5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
 Those of us who couldn't get tickets to see the production, and instead bought Wallace Shawn's published play (What We Did Before Our Moth Days, Faber and Faber, 96 pages) are treated t…
Call it "Madame Butterfly" with ADHD.  "Grey Arias," which is running only through tomorrow at the Flea, stars an unlikely duo whose divergent life experiences, talents and idiosyncras…
I was maybe 15 years old when a middle-aged man stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a swinger. I suddenly remembered the encounter while watching the soft porn comedy "The Amazing…
"One of the biggest surprises for me in being on Broadway is that there are a lot of unhappy people there," Tony winner Jonathan Groff writes in a foreword to this book co-written by Lindsay…
Gandhi was famous for walking, both for exercise and for the liberation of India, clocking some 49,000 miles on his protest marches. Aristotle believed that great thinkers are all great walk…
February ended with a bang, and not just overseas. There were some heavy shows Off Broadway. The six I reviewed just this week are full of sickness and sexism, personal betrayals and public …
"Night Side Songs" is in part an original musical that tells the story of the terminal illness of a character named Yasmine Holly (portrayed by Brooke Ishibashi.)Â Â But it's also a "kal…
Bigfoot's mother, Francine Foot, explains how her big, kind, hairy monster came to be: "You have sex with a carnie next to a nuclear power plant, you end up with a giant son." That's the kin…
This elaborate, tuneful puppet musical doesn't just tell the story of the journey of Kim Pham from Vietnamese "hometown girl" riding a water buffalo to young romantic in Saigon to war refuge…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of February? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a doozy of a bonus question. Loading…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including three starry plays on Broadway: A solo turn by Daniel Radcliffe (opening March 12), a British im…
The four power-suited Chinese-American women who work at the same Wall Street bank meet every third Tuesday for lunch at Golden Unicorn in what they call an affinity group. But it doesn't ta…
"Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?" Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger asked in her 12-minute Democratic response to President Trump's 108-minu…
Early on in Jake Brasch's comedy about an alcoholic helped to sobriety by his grandparents, Josh (Noah Galvin), recovering from his latest full-on bender (blacked out, 11 stitches), is comfo…
Near the beginning of Lauren Yee's dark farce set in Russia after the collapse of Communism,  Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat) reunites with his old friend Dmitri (Steven Boyer), reminiscin…
For the first time in a decade, a blizzard canceled all of Broadway. The Broadway League announced the cancelation of all performances Sunday evening "due to anticipated travel impacts from …
It's easy to see how the dynamic physical performer Ethan Slater, Broadway's SpongeBob and Hollywood's Boq, would be drawn to the irresistible true story of the world's most famous mim…
Mae is awkward and messy, and so is the play she is in, a revival that is the second theatrical production at the Cherry Lane Theater under its new owners, the A24 movie studio. Portraye…
TeatroFest 2026, a citywide festival of twenty-four productions by the ten member theaters of the Alliance of Teatros Latinos NY , launches February 27 with a free Spring Preview at the New …
"Ruby & Charlie," one of the three works of puppetry at the fifth annual Puppetopia festival presented at HERE,  uses the music of Ray Charles, played by a live band, to chro…
A day in an abortion clinic; children killed in Gaza; children killed in school shootings in America; the life and death of a war photojournalist; donkeys in the desert.  These are the…
Alfred Nakache, a swimmer of Algerian Jewish descent who competed for France in the Olympics both before and after he was sent to Auschwitz, might seem an unlikely subject for an animated fi…
A France in which kissing gets the death penalty; a Palestinian butcher accused by his Israeli co-workers; a spoof of Jane Austin. These are among the five Live Action Short Films nominated …
February is usually the peak month for SADÂ Â (Seasonal Affective Disorder), but it's still striking that four of the five plays I reviewed this past week involve family trauma. Three do…
In the middle of the Saturday Survivors weekly recovery meeting that is the heart of Jacob Perkins' play, Elizabeth Marvel as Joan introduces herself, announces that she is an alcoholic, and…
