5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Watch the video below of the cast of the Broadway musical Harmony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah with a special post-matinee menorah lighting outside the Barrymore…
The ten videos below were the most viewed in 2023 of those that I've posted either on this blog or on my YouTube channel, @NewYorkTheaterme, arranged in order of popularity. I'm not sure …
Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording released in 2023* from among the 12 in the poll below, ordered alphabetically. If I've somehow missed your favorite, fill in the "Other" slot. (I…
"Manahatta" dramatizes two pivotal, and shameful, moments in New York City history, occurring four centuries apart " the Dutch West India Company's "purchase" of the island of Manhattan from…
There is a stunning kind of poetry in the puppetry employed to dramatize Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's forty-year-old novel about a simple man who makes an epic journey through the physicall…
Jewish theater artists in the three alternate magazine covers: Clockwise from left: Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick, Sam Gold, Amy Herzog, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer and…
While there are always new shows in December (see December 2023 New York Theater Openings), the heart of theater during the month is in many ways the annual holiday shows " plays, ballets, o…
Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Lange, Kelli O'Hara with Brian d'Arcy James, Tyne Daly with Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong with Michael Imperioli are all performing in shows on Broadway " and Mich…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features two Broadway openings " a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins starring Sarah Paulson (see December 18th), and…
A thick smoke billows over the stage as a character sings Spanish operatically in one of the last scenes of "Spain," a play by Jen Silverman that purports to tell the cloak-and-dagger backst…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in November? Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
Alexis Soloski, a theater critic for the New York Times, has written a novel about a theater critic, but if that's the lure, beware:Â "Here in the Dark" (Flatiron Books, 256 pages) is mor…
On this twelfth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to theater in New York. Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters a…
Cyber Monday ticket deals in theater still exist in 2023 (see below) although they are harder to find now, in part because of Elon Musk's relentless degradation of the social media platform …
Theater may be an ephemeral experience on stage, but the ways we have presented and attempted to preserve American musicals everywhere else " the printed page, photographs, the cast album, f…
My yearly list of New York stage shows for which I'm most grateful, which I started posting every Thanksgiving more than a decade ago, returns more or less to normal this year, as t…
My twelfth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about th…
Below are videos from the Broadway casts who performed at the 2023 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade: "& Juliet, "Spamalot," "Shucked" "How To Dance in Ohio," and rehearsal video from "Back…
Long before Liza Minnelli and Joel Gray sang "The Money Song" in the musical "Cabaret," set in a cabaret in Nazi Germany, a performer sang a similarly satirical song about money in a real ca…
Graciela Daniele, a Broadway luminary for six decades, directs this lovely and peculiar musical written by her good friend Michael John LaChiusa, who uses Daniele's life as the inspiration f…
Of the eight shows I reviewed this past week, I probably reacted to two of them differently than I would have without the rise in antisemitism over the last six weeks.About the Broadway revi…
Below is the Broadway schedule for Thanksgiving Week 2023, which differs from the usual week's schedule: Only two shows of the 26 currently playing have performances on Thanksgiving Day (Thu…
"Hell's Kitchen," opening tonight at the Public Theater, is not a musical biography of Alicia Keys, nor, despite the title, is it about the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood where she grew up. It'…
About halfway through Lameece Issaq's solo show, a younger man named Gabe dressed as an angel, in a wig and women's makeup, arrives at the home of the unnamed woman at the center of the stor…
For only the third time in Broadway history, you can see a play this weekend live as it's being performed on stage even if you live thousands of miles away. "Jaja's African Hair Braiding,…
