5,787 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"He was young, abstract, and therefore cruel," Dostoevsky writes of a character in Crime and Punishment. "Some things are not forgivable: Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable," Blanche says …
Monday, July 16, 2012 One more cast addition to Sondheim’s Into The Woods this summer at the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park: Glenn Close will be the voice of the Giant. Yes, …
Ghost the Musical sent its stars to perform at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert — an unusual move for a Broadway musical; the understudies perform in most of the other mus…
Wicked, which tells the story of the witches leading up to the Wizard of Oz, opened on Broadway on October 30, 2003. Two years earlier, Bryant Park began presenting songs from Broadway shows…
Berry Gordy, founder of Motown records and producer and book writer of the planned Broadway musical “Motown,” is casting a wide net for an actor to play young versions of Michael…
The actor is Richard Fleeshman, star of Ghost the musical, reenacting the pottery wheel scene with a lascivious Sharon Osbourne in a recent appearance on TV's The Talk. His shirt is now the …
The Drilling Company's crowd-pleasing production of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is played as a gentrification battle on the Lower East Side.
For the 14th year in a row, Bernadette Peters and Mary Tyler Moore were hosts of Broadway Barks, the organization they founded that involves Broadway performers encouraging people to adopt d…
In playwright-director Yoshvani Medina's "Probation," at Repertorio Español, first-rate acting rescues a half-baked plot about Cuban immigration to America.
My @BackStageCast review of @RioTheMusical from @NYMF: Propulsive beat, but has Capeman-like problems bit.ly/LOK2VM — Jonathan Mandell (@NewYorkTheater) July 13, 2012
The cast of The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess presented three songs on July 12th as part of the first of six Broadway in Bryant Park concerts this summer, every Thursday through mid-…
As part of the summer Thursday lunchtime concert series in Bryant Park, the Broadway cast of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark sang three songs on July 12. 1. Bouncing Off the Walls 2. Ris…
Cast members from “Phantom of the Opera,” the longest-running show in the history of Broadway, performed today in Bryant Park, the first of a six-part concert series on Thursdays…
"Rio," at NYMF, a tuneful musical with a propulsive beat that sets the story of "Oliver Twist" in the slums of Brazil, is undermined by errant stagecraft.
"Every moment at the theater is magical," Anna Kivela wrote, one of more than 100 theatergoers who responded to the question: "What was the most magical moment you have witnessed on a New Yo…
For the seventh year on the lawn at Bryant Park, the most popular as well as the newest shows on Broadway, and several Off-Broadway, will offer a series of six free weekly concerts over the …
This week saw some beginnings — Â the New York summer theater festival season, Real Raging Bull Jake LaMotta going thespian to thespian with Mike Tyson — but too many endings: …
Marty Pakledinaz, who died on Sunday at the age of 58, designed costumes for 35 Broadway shows over the last three decades, his work nominated ten times for a Tony Award, and winning twice, …
Ernest Borgnine, best-known for the title role of Oscar-winning 1955 film “Marty,” for the 1960′s TV show ‘McHale’s Navy,” and for being married to Ethel …
Daphne Rubin-Vega is playing her fifth role on Broadway, as Stella in Tennessee Williams’ “Streetcar Named Desire,” 16 years after her first and still best-known part, as M…
Even New Yorkers who get out of town every summer know at least three of the most celebrated summer theater festivals in New York City (and the three do not include the New York Musical Thea…
Since 2004 when it began, the New York Musical Theatre Festival has produced some 300 new musicals, including a few that went on to great fame and popularity, such as Next to Normal, Altar B…
Daphne Rubin-Vega made an iconic Broadway debut in Rent. She's back in another famous role in the revival of A Streetcar Named Desire — and there are more classic characters on her…
Here is how Broadway is shaping up so far for Fall 2012. This WILL change: First, a quick chronological list by opening date (if there is one), then alphabetical, with a bit more description…
