5,903 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Halfway through Rocky, a crowd-pleasing musical that's a faithful stage adaptation of the Oscar-winning 1976 movie, the lights flicker to show Rocky Balboa, his face shrouded in a grey hoodi…
Bryan Cranston made his Broadway debut in All The Way, about LBJ, one of five shows I reviewed this week in a season that's heating up. Â Fiddler on the Roof will play once more on Broadwa…
"If you went away for a week and I spent the whole time in bed with a photographer, would you be mad?" nosy neighbor Marge asks her husband Charlie in "The Bridges of Madison County," the ne…
“Everybody wants power; and if they say they don’t, they’re lying,” Bryan Cranston snarls in “All The Way,” Robert Schenkkan’s play about President …
“Antony and Cleopatra,”which is being given a colorful and ambitiously reworked production at the Public Theater, has a tragic/romantic ending reminiscent of “Romeo and Jul…
“Hello, Dolly is a piece of shit.” This is the voice of Louis Armstrong, after the final concert of his life, as depicted in Terry Teachout's first play, "Satchmo at the Waldorf,…
David Letterman joined the chorus of those making fun of John Travolta’s mispronunciation of Idina Menzel’s name on the Academy Awards. You too can Travoltify your name, via Slat…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see Daniel Radcliffe in his third show on Broadway: The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh, opening at the Cort Theater on April 20, 2014. (Previe…
By the end of Stage Kiss, the man and the woman have kissed 288 times. This is according to the woman's husband, who is a banker and loves numbers, and has not been in on the kissing. In Sar…
Broadway was one of the winners of the 86th Academy Awards. Bobby Lopez won the EGOT — only the 12th person in history to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competitive categories …
On this, the 30th anniversary of This is Spinal Tap, I profile Michael McKean in New York Theatre Magazine. McKean is now playing the villainous J. Edgar Hoover in the Broadway play…
In March, it's possible to attend a Broadway, Â Off-Broadway or Off-Off Broadway opening nearly every single day; many days, there are two; occasionally three! Below is a list, organized c…
Did you know 2014 Oscar nominated director Martin Scorsese directed a musical on Broadway? It was called The Act, it featured music by Kander and Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago) and it starred Liza M…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in February? Answer these 11 questions and see.
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902. He wrote Of Mice and Men, both the story and the play, which is being revived on Broadway starring James Franco, making his Broadway debu…
Here is the poster for a newly announced show on Broadway. Five-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald will play Billie Holiday, for a 10-week limited engagement, in Lanie Robertson's Lady Da…
Fans of Bruce Lee, the martial artist and actor who died four decades ago at age 32, are likely to be delighted at the sheer physical excitement of  ”Kung Fu,” which has opene…
Call it the Upper West Side Story: Â Lin-Manuel Miranda interviewed Rita Moreno about her Oscar-winning role in the 1961 film “West Side Story” before a screening of the film a…
Celebrated Comedian Takes on Villainous Role as J. Edgar in All the Way Wherever he goes, Michael McKean"actor, writer, comedian, … Read More →
“The Bridges of Madison County,” the new Broadway musical based on Robert James Waller’s bestselling novel about the brief affair between Francesa, Â an Italian-born Iowa…
At the end of Caryl Churchill's dazzling experimental play "Love and Information," theatergoers have spent two hours watching 15 actors portray 100-plus characters in more than 60 scenes, so…
President Obama has nominated a new head of the National Endowment of the Arts, Sky the winner of the Westminster Dog Show was cast in Kinky Boots, and Elaine Stritch has started to Tweet. Y…
Seventeen years after “Titanic: The Musical” won five Tony Awards, including Best Musical, the musical will be presented by Manhattan Concert Productions Monday, February 1…
Near the end of "Dinner With Friends," an insightful comedy that restores the word "adult" to its rightful meaning, Gabe confesses to his wife Karen that he's fallen out of love " not with h…
Can any theater define love the way so many songs do? The musical “Aida” did for Starleisha Gingrich.  ”As an African American woman dating a man who is half Irish an…
