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5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"

Broadway Spring 2025 Preview Guide by Jonathan Mandell

Denzel Washington as Othello, Jonathan Groff as singer Bobby Darin, George Clooney as journalist Edward R. Murrow: The Spring Broadway season promises a starry and vibrant mix: original show…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:43pm on December 10, 2024

On Broadway: Justice Jackson! Bridget Everett? On Screen: Playwrights Annie Baker, Jesse Eisenberg. On Video: Adam Lambert, Dick Van Dyke, #SearchforD by Jonathan Mandell

Ketanji Brown Jackson will make her Broadway debut, with a one-night-only walk-on role in the Broadway musical "& Juliet" on December 14, after which she will participate in a talkback. …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:04am on December 9, 2024

A Real Pain. Jesse Eisenberg's film and his 4 Off-Broadway plays that led to it. by Jonathan Mandell

As Benji, Kieran Culkin has no sense of boundaries. On a Jewish heritage tour that he takes with his cousin David to Poland, the country where their grandmother survived the Holocaust, Benji…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 9:34pm on December 8, 2024

The Books of Jacob. A theatrical experiment in six countries that left audiences cutting their brains by Jonathan Mandell

"The Books of Jacob" is a work of theater unlike any I've ever attended, a production more ambitious than any I can remember, one that is almost too complicated to explain. The performances,…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:46pm on December 7, 2024

Top 10 theater closing soon by Jonathan Mandell

"Sleep No More" is closing after almost 14 years, "Blue Man Group" after almost 34 years and more than 17,000 performances. The longevity of these shows strikes me as reason enough to catch …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:31pm on December 6, 2024

Poll: Best Broadway* Cast Recording of 2024? by Jonathan Mandell

Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording of 2024* from among the 16 in the poll below, listed alphabetically. More on each album in links at bottom. Loading… *Two of the albums are not…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 9:03pm on December 5, 2024

Janet Planet: Polarizing playwright Annie Baker makes a movie by Jonathan Mandell

Annie Baker is making her feature film debut as a writer and director some fifteen years after making her New York stage debut as a playwright, and I almost laughed at the déjà vu of it.…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 8:50pm on December 4, 2024

Giving Tuesday 2024: Consider Theater by Jonathan Mandell

On this thirteenth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to a theater company or theater organization in New York City. Below, a sample, li…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:15am on December 3, 2024

Wicked thoughts. Cyber Monday theater deals. Stageworthy News by Jonathan Mandell

"Wicked," a mission for marketers, has become a darling of pundits as well. During the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC, after interviews with Cynthia Erivo (No, she doesn't mind theate…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 2:14pm on December 2, 2024

December 2024 NYC Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in December, including four shows on Broadway, one starring Audra McDonald (Gypsy), two more with love in the title (The Cult of Love;…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 4:28pm on December 1, 2024

Holiday Shows in NYC 2024 by Jonathan Mandell

Holiday shows take center stage between Thanksgiving and New Year's Eve each year. Some of the plays, ballets, operas, concerts, musicals, burlesques, and hybrid entertainments have reappear…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 2:13pm on November 30, 2024

New York Times Notable Books of 2024 picks for theater lovers (sort of) by Jonathan Mandell

Theater seems of little interest to the Times staff who put together the 100 Notable Books of 2024. Published plays are ignored (although books of poetry are included), and their annual l…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 9:26am on November 30, 2024

Theater Quiz for November 2024 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to theater news, views and reviews in November, a month of Wicked and politics, and six Broadway openings? Take the quiz below and find out. Loading…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:17pm on November 29, 2024

Watch Broadway at Thanksgiving Day Parade 2024 by Jonathan Mandell

Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2024 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade; Hell's Kitchen, The Outsiders and Death Becomes Her, and a bonus: Billy Porter leads the pa…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 9:06pm on November 28, 2024

Theater for Which I'm Grateful in 2024 by Jonathan Mandell

The surreal and now shocking election year is arguably responsible for much of my favorite theater in 2024, for which I give thanks, as I've done every Thanksgiving for more than a decade. T…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 8:24pm on November 27, 2024

Stageworthy News: Wicked, Piano Lesson on Screens. Death Becomes Her, Swept Away on Broadway. by Jonathan Mandell

With "Wicked" and "Death Becomes Her" topping  theatergoers' attention in a busy and starry week, Paul Tazewell " the costume designer for both "  is offering lessons in the a…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:20pm on November 26, 2024

Wicked Movie vs Stage Musical by Jonathan Mandell

Wicked, which just had the biggest ever opening weekend for a movie adaptation of a Broadway musical ($160 million + globally), is faithful to the stage musical in several ways, and signific…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:47pm on November 25, 2024

Broadway Thanksgiving Week Schedule 2024 by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2024, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only one show of the 38 currently playing has a performance on Thanksgiving Day, Thur…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 1:57am on November 25, 2024

The Piano Lesson on Netflix. A lesson in film vs theater by Jonathan Mandell

"The Piano Lesson" has always been a family affair. The story it tells is of the legacy of pain and pride in generations of one Black family.  But August Wilson's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-w…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:48pm on November 24, 2024

True Love Forever Review. Third Rail Projects turns the dating game into a dance by Jonathan Mandell

They brought us down Alice's rabbit hole in a former school building in Williamsburg meticulously made over to resemble a mental hospital in Then She Fell, took us to a tropical island resor…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53am on November 23, 2024

The Arts after the Election: What happens now? by Jonathan Mandell

There will be "chaotic, seismic change happening in Washington" as a result of the 2024 Election, with uncertain impact on the arts on a national, state and local level. Arts advocates need …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:42am on November 22, 2024

Death Becomes Her Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"Death Becomes Her," a stylishly macabre Broadway musical comedy about a love/hate triangle, has much the same plot, catty repartee, and even some of the same comically gruesome special effe…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:27pm on November 21, 2024

Babe Review. Marisa Tomei Rocks by Jonathan Mandell

Marisa Tomei, who got her Oscar for portraying a super-competent woman who solves the case for her somewhat-clownish lawyer-boyfriend in "My Cousin Vinny," has a new role Off-Broadway in "Ba…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 7:51pm on November 20, 2024

Swept Away Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

In "Swept Away," which is loosely inspired by the grim true story of a 19th century shipwreck, a quartet of magnetic performers work passionately to deliver the mellifluous folk-rock s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:56pm on November 19, 2024

Tammy Faye, Louis Armstrong, Maybe Happy Ending, Elf Open on Broadway. Theater Bursts onto Bluesky. Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

The quartet of Broadway openings this past week were split between a feel-good nostalgia for two real-life Americans, and a mostly feel-good look at the future " anything but what for many t…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:06am on November 18, 2024
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