5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Some 40 Broadway performers (and multi platform celebrities) such as Audra McDonald sang “What The World Needs Now” at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Pa…
So here we are, on our hands and knees in a public square as if we're religious penitents, but most of the people crawling up the steps of Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn are poets and performa…
Theater stars like Kristin Chenoweth, Alan Cumming, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Idina Menzel, Ben Platt, and Billy Porter join in this video of Rachel Platten’s “Fight Song,” ins…
See any and EVERY SHOW at the 20th anniversary New York International Fringe Festival for FREE. Win one of two “Fringe VIP” Passes, each a $500 value —  but priceless…
This shirt (and song) from “Waitress” may sum up for many the week’s news outside New York theater. (See the Laura Benanti video below.) This week in New York theater saw o…
Below, cast members from the Broadway shows Les Miserables, Fiddler on the Roof, and Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, as well as the Marvelous Wonderettes Off-Broadway, sing and dance duri…
"iLuminate," which is running at Theatre 80 through September 4, is a light show in which the lights are portrayed by 11 acrobatic dancers resembling Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who fell in…
The all-female Japanese theater company that is putting on Kander and Ebb's "Chicago" as part of the Lincoln Center Festival through Sunday, was founded in 1913 in Takarazuka, Japan by the p…
When "Motown the Musical" opened on Broadway in 2013, I fell for the show, because of the exciting performances by a cast impersonating many of the stars of Motown Records " Diana Ross and t…
Privacy,a play exploring the death of privacy, is inspired by Edward Snowden's revelations about surveillance. Snowden even appears on stage (via video.) But, for all its alarming info, the …
"Privacy," a play exploring the death of privacy, is inspired by Edward Snowden's revelations about surveillance; Snowden even appears on stage (via video.) But, for all its alarming info, t…
What is the most magical moment you ever witnessed on stage? Answer to win a chance for two free tickets to Wicked on Broadway. New York Musical Festival preview The Week in New York Theater…
“Oslo,” a fascinating play about the surprising story behind the first peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians, arrives at Lincoln Center at a time when we can use som…
An icon sings about an icon. AÂ self-declared "ghetto-hippie-Arab-commie"China doll"Â sings about her mysterious Muslim father. Tinkerbell stars in one musical. Another is based on a rea…
"Small Mouth Sounds," Bess Wohl's play about six characters who are attending a silent retreat , contains almost no dialogue, but it speaks volumes. It is a satire, but it treats its subject…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Wicked for free. The long-running Broadway musical tells the story of "The Wizard of Oz" from the witches' perspective, more specifically from the …
On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr engaged in their deadly duel " recreated nightly on Broadway for the foreseeable future. Four members of the original cast of Hamilton hav…
The original cast of “Hamilton” is breaking up. Lin-Manuel Miranda, Leslie Odom Jr. and Phillipa Soo play their final performances in “Hamilton” today. (Jonathan Grof…
Below is the overture and opening number of the Roundabout’s Broadway production of “She Loves Me,” as live streamed by BroadwayHD on June 30, 2016. The musical starring La…
Now, 38 years after that its Broadway run " and six months after Swados' death at the age of 64 " Runaways has been revived as part of Encores Off Center, the summer version of the long-runn…
Broadway musicals that take American history as their subject have been called a "vastly underexplored genre"…until recently. Which is your favorite?
Four New York museums are taking advantage of a certain Broadway musical's success to offer summer-long exhibitions and programming focused on Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton is not the only sh…
"Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel," Samuel Johnson famously said in 1775, one year before America's first Fourth of July, the day that Congress officially adopted the De…
The list below includes two Broadway shows but only a handful Off-Broadway. If July looks sparser than most months, that's because the list below doesn't the summer theater festivals, the FR…
Barbara Cook, who is now 88 years old " the exact number of keys on a piano " has three distinct stories to tell in her new memoir, "Then and Now" (HarperCollins.) The first is about a poor,…
