5,771 stories 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…
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. …
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…
"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,…
"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 …
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…
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.…
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…
"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…
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;…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…
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…
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 …
"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…
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…
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…
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…
