5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 77th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best " plus a poll question about which new category (if any) the Ton…
Below is a manageable list of 13 theater books " recently published or soon to be" that look to be good summer reads: six memoirs or biographies, four books of history, recent scripts of thr…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 73rd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don…
The state of theater blogging is arguably a bit like the state of theater in general. It's more persistent, and resilient, than the pessimists might proclaim.   Chris Peterson this …
Below are the 12 most popular new posts in each of the 12 years since I launched NewYorkTheater.me, on May 23, 2012, which amounts to a kind of time capsule of theatergoers' evolving enthusi…
"The Fires" brings us simultaneously into the lives and loves of three Black gay men occupying the same railroad apartment in South Brooklyn, but decades apart "Â Â Jay (Phillip James Br…
Below is the complete list of 2023 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, presented tonight at the NYU Skirball Center, Check out nominatio…
I gained a whole new understanding of "The Three Little Piggies" at the end of Dave Malloy's latest sing-through musical theater piece, which has a lively score and a gifted cast, but largel…
While the awards for the season just ended are still rolling out, the 2024-2025 season on Broadway and beyond is already full of news of new shows and new stars, Broadway debuts and Broadway…
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2024-2025 season. Robert Downey Jr, George Clooney, and Cole Escola are set to make their Broadway debuts, in new plays by Ayad Akhtar, …
"Do you want to play a game? " Lucy (Madison Ferris) asks Alfonso as soon as she spots him, without even so much as a hello. "It'll be fun, trust me." "A stranger who says I should tru…
Click here for the list of 2024 Drama League Award nominees, from which the awardees were chosen. Don't know the difference between the awards of the Drama League and the Drama Desk and the …
"Stereophonic," just released an original cast recording with a 14-song tracklist (listen below), which is not unusual for a Broadway musical, but not common for a Broadway play, which is ho…
Leslie Odom in the Tony-nominated Broadway musical "Purlie Victorious," Sutton Foster in "Anything Goes," and a London concert by Audra McDonald are among the acclaimed theatrical performanc…
Near the start of "An American Soldier," Danny Chen (Brian Vu) stumbles distraught through the crowd gathered in a military courtroom. For much of my life, I felt invisibleDo you know wh…
 Below are the dozen honorees bestowed with Theatre World Awards for outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway debut performances during the 2023-2024 theatrical season, as well as three…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named David Adjmi's Stereophonic best play of the 2023-24 season. The award for best musical went to Dead Outlaw, music and lyrics by David Ya…
 A slew of honors for Broadway mainstays were announced this past week, as well as the Outer Critics Circle Awards this morning (see News below.) Meanwhile, new theater is still happe…
"Stereophonic"won outstanding new Broadway play and three other awards, "Suffs" outstanding new Broadway musical and two other awards at the 73rd annual Outer Critics Circle Awards. Dead Out…
Mothers took center stage in the Broadway season just ended, getting star treatment for characters who range from vile to virtuous. Today, on Mothers Day, Jessica Lange in the title role of …
At first, "Shimmer and Herringbone," the third and final absurdist play in the avant-garde theater company Talking Band's fiftieth anniversary season, promises to be a series of random riffs…
 "Scarlett Dreams" is a play that imagines a near-future dominated by Artificial Intelligence, so I asked ChatGPT how it would review the play. It instantly produced a 303-word review, wh…
"Exagoge," inspired by the oldest known Jewish play, is a wildly ambitious, complicated but largely accessible new work of immersive theater: a play, opera, and Passover seder all in one " a…
Below are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. The awards will be announced May 30th, and the ceremony will take place June 18th, at Sardi's. The Alliance has al…
The children's book author Dare Wright is billed as the inspiration for this unusual theater piece, although her name is never mentioned on stage. Actually, nothing is mentioned on stage. "S…
