5,897 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months b…
Rehearsals have begun for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, which will open at the Lyric Theater on Broadway on April 22, following up on J.K. Rowling's characters 19 years after her last n…
The Prototype Festival, which showcases what it calls contemporary opera-theater and music-theater, opened its sixth season last night with an opera called "Acquanetta," inspired by a cult h…
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical Once, first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable …
Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and i…
In a program note for "Mankind," a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct, its playwright and director Robert O'Hara explains that he found insp…
Broadway veterans who won Golden Globes: Rachel Brosnahan, James Franco, Allison Janney, Nicole Kidman, Martin McDonagh, Frances McDormand, Ewan McGregor, Elisabeth Moss, Benj Pasek…
“If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?” Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre pi…
When Andrew Schneider put on his trickster theater piece entitled "YOUARENOWHERE" in 2016, it was a mind-altering experience, changing not just one's perception of reality, but of what theat…
"How To Be A Rock Critic" is a solo play depicting a day in the life of critic Lester Bangs shortly before he died of an overdose in 1982 at the age of 33. If we are to take the title litera…
"If all theatres were demolished tomorrow, would anybody miss them, and for how long?" Several characters said that at different times throughout A Room in India, a theatre piece that had a …
When snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question " how bad will it get? " and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer a snow day discount?…
The Spring 2018 season Off-Broadway promises some thrilling shows, as the preview guide below should make clear. There are new plays by superstar playwrights — Caryl Churchill (about r…
Just one Broadway show is opening this month, Â but January is as usual one of the most robust months for theater in New York, thanks in large part to the January theater festivals. Togeth…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2018 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
Is Mariah Carey our modern Cassandra, prophesizing the future? At the beginning of 2017, Carey, having blamed technical glitches for her disastrous New Year's Eve performance in Times Square…
Here again, celebrating 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,…
The dozen videos below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2017. Anastasia , Once Upon a December Anastasia highlights Jordan Fisher on making …
Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…
Below is a list of theater books, most of which were published in 2017. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categories: 1. Scripts, i…
It might be a stretch to say that the theater community has a special relationship with Donald Trump, or even a special antipathy. But in my looking over the theater news of the past year, i…
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
Anything about "Hamilton" was still popular on NewYorkTheater.me in 2017, nearly three years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. 5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2017 1. The 50 Best Plays of T…
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other theater, as well as parties, concerts,intimate dinners, cruises, and…
