5,774 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
With the help of Tony-winner James Corden and lots of backdrops, Tom Hanks acts out the movies in which he has starred over the last three decades, from Splash (1984) to Saving Mr. Banks (20…
This year’s American Theatre Critics Association conference is taking place in New Orleans, to coincide with the 29th annual Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival, March 25 …
It's March Madness for theatrical birthdays. Good morning. Happy birthday. pic.twitter.com/PCXwjaZVMb — Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 22, 2015 Happy 100th Birthday, Patricia M…
It was only at the end of "Posterity," Doug Wright's new play that imagines the real-life encounter between Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen and a sculptor doing a bust of him, that the poin…
Melissa Hillman has written a new essay, The Lies We Tell About Audience Engagement, that is both inspiring and infuriating. One of the smartest theater writers on the Internet, Hil…
All that's right and wrong with “The Heidi Chronicles,” the 1989 play by the late playwright Wendy Wasserstein getting its first Broadway revival, is on display in a scene that t…
Theatergoers in the know have already seen these four shows closing Off-Broadway by the end of March, 2015 " or meant to see them. This is the last chance in New York. (Two of them are going…
Kristin Chenoweth may have paused at the new opening date for “On The Twentieth Century” – the Ides of March. Her co-star Peter Gallagher had been out sick, and Chenoweth h…
Train travel is hot again, at least at the (ironically named) American Airlines Theater, where "On The Twentieth Century" turns out to be one of the funniest and most entertaining shows on B…
In playwright Jennifer Haley's cleverly imagined, disturbing future — just a step or two ahead of our present — people lose themselves in a virtual world. "Your login reco…
Ticket Giveaway: Win a pair of tickets to see The Lion starring Benjamin Scheuer, the much-praised solo show running through March 29th at the Lynn Redgrave Theater at Culture Project.…
“The Audience,” a middle brow British export starring the quick-change artistry of Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth, imagines what happens during Her Majesty's private weekly m…
In their Broadway acting debuts, Oprah wants to be happy; Bruce Willis is going for Misery. And much that happened this week in New York theater is somewhere in-between. Several days left to…
The captain of the slave ship, afraid that the sick woman would infect the rest of his cargo, lashed her to a chair and lowered the chair into the sea, drowning her. "After the captain threw…
Fish in the Dark,” which marks Larry David’s Broadway debut as a writer and performer " indeed his first stage performance since the eighth grade — feels like a couple of e…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Chita Rivera and Roger Rees in The Visit, “a stunning tale of young love, timeless seduction, and sweet revenge.” The Visit marks the fina…
In the dark about Fish in the Dark, Larry David’s new Broadway comedy about two brothers struggling to deal with the death of their father, which opens on March 5th at the Cort Theater…
The Sound of Music premiered in movie theaters 50 years ago today, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, an anniversary marked far more prominently than the opening of this Rodgers…
Today is Justin Bieber’s 21st birthday, which he reportedly celebrated by renting out an island in the Caribbean (see below.) But now that he has reached his majority he surely will se…
Four Broadway shows are opening in March, marking the return of Dame Helen Mirren after 14 years and Larry David’s first stage appearance since the eighth grade. Another 18 openings ar…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater-related news in February? Answer these 11 questions to find out. Some are theater-related questions involving the Grammys and the O…
“Into the Woods” director Rob Marshall introduces “She’ll Be Back,” the new song Stephen Sondheim wrote for the film adaptation of his musical — and expla…
If and when future theater nerds recall “Brooklynite,” the musical about superheroes in Brooklyn that has now opened at the Vineyard Theater, my bet is that we'll see it as an ea…
“Why can't white people and black people just get along?” Jaclyn asks her boss, who is secretly trying to get her fired. That this question remains so current surely explains how…
Even before it begins, the astonishing revival of "Big Love," one of Charles Mee's most popular plays, surrounds us with a soothing and soaring beauty. The set by Brett Banakis is, per Mee's…
