5,774 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Davy Rothbart was having a weird day " his boss fired him; a mugger took his wallet and shoes; he couldn't get his car to start – when he found a slip of paper that changed his life……
Outside, on a shingle hanging from the marquee of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Ben Brantley is quoted as saying: "Deliriously Dishy…It's a Hit." But inside, on the stage, Brantley is quo…
While we wait for Stephen Sondheim’s new musical — which the Public Theater has already committed to producing, although there is not even a title yet (see “11” be…
Tonya, the cheeky daughter in "While I Yet Live," has a problem with God (He's "a wee bit passive aggressive, and vindictive") and the Bible ("It's the most violent book I've ever read.") an…
There are three shows on Broadway this season that are theater about theater — The Country House, It’s Only A Play, The Real Thing. What’s your favorite theater about theat…
The feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it's fitting that the play about their quarrel, "Hellman v McCarthy," with the great Roberta Max…
In Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy “It’s Only A Play,” bound for Broadway in 1978 and finally arrived there 36 years later, a group of stars — played by a g…
The Broadway marquees will dim for two theater artists, Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldes, who both died this week – tonight (Wednesday) for Seldes and Friday night for Holder.  …
In their walk around Greenwich Village – the last artist walk of the Elastic City Walks Festival, which has a closing night benefit tonight – theater director Niegel Smith,…
Broadway  is one of the ten greatest streets in America in 2014, according to the American Planning Association, to which the average New Yorker might reply — “Just in 2014…
Like the unusual character at its center, "The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time," a stage adaptation of a beloved book, overcomes a couple of daunting challenges to become….ex…
To help explain how "The Country House" could be so mediocre despite an award-winning playwright's classic inspiration, a first-rate production and an exemplary cast, let's start with a scen…
The lives, loves and letdowns of women in an office in John Van Druten's 1931 play "London Wall" were presented a little differently at the Mint Theater earlier this year than on television …
Finally, the Lear nobody's been waiting for, a Lear for people not in the mood for tragedy, a Lear Light, an economic Lear, cast with just eight actors, who not only portray multiple charact…
Some of the shows opening in October. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged. October is one of the three busiest theater months in New York, with some 40 shows opening sometime this mon…
In "Indian Ink," Tom Stoppard's complex, challenging beautifully acted and sometimes fascinating play about an Englishwoman in pre-independence India, Stoppard does something that sure…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in September? Answer these 10 questions, mostly involving playwrights, and find out. Tagged: playwrights
At the age of seven, David Holthouse was raped by his teenage neighbor. Twenty-five years later, he decided to kill the man " both to avenge the crime, and to prevent any more from occurring…
"Your family and mine … it just wouldn’t work." Alice, the most normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family in the old-fashioned crowd-pleasing comedy "You Can't Take It Wi…
Above is a rare look at the map of the Broadway theaters in the sidewalk of Father Duffy Square, rarely visible through all the feet covering it. Below are links to the entire broadcast of S…
Is this OUR Youth? His sister was murdered six years ago, his rich, abusive father has just kicked him out of the house, and 19-year-old Warren, portrayed by Michael Cera in the crackling Br…
If there's a gimmick to "Love Letters," the Broadway revival of A.R. Gurney's two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century, it isn't the presence of a …
Thrilled at intermission by the new stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's "Scenes from A Marriage," I poured out my enthusiasm about director Ivo van Hove's unusual staging to my ex, whom I h…
Here are the list of winners of the 10th annual New York Innovative Theatre Awards,  chosen from some 2,000 Off-Off Broadway (aka independent) productions.  Nominated this y…
In "The Money Shot," a comedy by Neil LaBute whose humor rests largely on the playwright's contempt for the two Hollywood couples he has created, it takes more than an hour for the audience …
