5,903 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
2013 has been an amazing year in theater in New York City, and, rather than waiting another month, Thanksgiving seems the right time to express one’s gratitude with a top 10 list. As i…
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices. H…
After the Tony Awards broadcast, the Thanksgiving Day Parade is probably the best opportunity for television viewers to see performances by current casts of Broadway shows. But the week of T…
The Broadway production of “Waiting for Godot” sells itself, which is a relief, since it means I won't have to sell it. Its two stars, British actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir …
In “Regular Singing,” the fourth, final and most emotional play in Richard Nelson's pioneering Apple Family series, a character says that the assassination of JFK was one of the …
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today, an event that will be memorialized around the country — a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where…
The three male witches are the stars of the Lincoln Center production of Macbeth on Broadway, even though Ethan Hawke plays the title character, according to several of the reviews on openin…
Small Engine Repair feels like an hour-long acting lesson, full of fast, tough and jocular exchanges. The problem is that John Pollano's play is 70 minutes long " and the last ten minutes tu…
Kissing Spider-Man goodbye: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will close January 4, 2014, after a tumultuous three years of breaking all sorts of records nobody would want to break " as well as …
The 271 words of the Gettysburg address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863 (150 years ago today), are read in this Ken Burns video by 25 people: Presidents Barac…
Win the original cast album and  two free tickets to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation of a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace by …
All The Way, the play about LBJ starring Bryan Cranston that has announced it will open on Broadway this season, doesn’t have a Broadway theater or an opening date yet, but it does hav…
Jefferson Mays dies eight times in "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a musical now opened on Broadway whose story is familiar to those who have seen the 1949 Alec Guinness movie, "Ki…
Aladdin, Disney's new stage musical with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, etc.) currently playing in Toronto, will begin performances on Broadway at the New Amsterdam on February 26, an…
Billy Crystal reprises his autobiographical one-person show, 700 Sundays, through January 5, that he presented on Broadway in 2004. Many of the reviews are positive, although some feel the s…
Win two free tickets to see The Winslow Boy, a well-reviewed play currently on Broadway about the true story of a father who fought to clear his son’s name, and the effect it had on hi…
Fun Home, a remarkable musical now running at the Public Theater through December 15,  swiftly lays out what it seems to be about, when a middle-aged Alison compares herself to her fa…
“Before something can be brilliant, it first has to be competent” — from list of lessons learned in Song of Spider-Man, newly published memoir by Glen Berger, book writer o…
After a Romeo on a motorcycle, Macbeth in an insane asylum, and Julius Caesar in a women's prison, Mark Rylance decided to bring his own high concept to Shakespeare's plays " presenting …
"Domesticated," Bruce Norris's comedy about the aftermath of a political sex scandal, stars Jeff Goldblum as the politician and  Laurie Metcalfe as his wife, but the clue to assessing …
"Il Divo, A Musical Affair: The Greatest Songs of Broadway Live" is playing for just six performances at the Marquis Theater, and coincides with their release of a new album. The group, whic…
Here is a 31-second video (not counting the 30-second ad) of Carrie Underwood in NBC’s production of Rodger and Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, which will be broadcast o…
"The Jacksonian" by Beth Henley (Crimes of the Heart) is the second play debuting in New York this season to feature a murder taking place in Mississippi. The first, A Time To Kill, b…
A Disney video that presents the music and lyrics of the song from Newsies, Seize the Day in an artful way: “Now is the time to seize the day / Stare down the odds and seize the day / …
Win two free tickets to see Murder for Two, Â a musical comedy/ murder mystery with a twist: One actor investigates the crime. The other plays all of the suspects. They both play the piano…
