5,774 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Caridad Svich's stage adaptation of Julie Alvarez's poetic and sorrowful novel chronicling the real-life story of the murder of the revolutionary Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic do…
But it is hard to judge the script alone when the production has so much going for it — the fine performances, a six-member cast that includes Estelle Parsons as Margie’s babysit…
How Spider-Man’s mishaps reflect the long history of stage safety Even before Christopher Tierney plummeted some 30 feet off a platform to become the fourth cast member with serious in…
“Elf” the musical, a harmless and occasionally charming stage adaptation that has now opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theater and runs just until January 2, more or less replicates t…
With wine and song, three performers push the genre envelopeIt would be wrong to call Three Pianos a jukebox musical, even though it is a stage show created around a series of old songs. Aft…
It is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
Why the recent boom in theatre about theatre? Patrick Stewart has portrayed a spaceship captain, a mutant, Scrooge, and Macbeth, but the character he’s performing this season on Broad…
Thanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
This modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
Soldiers during World War II line up to visit a prostitute, and one eventually does, in this intermittently intriguing but underdeveloped exercise.
Excerpts from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 2002, in which he mentions the genesis of In The Heights, and quotes from Hamilton. Th…
Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broad…
“Tisch graduates, you made it,” actor Robert De Niro said Friday in his NYU Commencement address. “And you’re f—ed.” But, as he makes clear in his 15-minu…
The woman is speaking directly to me, an arm's length away, as if we know each other: "I'm not blaming you for missing anything, I know it's not your fault," she says, looking right into my …
Al Hirschfeld drew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway for more than eight decades. He drew Hollywood mogul David O Selznick in 1922, when Hirschfeld was 19 years old, and Broadway performer…
"Permission," a play about "Christian Domestic Discipline" (i.e. spanking your wife) is written by Robert Askins, who is also the author of "Hand to God," the Tony-nominated play about a Chr…
Ticket giveaway: See On The Town on June 4th, 2015 for free. The revival, which I love, does justice to a show that made history on Broadway — marking the Broadway debuts of Leonard Be…
Hamilton won the best new American play Obie at the 60th annual Obie Award for achievement Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. James Houghton, who’s departing next year as the artist…
When 14-year-old Charlie (Noah Galvin) starts doing odd jobs for the town's scandalous art teacher Anna Trumbull (Kristine Nielsen), in "What I Did Last Summer," she agrees to pay him 25 cen…
“Even though success is a reality, its effects are temporary,” Don Draper tells Dow Chemical in season 5 of Mad Men, the TV series that is ending tonight in its seventh season. I…
