5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Shows currently on Broadway are full of love and kisses " some sweet, sexy, some with a decidedly dark edge " as these scenes and shots attest: From & Juliet: Francois: I just proposed t…
It's not exactly inaccurate to describe "Between Two Knees" as a play about American Indian history told through the experience of one indigenous family over several generations, from the ma…
Off Broadway Week begins today All five shows that I reviewed this past week (see below) could be described as avant-garde theater.  But what does avant-garde even mean in 2024? It's a…
A commercial for the forthcoming movie musical "Wicked" during the Super Bowl came closest to Broadway fare, but it isn't a complete stretch to offer a few other moments that were of interes…
Tickets are on sale for Off-Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for 31 different Off-Broadway productions, for performances from February 12 to March 3. Click h…
After Russia invades her native Ukraine, Olga Ivanovna, 82 years old,  calls Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to strategize; admonishes both Chancellor Olaf Scholz of German…
In this experiment in storytelling, Mona Pirnot spends just over an hour with her back to the audience, intermittently picking up an acoustic guitar and singing a song (she does this f…
Much has changed " and nowhere near enough has changed " since I first saw "Russian Troll Farm: A Workplace Comedy," a play by Sarah Gancher based on a frightening true story: How the employ…
"Bark of Millions" is a concert of fifty-five original songs, each inspired by a queer figure in history, put together by the same team that produced the once-in-a-generation "A 24-Decade Hi…
When they started making theater together fifty years ago " at the same time that they started making love together, and making a life together " they'd already been eating cheap food, drink…
"Some Like It Hot" won best musical theater album at the 66th Grammy Awards, among the 85 trophies handed out online in the afternoon, before the nine major Grammy categories were spotlig…
 Some Like It Hot is the winner of the Grammy for Musical Theater Album. "Thank you Broadway first of all. Come to New York City, come to regional theater. Support live theater," the albu…
Ossie Davis, the author and star of "Purlie Victorious" in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play's revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDonald, …
There seemed more awards than usual this past month, not all of them theater awards, but all with a theater connection or two. Answer these ten questions to see how well you were paying atte…
Jonah is sweet, awkward, inquisitive, respectful and clearly smitten " the sort of boy you might want for a first love if you were Ana, a scholarship student at a boarding school. After he w…
Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February, including a single Broadway show " a revival of a Tony and Pulitzer winner by John Patrick Shanley opening on Leap Year Day. But a new pl…
Chita Rivera died today at the age of 91. Born Dolores Conchita Figueroa del Rivero, she originated roles in "West Side Story," "Bye Bye Birdie," "Chicago" and "Kiss of the Spider Wom…
What first comes to mind when you think of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" To Philip Gefter, it is not the game-changing play by Edward Albee, but Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton…
The biggest "award" this past week was for $83.3 million, but, for the end of January, there was a surprising amount of news about entertainment-related awards " including winners (of Obies,…
Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara return to Broadway for the first time together since 2002 to portray a couple who fall in love with alcohol as much as with one another in this musi…
The 67th annual Obie Awards, honoring achievement Off and Off Off Broadway, were announced tonight. The 23 winners are listed below, some of them linked to my reviews BEST NEW AMERICAN PLAY …
The first disturbing story that we're told in this hour-long collage of dancing and diatribes, horror and love, concerns a man named Tantalus, who killed his son and chopped him up with the …
Sutton Foster, trying her hand at goofy physical comedy and affecting a rapid-fire comic patter reminiscent of early Barbra Streisand, is an undeniable draw in the Encores! series revival of…
Nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards were announced yesterday, and theater lovers cheered the latest Broadway connections. The Oscars have always had Broadway connections. Test you…
The complete list of nominations for the 96th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and televised LIVE on ABC. Wa…
