5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"Operation Mincemeat" is terribly clever and frightfully British, with a strong next-generation Monty Python vibe. If it ultimately feels too clever by half, that may be because this new mus…
As a band and a brand, "Buena Vista Social Club" has been gold from the get-go: It was a hit Grammy-winning album that in 1996 had brought together an impromptu group of old-time Cuban music…
Playwright Joshua Harmon secretly recorded the last conversation he had with his dying grandmother, during which he told her that his next play was going to be about their family. "Do you ha…
After watching Andrew Scott portray all eight characters by himself in a new version of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya," which is playing Off-Broadway at the Lucille Lortel through May 11, I s…
In "Purpose," an extraordinary play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins (Tony winner for last season's "Appropriate") opening tonight on Broadway in a terrifically acted, crowd-pleasing production tha…
Tickets for "Othello" are selling for $921, even as far back as Row M, which helped the Shakespeare play starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal gross a record-breaking $2.8 million l…
This is a coffee table book put together by a landlord to promote his property. It's also a history of a 112-year-old Broadway theater with a glamorous and complicated past, written by a Ton…
As Helena Alving in "Ghosts,", Lily Rabe seems to do the exact inverse of what Jessica Chastain did as Nora Helmer in "A Doll's House" two years ago. Chastain sat in a chair for the whole sh…
Donald Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center mirrors the attack nine decades ago by the House Un-American Activities Committee on the Federal Theater Project in an arresting way: Like the c…
Seven plays and 11 musicals are opening on Broadway in March and April, over the final six weeks of the Broadway 2024-2025 season, starting Monday and ending on April 27, the final date of e…
Five years ago today, the then-Governor of New York ordered all Broadway theaters closed because of Covid-19, which within days spawned a pioneering era of digital theater.  The …
The current Broadway season is about to rev up, with 18 shows scheduled to open in its final six weeks, but next season is already starting to come into focus: Jean Smart ("Hacks") returns t…
This may be my final hourThis may be the dying dayAnd though they never taught me why in school,I think I'm learning how to pray Jonathan Larson wrote this song, entitled "SOS," when he was …
Anora, about a sex worker in Brooklyn, dominated the 97th Academy Awards, winning best picture, best director, best actress, best editor and original screenplay. Wicked, a film adaptation of…
The night we learn who wins the Oscars may be a good time to show the results of last month's poll ranking which of the best picture nominees could be best (and worst) adapted as play or mus…
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in March, a month that's bursting with shows: Six on Broadway alone " Denzel and Jake in Othello, Kieran Culkin in a Mamet revival, Â Sarah…
How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews this month? Answer these ten questions and see Loading…
Cynthia Erivo will serve as host for the first time when the 78th annual Tony Awards is presented at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday June 8, 2025. This will be the 21st time the ceremony has…
Their mother is dying, which is the only reason why Arnold (Brian J. Smith) has " reluctantly " picked up the phone to answer a call by his half-brother Jerry (Paul Starks.) It's been many y…
How DO Jake and Alice live? The answer is: lyrically. That, anyway, is how playwright Len Jenkin presents their lives in three extended scenes in his awkwardly titled play " as spikey adoles…
"Anywhere" is an hour-long puppet piece that features a marionette who is made of ice, slowly melts, then turns to mist, and finally disappears completely. It mystified me. There are several…
Peter Garside calls himself a demagogue, freely admits he's in politics to make money, and says "the public likes to be fooled."Â Â It's a corrupt attitude that, despite his good looks a…
 The producers of "All in: Comedy about Love," one of the three shows that ended their Broadway runs last weekend, have announced "All Out: Comedy About Life" for next season (venue and c…
Donald Trump took over as chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts " which he told reporters he had never visited " on the birthday last week of Abraham Lincoln, who wa…
When Jeffrey Seller was 18 years old and frustrated at his new job as the drama director at a summer camp for kids, somebody handed him a copy of Moss Hart's 1959 memoir "Act One," touting i…
