5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
My local supermarket just e-mailed me their weekly deals on raspberries and sushi rolls with the subject head "Always Remember, September 11th." They were not trying to be crass, of course, …
A quarter century after she gained infamy among right-wing critics as the obscene, nude "chocolate smeared woman," performance artist Karen Finley is on stage every Sunday at the Laurie Beec…
"Caught" messes with your head in the most exquisite of ways. In part a send-up of the art scene " the conceptual artist as con artist — it is itself a form of conceptual art, and a se…
"Spamilton," an often clever if uneven spoof of the musical "Hamilton," is like the 26th edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the show that “Spamilton”author Gerard Alessandrini crea…
Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties. I saw Da…
The first shows of the New York theater season actually opened months ago — one has already closed — but now’s the time theatergoers pay attention. So here is my Broadway 2…
During the Fall 2016 season, three of the most celebrated playwrights in America are offering some acclaimed plays: Anna Deavere Smith, Lynn Nottage and Suzan-Lori Parks. That the three are …
For the fourth year in a row, some 200 New Yorkers from all five boroughs are performing this Labor Day Weekend on stage at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park as part of what the Public T…
Politics is in the air, Â and it inevitably lands on the New York stage, with some half-dozen shows opening in September that one could call political theater, including an American presid…
For the last #Ham4Ham, Rory O’Malley brought Renée Elise Goldsberry with Alex Lacamoire and the band to perform “Congratulations,” a song that was in Hamilton at the Pu…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news and reviews in August? Answer these dozen questions and see.
Below are the shows at the 11th anniversary of the Fringe Encore Series, from September 9h to October 29th, 2016 at the SoHo Playhouse (15 Vandam Street), selected from both the …
Mother Emanuel, a celebration of the lives of the nine gunned down in a South Carolina church, and The Radicalization of Rolfe, which looks at the  Sound of Music from the point of view o…
Yes, the summer is winding down, but the theater season is gearing up. Witness the news below of new casts on Broadway, new shows Off-Broadway, and some tantalizing maybes. It’s not to…
"Mother Emanuel" is an earnest, lively play filled with rousing music that celebrates the lives of the nine people who were shot dead at the Mother Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal…
Barbra is a mother with a mission in Kevin R. Free's cartoonish, cleverly convoluted and uncomfortable comedy, "Night of the Living N Word." A daughter of the Confederacy who grew up on an i…
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins used to refer to the city as a gorgeous mosaic. That phrase came to mind for a couple of reasons while I watched "Black and Blue," an ultimately comp…
“The Sound of Music” told from the point of view of a gay Nazi; biographies of three African-American men — W.E.B. Du Bois, Stokely Carmichael, and Richard Pryor. These are…
On her 95th birthday, Muriel Mandell reviews Hamilton and other Broadway shows. “I understand a five-year-old has been reviewing theater, and so I thought, well, why can’t I?R…
In his solo show about comedian Richard Pryor, Â Khalil Muhammad has figured out a novel way both of presenting the man's life and giving a taste of his comic approach. Muhammad doesn't po…
John McDonagh calls his solo show "Cabtivist" because he's been driving a New York City taxicab for 35 years, and because he's been a political activist for almost as long. Maybe he's named …
There are few Americans who made a greater contribution to the nation's cultural, civic and intellectual life in the 20th century than William Edward Berghardt DuBois, who lived an extraordi…
Her daughter Rani has turned 16, and so Chameli is haggling with a customer over the price of what she calls Rani's "first sale" " the first time she will work as a prostitute. "This her hon…
One can count it as a missed opportunity that a show with the title "Power! Stokely Carmichael" tells us so little about the life of Stokely Carmichael, who was the activist credited with po…
After all those sequels and prequels and back stories based on "The Wizard of Oz" and "Peter Pan," isn't it time somebody did the same for "The Sound of Music"? Playwright Andrew Bergh remin…
