5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"Fade" is a play about the bond that develops between a Mexican-born TV writer and a Mexican-American janitor at the studio. Its author, Tanya Saracho, is a Mexican-born TV writer/producer w…
From magazine and newspaper covers to posters and cartoons to Super Bowl commercials and Saturday Night Live skits, there is a growing graphic protest against Trump and his policies, much of…
The original Schuyler sisters of “Hamilton” – Phillipa Soo (soon to be back on Broadway in Amelie), Â Renee Elise Goldberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones — Â will sin…
It's best to start your activism young, advises Celia Keenan-Bolger, an actress nominated three times for Tony Awards, who grew up in a family of activists. That way, "it's like your …
How closely were you paying attention to the New York theater news on and off stage in January? Take these 10 questions and see. (The photograph of Mary Tyler Moore, from “Whose Life I…
Below is my 2009 review of Superior Donuts, the play by Tracy Letts, which opened on Broadway on October 1, 2009, and closed on January 3, 2010. A new TV series of the same name, starring Ju…
Broadway this month will see the opening of two starry musical  revivals by two of the reigning composers of musical theater — Stephen Sondheim (86) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (68) …
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
Scenes from BroadwayCon 2017 Previews of Anastasia, Amelia, Come From Away, Significant Other etc.; A surprise Q and A with Lin-Manuel Miranda via live video from London, followed by the int…
Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared at BroadwayCon 2017, via FaceTime from London. Do you have any advice for people pursuing theatre in college? Lin-Manuel Miranda: The answer is this: Study all th…
“This has been a tough week, but we’re in a safe space,” said one of the organizers of BroadwayCon 2017, the second annual convention of theater fans, this time held in the…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984 “ reportedly have soared after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, talked about "alternative facts." It's not her…
“La La Land,” the musical tribute to Los Angeles, leads The Academy Award nominations with a record-tying 14, Lin-Manuel Miranda received an Oscar nomination for best o…
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
The theater community in New York and across the country countered a depressing week coming out of Washington D.C. (#potentialgrizzlies, #alternativefacts) with events signaling resistance b…
Eleven years after his death, playwright August Wilson answers Donald Trump's bleak depiction of "inner cities," with "Jitney," the first play Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century C…
People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see …
My 101-second video of the Ghostlight Project, in which people gathered in theaters in all 50 states to create light for dark times ahead. I focus on the small, moving ceremony outside the C…
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
The story of Inauguration Day, which arrives this Friday, has become almost as much about culture as politics. The list of performers who declined an invitation to perform at official…
