5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Nightly on Broadway nowadays, one title character professes her love to the other title character: "My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I…
Idina Menzel returns to Broadway as Jesse, a New York gallery owner who, out of grief for the death of her son, leaves her wife and her life, drives cross country, and winds up spending seve…
We already know that "Wicked" would make a good Broadway musical because it IS one. But what about the other nine movies nominated this year for the Best Picture Oscar? Which would make the …
The average Broadway theatergoer is a 42-year-old white woman from out of town whose family income exceeds $275,000. That's one way to summarize The Demographics of the Broadway Audience …
My favorite celebrity commercial during the 2025 Super Bowl weren't selling a product, but promoting an ideal. The others were hawking liquor and condiments.
When Denzel Washington starts performing as Othello later this month on Broadway, he'll be following by exactly two centuries the debut portrayal of "the Moor of Venice" by Ira Aldridge, …
Samantha Sehter is the brains " or the nose? " behind "Scents of the Stage," a brand new company that makes candles that smell like specific Broadway shows " or more precisely, create a scen…
They meet for drinks after an absence of thirty years, still loving one another, and still sharing a secret.  "Still," starring Melissa Gilbert (from Little House on the Prairie) and M…
 In "Mrs. Loman," a misfire of a play that attempts a sequel to Arthur Miller's "Death of A Salesman,"  Willy Loman's widow Linda experiences a somewhat anachronistic awakening, wh…
Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 29 Off-Broadway productions (18 of them newly offered), for performances from February 17 th…
In "The Antiquities," playwright Jordan Harrison offers a dozen stories about the downside of technology through the ages, each from a distinctive year, from 1816 to 2240. If the play can fe…
"Yes, the darkness is loud, but the light is brighter y'all," Brandon Victor Dixon shouted while accepting the Grammy for Best Musical Theater album for "Hells Kitchen," That's somewhat of a…
Hells Kitchen has won the 2025 best musical theater album at the 67th annual Grammy Awards, beating out five other nominees, all current or recent Broadway shows (the third consecutive year …
The 68th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. Below is the complete list, which includes Lifetime achievement awards for Charles Busch, …
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show, "Redwood," starring Idina Menzel, and plenty of star power Off Broadway: Rainn Wilson, Jordan …
"Wicked" and "Hamilton" are back in the news, as is a certain former reality show host; some once little-known stage actors are now….nominees; and there was plenty new and strange on stage…
Sadie is an actress who so hates motherhood that she put together a one-woman show about how her daughter ruined her life; it is one of the reasons her daughter Jude feels Sadie ruined hers.…
Some theater bloggers are responding bluntly to the alarming political moment. Don Shewey lists sources of news that haven't been corrupted by billionaire owners, George Hunka poste…
RFK Jr "lacks any relevant government, financial, management or medical experience. His views on vaccines are dangerous and willfully misinformed. These facts alone should be disqualifying, …
Not everything is offensively fabricated in "Kowalski," an account of the first time Marlon Brando ever met Tennessee Williams, to audition for "A Streetcar Named Desire," the play that woul…
Has it been just a week? It doesn't feel like such a wonderful world right now. So perhaps it's fitting that the Louis Armstrong musical on Broadway with that title announced its closing dat…
This season, there will be two shows starring corpses, two reimagined classics performed by a single actor portraying dozens of characters, two new plays by MacArthur Geniuses, three s…
Hagar is fed up with the state of Black playwriting. "These kids aren't writing anything new. They all keep circling August Wilson. Family dramas are important…but if you've seen one, you'…
"Famehungry" is Louise Orwin's attempt to explain TikTok and demonstrate its appeal " the former intriguing, the latter excruciating.  The 75-minute show is on stage at SoHo Playhou…
When Sanaz Toossi made her Off-Broadway debut with this play about four adult students in Iran taking a class to learn English, even the many who praised it described "English" as "contempla…
