5,774 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
On December 1, 2014, the Wall Street Journal published the following article by Joanne Kaufman, who “writes about culture,” in which she admits to having left at intermission at …
Bradley Cooper is shirtless and in boxer shorts when we first see him on stage as John Merrick in director Scott Ellis’s competent production of Bernard Pomerance's play "The Elephant …
During intermission for "The Illusionists – Witness the Impossible," which is a loud magic show making a six-week stop at Broadway's Marquis theater as part of a 32-city U.S. tour, I v…
Songs OVERTURE TENDER SHEPHERD I GOTTA CROW! NEVERLAND I'M FLYING! PIRATE MARCH VENGEANCE (a new song for Captain Hook) PIRATE MARCH (reprise) HOOK'S TANGO WENDY HOOK'S TARANTELLA I WON'T GR…
Scott Ellis, the director of “You Can’t Take It With You,” the soon to open “Elephant Man,” and the forthcoming “On The Twentieth Century,” is offer…
Two Broadway shows " The Illusionists and The Elephant Man " are opening in December, as are a handful of Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway# plays and musicals. (The bulk of the …
There’s been so much promotion for Peter Pan that it feels as if we’ve seen it already — and of course, we have, starting back in December, 1904, with the first stage Peter…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater this month? Take these dozen questions and find out.
Emma Stone is making her Broadway debut performing as Sally Bowles  in Cabaret thru February 1, 2015. Stone, 26, is best known for her movie roles in The Help and the Amazing Spider…
My Broadway gift guide has proven popular enough in the past couple years that I am updating it for 2014, with information on theater tickets, theater subscriptions, play scripts, cast re…
Broadway’s schedule is irregular this Thanksgiving holiday week. Below is the calendar, with links to my reviews. Only three shows will have a performance on Thanksgiving Day, but …
A week full of openings, Great Britain celebrated #LoveTheatre Day, Â Elaine Stritch remembered, Mike Nichols mourned, and I’ve given into the promotional fever and include trailers …
Glenn Close returns to Broadway after an absence of many years, as Agnes to John Lithgow’s Tobias, Â a wealthy middle-aged couple whose seemingly serene suburban existence is reveale…
Move over, Encores! In their second musical restoration after Sondheim and Lapine's Passion last year, the Classic Stage Company now brings us Rodgers and Hammerstein's Allegro, billed as th…
The rowdy brothers of Young Jean Lee's play "Straight White Men," play a board game called Privilege, where Jake draws a card that says: "What I said wasn't sexist/racist/homophobic because …
Daisy and Violet Hilton, twin sisters permanently connected at the hip by a ribbon of flesh, were spectacularly popular entertainers in the 1920's, so it seems fitting that "Side Show," a mu…
Several years before Simon Stephens adapted "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" for the stage (now on Broadway), the playwright wrote the far more in-your-face "Punk Rock," a…
They've asked us not to reveal the ending of "The River," a play by Jez Butterworth (author of "Jerusalem") starring Hugh Jackman as a man who likes to fish. But I'm not sure what difference…
It took me nearly to the end of "Our Lady of Kibeho," a play by Katori Hall based on a true story about three Catholic schoolgirls in 1981 Rwanda who reported having a vision of the Virgi…
“The theater is the only institution in the world which has been dying for 4,000 years and has never succumbed,” John Steinbeck said, and I quoted on Twitter several times in the…
My first Tweet as @NewYorkTheater, five years ago today: Check out New York Theater on Facebook too http://tinyurl.com/yzjyg7e — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) November 14, 2009 Fi…
Broadway Revealed: Behind the Theater Curtain, an exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center through January 31, offers an odd glimpse of what goes i…
Heidi Schreck, the playwright of "Grand Concourse," is also an actress who performed in Annie Baker's "Circle Mirror Transformation" and served as actress and writer for the Showtime series …
So much theater about theater has opened on Broadway in the last few weeks that it feels like a declaration of surrender – let’s just cater to the (ever-shrinking) in-crowd ̵…
There are dangers in creating a fictional work for stage or screen about a real person, as playwright and screenwriter Doug Wright explains: “Whenever you write about a historical figu…
