on stage at one of the Edinburgh Fringe Festi…
Abigail and Shaun Bengson got married three weeks after they met, but rather than just feeling joy in finding the love of her life, Abigail felt great anxiety, because she had had a dream wh…
Amid the trans comic,  mute comic, pigeon comic, queer ballet, youth theater performing from "A Chorus Line," political theater and a Broadway choreographer's new musical about famous …
Celebrating its fortieth season at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Gilded Balloon, one of the Big Four venue operators, presented previews of a dozen acts " mostly comedians (including the MC, …
How do you follow Elizabeth Taylor? That was the challenge for Kayla Boye, whose solo show at the 2021 Edinburgh Fringe, "Call Me Elizabeth,"Â Â nailed Taylor's appealing if complicated …
Australian performer Marcel Cole brings a grace and ingenuity to a story that's been told often, although not with great success: The 2012 Broadway musical "Chaplin" starring Rob McClure (fe…
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in August, including two shows on Broadway, one of them a revival of the long-running "Mamma Mia." But they are overshadowed by a 400-year-ol…
Gertrude Stein is famous as an early champion of writers like Ernest Hemingway and artists like Picasso (whose  "Portrait of Gertrude Stein" is a prized possession of The Metropolitan …
Soliana the contortionist performed from one of the nine shows out of 160 that will be presented this year at Underbelly, one of the Big Four venue operators at the Edinburgh Festival Fri…
Yes, I can tell you how to Fringe, even though I've just arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland for my first-ever visit; it's the beginning of "Week 0" of the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe an…
Summer is a time for Fall season announcements " Under the Radar, Atlantic, Bushwick Starr, below " and for travel:  I went to Malta, and wrote Toward A New Understanding of Immersi…
