5,836 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"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…
"Here There Are Blueberries" turns the real-life discovery of an ordinary-looking photo album into a riveting detective story, with the characters gathering clues to unravel a series of myst…
Eboni Booth's "Primary Trust" has won the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Moisés Kaufman & Amanda Gronich
's "Here There Are Blueberries" and Shayok Misha Chowdhury's "Public Obscen…
Nominations for the Tony Awards and for the Drama Desk Awards were among the theater awards announced last week; winners of the Lucille Lortel Awards were announced and feted last night; win…
 Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' "The Comeuppance" won Outstanding Play and nicHi douglas' "(pray)" won Outstanding Musical, Director and Ensemble at the 39th Annual Lucille Lortel Aw…
"Grenfell" is documentary theater about an infamous 2017 fire in a 24-story public housing project in London called Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. Subtitled "In the words of sur…
Theater in Chinatown used to mean gangland shoot-outs " both on the screen and in the balcony of the neighborhood's many movie theaters, which had names like Sun Sing and Pagoda, and were ha…
Watch one- or two-minute videos from each of the five musicals nominated for the 2024 Tony Award for Best Musical: "Hell's Kitchen," "Illinoise," "The Outsiders," "Suffs" and "Water for Elep…
Eight Special Tony Awards and Honors have been announced, including for pioneers in projection design, hair and wig design, and sound design, as well as for writer and director Alex Edelman.…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in May, including new musicals from Laura Benanti and Dave Malloy as well as a new opera from David Henry Hwang, all Off-Broadway. Nothing is schedule…
Eleven* of the 39 shows that opened on Broadway in the 2023-2024 season received no Tony nominations. This doesn't necessarily mean they were cheated; the Tony nominators had to make choices…
