5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
There's been lots of political drama off-stage over the past month. Oddly, much of it can be connected to what's been happening in New York theater. Â Answer these nine questions, plus a b…
"Six" Queen Didi Romero served as the host for the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of the year, which featured a lot of hugs " see first video below
Below is a selection of theater opening* in New York in August, including one show on Broadway: "Once Upon A Mattress," starring Sutton Foster, which originated as an Encores! concert …
"Loss is loss," Thom says to the five other members of the weekly grief support group. "Twenty years ago, our dog died. It took me fifteen years to even entertain the thought of getting anot…
"Job" is the second 80-minute play this month that has powered onto Broadway after sold-out runs downtown. (The other is"Oh, Mary!" .) That this two-character play about a therapy session wr…
Luigi Pirandello, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright who wrote "Six Characters in Search of an Author," was for a time a member of the National Fascist Party and a follower of Benito…
"I look at the world for what I hope it's going to be, a wonderful world " especially with what's happened this week," That was James Monroe Iglehart at this weekend's BroadwayCon First Look…
In "Sing Sing," a movie that has opened in New York cinemas to universal critical acclaim and goes nationwide next week, Colman Domingo portrays an inmate at Sing Sing named John "Divine G" …
Below are videos of the four shows that were presented at the "First Look" concert at the ninth annual BroadwayCon:Â Â Â "Suffs," "The Outsiders,"Â Â "A Wonderful World: The Louis …
Watch the current casts of three long-running musicals " Chicago (on Broadway since 1996), The Book of Mormon (2011), Moulin Rouge (2019) " perform favorites at the Broadway in Bryant Park l…
Watch the video of the two songs that cast members from "Suffs" sang at the Broadway in Bryant Park noontime concert. Both of which are inspired by some fascinating real-life history in the …
It was "Macbeth" that drew Judi Dench to the theater, after she overheard her older brother in a school production  recite the line from the play: "What bloody man is that?" and she…
Choose the five Broadway shows that you are most looking forward to, among the 15 that are opening  on Broadway in September, October, November and December 2024. The shows are listed …
The startling political developments of late are being viewed through a theatrical lens, repeatedly.  A surprising number of professional commentators have invoked Shakespeare, someti…
There is a moment in Ryan Spahn's backstage play that leaves the characters screaming and the audience gasping, but also laughing at how shocking it is, fulfilling anybody's expectations of …
Joseph Biden Jr. announced on social media that he is withdrawing from the race for the Presidency. "It has been the greatest honor of my life to serve as your President. And while it has be…
In the summer of 1932, some 17,000 veterans and their families descended on Washington D.C. to demand the pay that Congress had promised them years earlier as a bonus for their service durin…
MarÃa Irene Fornés was a thirty-year-old aspiring New York painter visiting relatives in her native Cuba with her then-lover Susan Sontag, when she stumbled upon a cache of old letters. …
The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century, as compiled by the New York Times, includes no plays, nor any non-fiction books about the theater. I might have featured at least two of the dozen gre…
Broadway shows have lower attendance than they did before the pandemic, and make less money, but "we are no longer in recovery," Broadway producer Ken Davenport says. "This is the new normal…
Summer for theater folk is usually a time to savor the past season, as illustrator Ray Kampf did in his clever rendition of "Stereophonic" as an Archie comic book. (The play didn't win th…
"Oh, Mary," which opened on Broadway this past week, is meant to be funny and deliberately tasteless; one scene in it, reimagining the first American presidential assassination, turns out to…
In "Ain't Done Bad," a gay boy who feels like a misfit in his hometown leaves to find love in the big city. Although there are 17 songs over the ninety minutes of the show, it could not b…
Below are video snippets of the performances by the casts of five Broadway shows " The Who's Tommy, Water for Elephants, The Wiz, Back to the Future, and Hell's Kitchen " in the first Broadw…
There was a thrilling dance number in  last year's Kander, Ebb and Miranda musical "New York, New York," in which iron workers dance in mid-air on a beam of a skyscraper under construc…
