5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
There is a core of irresistibly tuneful songs in "The Who's Tommy" that have drawn in fans for more than half a century, first with the rock band's pioneering 1969 double album, then t…
In honor of World Theater Day, celebrated internationally every March 27th since 1962, here are 10 beautiful theaters from around the world, and 10 great books about New York theater. …
John Patrick Shanley's latest play begins with a tentative connection between two lonely middle-aged people, Fran (Cecily Strong), who brings her latest bag of dirty laundry to the neighborh…
I reviewed seven shows this past week " two on Broadway, two Off-Broadway, two Off-Off Broadway, and one in Kentucky. A mad busy theatergoing week, prelude to an even more insane month, with…
 We're in the parking lot of the New Jerusalem Missionary Baptist Church on a hot Good Friday afternoon in Dallas, Texas. We're also on stage in the Pamela Brown Auditorium of the Actors…
Bathhouse.pptx,  "a mess" of a play about gay bathhouses that is "a symptom of loneliness and longing" (in the words of its playwright Jesús I. Valles), won the 2023 Yale Drama Seri…
Laurence Fishburne is an award-winning actor who's been in the business for more than half a century, debuting on TV at age 10, in the movies at age 12, and in a major motion picture, Â�…
When at the start of "Water for Elephants," Jacob jumps a train during the Depression, he lucks out " and so do we."You didn't jump just any old train, son," a character named Camel tells hi…
Described below are forty-seven shows opening over nineteen days in April. That beats even the Broadway schedule for the month. And tickets are a lot cheaper " no more than $35, and as littl…
There are elements of a smart and campy popular entertainment, comparable to "Little Shop of Horrors," in this latest musical from Michael R. Jackson ( "A Strange Loop," "White Girl in Dange…
Jeremy Strong as a righteous scientist? Michael Imperioli as his pompous, persnickety brother? One might initially question this casting. Strong is best known for his recent role as Kendall …
The Dred Scott decision, widely considered the worst ruling in the history of the United States Supreme Court, inspired "American Rot," which should have been a better play. It certainly has…
New York theater revs up for its final stretch, with 16 of the 38 shows of the Broadway 2023-2024 season opening up over the next six weeks. I'm not even halfway through the 10 "can't mis…
A look at the final stretch of the Broadway 2023-2024 season:: The sixteen Broadway shows opening over the next six weeks, starting tomorrow and ending April 25th, the cut-off date for Tony …
Marlon Brando singing "Luck Be A Lady" in rehearsal with "Guys and Dolls" composer Frank Loesser. Fifteen pairs of Liza Minnelli's false eyelashes. A first edition of "West Side Story" signe…
Four years ago today " the ides of March, 2020 " the COVID-19 pandemic forced the then-mayor of New York City to shut down the smaller In-person theaters that had remained open after t…
They're selling a little box of tissues branded with the logo of "The Notebook: The Musical" at  Broadway'sGerald Schoenfeld Theater, where it's opening tonight " perhaps the produc…
In "The Effect," two researchers are conducting clinical trials of a new antidepressant, but their experiment stumbles and crashes after two volunteers undergoing the drug tests fall for one…
During the Golden Age of Broadway, theater photographer Leo Friedman used his specialized still camera to capture image after image of show after show. The action on stage was rarely still, …
As he did more successfully with "Oslo" and "Blood and Gifts," playwright J. T. Rogers dramatizes a complicated moment in history with sophistication, humor, some clarity, even some suspense…
Broadway at the Oscars 2024, clockwise from top left: New Academy Award winners and Broadway veterans Da'Vine Joy Randolph (who was nominated for  a Tony  in 2012 for Ghost the M…
Best Picture Oppenheimer Best Director Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer Best Actor Cillian Murphy, Oppenheimer Best Actress Emma Stone, Poor Things Best Supporting Actor Robert Downey Jr., Opp…
"I"m worried about the future of our children, and this is why I invite you into this strange, empty kitchen, because Republicans want me to appeal to women voters. And women love kitchens."…
"No carnival without cruelty," a man dressed much like the horror movie character Freddy Krueger screams desperately in Spanish, trapped in a glass cube crowded with others who are grotesque…
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, here are the women playwrights who have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, an annual award given for "a distinguished play by …
