5,772 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
The Father, a deliberately disorienting new play starring Frank Langella, is the second work that I've seen on a New York stage in the last two months that focuses on a character struggling …
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
Nathan the Wise, a fascinating old play that recalls an era when Jews, Muslims and Christians got along, begins at Classic Stage with an acknowledgement of the present: All the actors are ar…
"Hamilton The Revolution," published April 12, 2016, has a long subtitle on the frontispiece in the style of 18th century literature: “Being the complete libretto of the Broadway Music…
Politics has invaded New York — and New York theater — even more so than usual this week. The Stop Cats movement is a prank " as (Andrew Briedis)Â Annoying Actor Friend explain…
Joel Grey, he tells us in "Master of Ceremonies," is "one of only eight people to win both the Tony and the Academy Award for the same role" " in his case the Emcee in "Cabaret." It's the ro…
Anne Washburn's new play sounds like the premise for the movies The Big Chill and The Return of the Secaucus Seven " a group of old friends reunite in a bucolic ranch house in the Texas Hill…
August Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents, Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein were among the winners in the UK’s 40th anniversary Olivier Awards, named aft…
Are theatergoers fools for April? Â We’ve survived some dopey April Fool’s Day jokes (Google’s Mic Drop; Brokelyn’s promise of a free Hamilton concert) and one hila…
What Andrew Schneider achieves on stage literally using smoke and mirrors leaves theatergoers as astonished as 19th century audiences must have felt watching Lumière’s "Arrival of the…
This month only seven shows will open on Broadway — “only” because April is usually the most intense of theater-going months. (Last April there were 14 Broadway openings.) …
Of some 100 productions of The Crucible scheduled this year in the U.S., director Ivo van Hove's eerie, often enigmatic but periodically powerful Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's most fre…
Alexander Hamilton is not a character in "1776" " and John Adams, the central character in "1776" is not a character in "Hamilton." But both are entertaining history lessons about the foundi…
The Humans received the most nominations this year, six. Futurity, Guards at the Taj and John all received five. The 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadwa…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in March? Answer these ten questions to find out. Tagged: Akosua Busia from Eclipsed, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Patty Duke R…
In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
In Head of Passes, Phylicia Rashad portrays Shelah, a woman so religiously devout she objects to Deviled eggs. Her faith is tested in the Public Theater's well-acted, richly atmospheric prod…
World Theatre Day messages: “The very act of theatre-making is a fundamentally utopian act….[P]erformance is creating community. . In this time of profound discord..how do we …
After collaborating on two bluegrass albums, Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, two celebrated Texas-born talents, decided to create a musical around the songs. The result is …
Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
Dry Powder is a play about a private equity firm that tries to buy a luggage company, but it is not as dry as it sounds, and not just because its cast includes John Krasinski (formerly of Th…
Is falling in love just a chemical response that you can recreate in the laboratory? That's one of the fascinating questions addressed in The Effect, a play about two volunteers in a clinica…
Hamilton, Taylor Mac, Broadway Black, Lupita Nyongo in Eclipsed, Playwrights Horizons, Mark Rylance, Timothee Chalomet in Prodigal Son, Cynthia Erivo in The Color Purple, Lois Smith — …
"Shock," Michelle Williams says, as Jeff Daniels rushes her into the messy break room of an antiseptic corporate office, alarmed. It's the first word in "Blackbird," a play by David Harrower…
