5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"Dark and sad will be the hour to this nation when it forgets to pay grateful homage to its greatest benefactors," Frederick Douglass said at the monument to the unknown dead of the Civil Wa…
The "For Dummies" book series began thirty years ago by offering step-by-step practical and unintimidating guides to computer programming geared to intimidated novices. The first title, in 1…
Below are some of the speeches from the winners of the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. held Thursday afternoon at the New York Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. (Don't kno…
You might think of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" at the outset of "Primary Trust,"Â Â when a genial William Jackson Harper as Kenneth describes for us his quaint (fictional) hometown of C…
Deep dives into specific Sondheim shows bookend the theater blog roundup below, which also features an old radio broadcast and a comparison of Huck Finn to Hamlet. Much here attests to theat…
"I'm tired of sports. It's a sickness," Shawn says to Matt in the middle of "King James," Rajiv Joseph's sweetly innocuous comedy about two lifelong fans of the Cleveland Cavaliers basketbal…
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…
The swirl of colorful saris and blast of Vishal Bhardwaj's pulsating Indian music enlivens this stage adaptation of Mira Nair's acclaimed 2001 movie, offering a confusion of characters who h…
Some things are certain: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Succession" are ending (May 25th and May 28th) and the 76th annual Tony Awards is being broadcast (June 11th) What the regular TV vi…
Below are eleven popular posts over the eleven years since I began NewYorkTheater.me, in May 2012. All of these posts, ranked in order of popularity, are still getting traffic. (I have omitt…
"Leopoldstadt" was voted outstanding play and "Some Like It Hot" outstanding musical at the 89th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Annaleig…
The support group that's been meeting weekly at the noisy Buddhist Center in New York City for seven years calls itself the Fearless Warriors, although its half dozen members are anything bu…
 Ralph Lee (July 9, 1935 " May 12, 2023) " theater artist, Broadway veteran, the founder of the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade and the Mettawee River Theatre Company, and above al…
While "Parade" composer Jason Robert Brown played the piano, Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond sang several songs from the musical currently on Broadway inspired by the 2015 lynching in Georgia …
"Some Like It Hot" won outstanding new Broadway musical and four other awards, including outstanding lead performer, at the 72nd Outer Critics Circle Awards. Leopoldstadt won outstanding new…
The Tony Awards will not be broadcast live on June 11 because of the strike by the Writers Guild of America, which on Friday declined to grant a waiver requested by the Tony management commi…
Broadway is not always kind to mothers, but Mother always makes an impression. On Mothers Day, let us recall the season just ended: Jack's Mother in "Into The Woods" urged her doltish son to…
Emilio Sosa designed costumes for an astonishing eight shows in the New York theater season just ended, including five on Broadway, that were striking from head to toe " from the hats in "Th…
Below are the nominations for the 12th annual Off Broadway Alliance Awards. Winners will be announced May 31st, and the awards ceremony will take place June 20th, at Sardi's. Don't know the …
Below is my preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2023-2024 season. The shows are listed chronologically by opening date* (not by first preview), with the title linked to the show's offi…
The opening number of this resurrected musical from the late Elizabeth Swados is so lively and inviting that it reminded me of  "Comedy Tonight" in "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to t…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Bruce Norris's Downstate best play of the 2022-23 season. The award for best foreign play went to Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt.  No…
"English" by Sanaz Toossi has won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were "On Sugarland" and "The Far Country" Check out my New York Theater Awards 2023: Guide and Calendar "English…
The Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the New York Drama Critics Circle Awards will both be announced later today, capping the week's theater award windfall: first the Theatre World Award Winners…
 "Wolf Play" won Outstanding Play and four other awards, and "Titanique" Outstanding Musical at the 38th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway.…
