5,775 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science”~ Albert Einstein Broadway Sp…
The creators of "Beautiful," the beautifully performed and tuneful new entertainment now opened on Broadway about Carole King's early songwriting career, faced a challenge — the same c…
January is the month for theater festivals in New York – more than at any time other than the summer - and the stars are out this year in them: Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson,…
Off Broadway this season, David Henry Hwang is telling the story of Bruce Lee in Kung Fu. Frank Langella plays King Lear. Actress  Linda Lavin and playwright Nicky Silver pair up ag…
The first poster for the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, featuring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, both making their Broadway debuts. Also in the cast are Le…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2014 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
Five shows have already closed on Broadway in January, but three others are opening this month, the beginning of what looks to be an exciting season. The Week in New York Theater Monday, Dec…
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark ends its Broadway run at the Foxwoods Theater today, after more than three years and 1,200 performances. It has ge…
Zach Braff, making his Broadway debut, leads the cast of the musical theater adaptation of Woody Allen’s movie “Bullets Over Broadway,” about a playwright who gets in bed w…
The two questions theatergoers want answered whether a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Will there be a snow day discount? The winter storm named Hercules, according …
“Theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," Moss Hart wrote in his memoir Act One, which has b…
…We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love -Mayor Bill de Blasio Full text: Thank you, President Clinton, for your ki…
 In "What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined" at the New York Theatre Workshop through February 2, Kyle Riabko, who is 26 , leads a half dozen other good-looking singer-musicians in the…
Sometimes the most magical moments in a work of theater are the ones that are unplanned — the audience suddenly singing along with Cicely Tyson as her character hums a spiritual in The…
How well were you paying attention to theater news this month and this year? Answer these 10 questions to find out. As usual, the information comes from NewYorkTheater.me, especially my Week…
New York theater critics have completed their lists of top 10 theater of 2013. The most picked: Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, Here Lies Love, in that order. Hundreds voted in the poll …
A list of shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises and outdoor events you can still do on New Year’s Eve 2014 in New York City. More than a billion people watch the ball dro…
2013 was, if nothing else, a year of lists. I’ve already put together a list of the most noteworthy (and weirdest) theater stories of 2013. Here is a list of the ten most-read articles…
Why does the first film starring both Meryl Streep AND Julia Roberts, based on a play that won both five Tony Awards AND the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wind up disappointing? There are a coup…
There were more productions of Shakespeare on Broadway in 2013 than at any time since 1958. But it wasn’t just on Broadway that the Bard was big this year. That is I why, for the new m…
Almost all of the 32 Broadway shows currently playing are offering Monday night performances on Christmas week, as well as matinees on the Thursday after Christmas Day. Some are offering a s…
Here are 15 of the longest-running and most popular shows on Broadway, listed alphabetically, with brief descriptions that include my take, and links where available to my initial reviews. T…
The week in theater was one of unusual extremes, with tragic news coming from London one day " the collapse of a theater " followed by news the very next day that delighted Harry Potter fans…