5,899 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
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…
I left the Roundabout's largely terrific revival of "She Loves Me" at Studio 54 singing most of the beautiful songs in my head. I'll confess that I also entered Studio 54 singing those songs…
In "The Way West," Mona Mansour's timely black comedy at Labyrinth Theater Company about bankruptcy and the American way, Dierdre O'Connell plays a mother who likes to tell her two grown dau…
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
Darja, the central character in Ironbound, never leaves a barren bus stop on an ugly stretch of post-industrial New Jersey, but Martyna Majok's rich play about a poor immigrant feels always …
Disaster is a campy spoof of 1970s disaster movies mashed up with well-sung snippets of dozens of 1970s pop hits in order to produce moments of hilarity. I counted at least seven such moment…
In It Can't Happen Here, one of the candidates for president of the United States declares "the people are sick to death of political chatter…It's time to ACT" — and promises to "bui…
"This is definitely the room where it happened," President Barack Obama said at the beginning of the daylong visit to the White House of the cast of the Broadway musical Hamilton. The presid…
Near the end of the bluegrass musical "Southern Comfort," a character named Lola Cola visits the parents of her lover Robert Eads to tell them that he has died. "Get off our property," says …
In the revival of "The Robber Bridegroom," a bluegrass musical folk tale, there are two sides to the character played by Steven Pasquale, an 18th century Mississippi Robin Hood " both a Sout…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Bright Star for free. Steve Martin and Edie Brickell's new musical Bright Star opens at Broadway's Shubert Theater on March 24, 2016, with a country a…
"The Royale" is a 90 minute blast of inventive staging that is "loosely inspired" (as we are told in the program) by the life of Jack Johnson, the first African-American to become hea…
In the Heights opened on March 9, 2008 — eight years ago today. By the time it closed exactly 34 months later, it had won five Tony Awards including best musical, and launched the Broa…
The arts operate at the core of human identity…After gravity, culture is the thing that holds humanity in place ~ Cate Blanchett An apt comment for Arts Advocacy Day But is it gravi…
Today begins Americans for the Arts two-day Arts Advocacy Day, #AAD2016. Hundreds of advocates travel to DC to persuade Congress that the arts matter. Here is a graphic that American for …
What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis,"Â one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle,…
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis," one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle, The…
Near the end of his alarming and charming rap guide to climate change, Baba Brinkman, who describes himself as a Canadian tree-hugger and the world's only peer-reviewed rapper, stops his rap…
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner …
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lupi…
Why would Trevor Nunn, director of the musicals Les Miserables and Cats, choose one of Shakespeare's least-revived plays as the first he's staged with an American company, for an audience in…
The news that Tracy Letts’ play, “Superior Donuts,” which was on Broadway in 2009, is being adapted as a TV series starring Broadway regular and Spotlight co-star Bri…
