5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
The complete list of nominations for the 97th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2025 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised live on AB…
The odd trial between Hollywood star Gwyneth Paltrow and retired optometrist Terry Sanderson over a 2016 skiing accident was so innately campy that it makes a theatrical parody both redundan…
Those of us who are shellshocked at the political upheaval are faced with a choice " try to ignore, actively escape, or engage? Can theater help us decide, and then help any of those choices…
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose birthday we are officially celebrating today as a federal holiday, spoke about what we need in our leaders during a speech entitled "The Birth of a New Age,…
This wide-ranging anthology begins with an anecdote about the power of the arts to heal political division, and includes a chapter by pioneering theater artist Anna Deavere Smith that, with …
Yoko Ono was already the most famous artist in the Fluxus art movement when she met John Lennon at her Fluxus exhibition entitled "Ceiling Painting (Yes)." We were told this by the trio c…
Both shows promised a hip take on dystopia, with alarming content warnings. They were opening on the same night at different times, both part of the Exponential theater festival, presented a…
This 51-minute play starring a chicken may seem a startling evolution for the political playwright Robert Schenkkan, whose Broadway playwriting debut, "The Kentucky Cycle," was six hours lon…
Why has "Show Boat" been renamed "Show/Boat: A River?" The title change turns out to be typical of what's being billed as a "daring reimagining"Â Â of the 1927 musical. Many of director�…
Bob Dylan hovers over this opera, which tells a story about early 1970s radicals who become fugitives for some three decades. The connection is deliberate if indirect, but Dylan also comes t…
"New York City is where you want to be in January," Pat Kaufman, commissioner of NYC Mayor's Office of Media & Entertainment, said on the opening night Friday of the Association of Perfo…
 Wakka Wakka is back with a new puppet musical, about the adventures of a boy and a dodo bird in the underworld. Compared to the 24-year-old company's past shows, what most stands out …
"KOAL"Â Â begins with the sound of a powerful wind and the crackle of an ominous fire. Inspired by the "Black Summer" wildfires in Australia in 2019, Jacinta Yelland's solo show this wee…
"Telekinetik" is about as unconventional an opera as opera can be, and therefore more or less typical of the Prototype festival, which launched its twelfth annual season Thursday with …
SpaceBridge is a show starring Russian refugee children living in New York City shelters after fleeing Russia because of their families' opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.  It is a…
"For years, I've learned that in reaction to all the hardships, I could do only one thing: run. Run instead of talk, run instead of cry, ru…
Joshua William Gelb, an award"winning pioneer in digital theater, has restaged his earliest Internet hit in what some might consider a logical next step " in person.  But if I fi…
Abigail's mother has just died, but she can't afford to pay for her funeral, so to raise the needed funds she decides to write a play about the death of her mother and the difficulty of affo…
2025 begins as the Year of Wicked. Although the movie won only "best cinematic and box office achievement" at the Golden Globes last night, both it and the stage musical broke box office rec…
"Techne," one of the shows that opened the 20th anniversary "Under the Radar" festival this weekend, reinforces its reputation for theater so experimental it makes you wonder what thea…
Below is a calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including one Broadway show, Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize winning "English," which is transferring intact from an…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, among the 20 that (so far) have firm opening dates on Broadway between now and April 27, 2025, when the 2024-2025 season ends. They are …
There are almost 100 shows produced by the seven annual theater festivals listed below, all of whom begin in January. Largely experimental, avant-garde, mixed-genre, and at much lower ticket…
The year 2025 begins with some short-term questions about theater " the fate of "Warriors," the effect of "Wicked"?" and more long-term ones " what new leadership will mean to Off-Broadway? …
Let us celebrate the new year by honoring these twenty Broadway veterans " accomplished performers, playwrights, producers, directors, composers (at least one of them all those things tog…
