5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Test your knowledge of theater in April. Which play contains the lines of dialogue, which lyric belongs to which musical? Who got what award? In what show is a sexy rock star making his Broa…
Now that the New York theater season has ended officially, the theater awards season steps up. Â What are all these awards? How do they differ? When will the various nominations and award…
"Bandstand," a new musical about a group of traumatized World War II veterans who form a 40's jazz band with a Gold Star widow as their singer, attempts to combine an original score of perio…
Summed up in a single photograph: April 29th marks the 100th day of Donald Trump’s presidency. Here are press accounts and comments. “The tradition of looking to that period as a…
There are moments in Bette Midler's Hello, Dolly that offer unsurpassed entertainment, demonstrating the ideal match between show and star that many people expected when they first heard tha…
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play A Doll's House who slams the door on her husband and three childre…
Laurie Metcalf is the fifteenth actress since 1889 to portray Nora Helmer on Broadway, the character in Henrik Ibsen's play “A Doll's House” who slams the door on her husband and…
Hello, Dolly, Anastasia, and Come From Away lead the 62nd annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. T…
"The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare; neither knew chocolate." That insight by Sandra Boynton (author of "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion") helps explain why w…
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience…
Near the end of Six Degrees of Separation, Allison Janney, portraying the first rich white victim of a young black con man, tells her husband that she doesn't want to turn the experience int…
The Broadway season is not over until the end of this week, but the awards season has already begun. The Week in Theater Awards Sound design Tony categories reinstated for next year They fou…
“Anastasia” and “Hello, Dolly!” lead in the number of nominations for the 2017 Outer Critics Circle Awards, with 13 and 10 respectively, followed by “The Band&#…
Pity Terrence McNally, Tony-winning playwright, charged with fashioning the book of a Broadway musical out of a 1997 cartoon, which turned the Russian Revolution into a fairytale, grinding a…
In dramatizing the legend surrounding the youngest daughter of the last Czar, the show has created a new villain, a Soviet official named Gleb….Anastasia winds up promoting nostalgia f…
So there was Andy Karl, the star of "Groundhog Day," on stage in what's supposed to be a seduction scene, but he was proudly showing off the elaborate black knee-brace on his bare outstretch…
Now we call it racism, sexism and domestic abuse, but it's just everyday life in "The Little Foxes," Lillian Hellman's 1939 play about a rapacious Southern family, which is being given an en…
In her first performance in a Broadway musical in 50 years, Bette Midler opens tonight as the 15th Dolly Gallagher Levi on Broadway, Â in the fifth Broadway production of "Hello, Dolly.…
Below is the full list of the nominations for the 2017 Drama League Awards, which select winners in five competitive categories, and also give special awards. The winners will be annou…
The gay couples at the heart of two separate plays currently running Off-Broadway have been together for years, and yet, neither are married because one partner in each of the relationships …
There are many reasons to find deep satisfaction in the arrival on Broadway of the play “Indecent,” a fascinating tale wondrously staged about a century-old Jewish drama that fea…
Over the next ten days, nine shows will open on Broadway " four new musicals (plus one musical revival), two new plays (plus two play revivals.) How to Get Discount Tickets to Broadway’…
Today's matinee of Groundhog Day has been canceled, and the evening performance will go on with an understudy, after the show's star Andy Karl injured himself at its Friday evening performan…
There are 14 shows opening on Broadway in April, 2017, which are available for as little as $30, even though their full-priced can be 500 percent more than. How? Â Below, listed alphabetic…
Last year, “Oslo,” a fascinating if talky play about the surprising story behind the first peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, ran for a couple of months Of…
