5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Below is a list of theater artists who deserved a Tony nomination but did not get one. This is not a compilation of "snubs." The busy Broadway 2024-2025 season was crowded with talent; the T…
Below are the nominations for the 78th Tony Awards, which were announced this morning by Sarah Paulson and Wendell Pierce. The winners will be presented at Radio City Music Hall with host…
"Boop" leads with 11 nominations at the 69th annual Drama Desk Awards announcement by Norm Lewis this afternoon, followed by "Just in Time" and "Maybe Happy Ending" with nine each. The award…
Below is the complete list of the nominations announced for 2025 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway and the movies. The awards will be presented on May 19 …
How well were you paying attention to the 2024-2025 Broadway season, and the final dozen plays and musicals that opened in April by the Tony deadline? Can you identify lines of dialogue and …
Over this past week Broadway has been awash in crooners and corpses, monsters and marauders, immigrants and miners, as the final six shows of the Broadway 2024-2025 season had their opening …
This musical about mostly undocumented immigrants in a L.A. dress factory has heart, something in short supply these days, especially when it comes to immigrants. It also features bellies. I…
"Dead Outlaw," a darkly comic musical that tells the ghoulish true tale about a corpse from the Old West, has been resurrected, opening tonight on Broadway, with the same cast and creative t…
There is a Sinatra vibe that Jonathan Groff nails from the start, when, in shiny tux and tie, he works his way around the café tables of Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater,  rede…
In the lobby gift shop of the Marquis, where Netflix's Broadway version of "Stranger Things" has opened, there is a Demogorgon plushie for sale for thirty dollars. It's not called a Demogorg…
"Death Becomes Her" leads the nominations at the 75th annual Outer Critics Circle Awards, announced this morning by Oh, Mary! stars Cole Escola and Conrad Ricamora at the Muse…
"Pirates!," which opens tonight on Broadway, is billed as a reimagining of Gilbert and Sullivan's 146-year-old comic operetta. But luckily there is plenty it shares with the twenty-six previ…
Before launching into the funny, sweet, sad, slight, sometimes sexually graphic story of his first love, the author and performer of this one-man show introduces himself in telling and trade…
William Shakespeare is said to have been born on this day in 1564. It wasn't until 1750 that there is any record of one of his plays being produced in New York " "King Richard III" " but Bro…
Below are the nominations for the 91st annual Drama League Awards announced this morning by Sarah Hyland and Orville Peck at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Ce…
Amid the busiest time for openings on Broadway and beyond, there is also news of an abrupt closing,  a teased re-opening, and a promising summer theater season mostly outdoors and much…
 "Rheology" begins with a physicist delivering a lecture about sand, with a blackboard full of equations, and equipment (hourglass, sandbox, projections) to illustrate her points. This go…
Deaf Broadway's version of "Waitress." A new show by Suzan-Lori Parks. A 4,000-year-old epic play. Shakespeare on immigration. Monteverdi on race relations. Opera singer Anthony Roth Cost…
Given all the recent announcements of shattered Broadway box office records " which means more theatergoers are paying higher ticket prices than ever before for Broadway shows " below is a r…
Deirdre O'Connell as Dot keeps an imp in a corked old wine bottle, expecting it to work magic " to  grant Dot's wishes, as long as what she asks for is not too selfish. It's true the i…
Azhar Bande-Ali was in a plane that had a mechanical problem that prevented it from landing, which provoked a spiritual problem; Â he worried that the plane would crash, and he would die. …
The first word in this play is "sex." Mr. Smith says it to his teenage students, asking for its definition, which the class then recites in unison, reading aloud from their textbooks. They'r…
Female characters and performers dominated the shows that opened  this past week on Broadway, which the previous week had been dominated by shows featuring male characters and performe…
"Urinetown" co-creator Greg Kotis takes us to another future dystopian society in this small, cheeky musical that's part of the New York City Fringe Festival.  With a banjo-driven blue…
The president of the United States puts a fifty percent tariff on all imported cheese, which leads to war…with Switzerland. That's the premise of "Strike Up the Band," the first of a trio …
