5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
The Bard takes a back seat to the Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in "& Juliet,"Â Â a jukebox musical that is being billed as a sequel to Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," imagini…
Earlier this month, Keith Wann, a performance artist and long-time sign language interpreter for the Deaf on Broadway, filed a lawsuit against Theater Development Fund for rescinding its job…
At the beginning of "Downstate," an unsettling play by Bruce Norris, Andy (Tim Hopper) is confronting the man who sexually abused him thirty years earlier, reading with shaky breath from …
Six albums were nominated for the best musical theater album, all of them of current or recent Broadway shows (unlike last year). The 65th annual Grammy Awards will take place on February 5,…
Theater is fleeting, which is why the new Museum of Broadway feels long overdue. Theater twitter seems to be fleeting too " or fleeing, to be more precise. Playbill's last Tweet: Twitter sen…
Individual Broadway musicals take pride of place at the Museum of Broadway, opening tomorrow, with literal show rooms: elaborately designed rooms dedicated to such shows as "Oklahoma," "West…
Mike Birbiglia is so popular he can joke about cancer and diabetes and still fill up a Broadway theater. Â "The Old Man and the Pool," opening tonight at the Vivian Beaumont, recalls the t…
In honor of Veterans Day, veterans and current active duty service members were given free tickets this week to attend a one-night-only reading just for them of James IJames' 2022 Pulitzer P…
"Kimberly Akimbo" arrives on Broadway with its terrific cast and quirkiness intact. What's best about this musical remains " above all,  the slowly unfolding oddball relationship betwe…
Madeline Sayet begins her enlightening solo show at the Public Theater with an acknowledgement of the original inhabitants of Manhattan,  the Lenape, which is as standard an opening me…
"This campaign has always been about fighting for anybody who's gotten knocked down that ever got back up," John Fetterman said in his victory speech early this morning after he was called t…
Today is Election Day! If you live in NYC, find your polling site here. If you live anywhere in America, you can go to Vote.org. Learn the location of your polling place and what's on you…
"If the British armed forces are not perhaps what they were on the world stage, they're certainly world beaters in ceremony and ritual and pomp. We're still good for theater." " Dominic West…
In her gorgeously written memoir, which was published last year with the same title as the play that is opening tonight at the Signature Theater, Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes wrote that it was…
Inventive stagecraft, watchable stars, a vague, artsy script: In his New York debut, playwright Noah Diaz arguably has a story he wants to tell about caregiving and the psychological effects…
The "world's greatest rock critic" offers some advice to William Miller, a friendless, precocious 15-year-old who has just lucked into an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to accompany …
A sign of the vitality of American theater in the 1960s is how many shows that Al Hirschfeld caricatured at the time are currently on New York stages in revivals: 1776, A Delicate Balance, F…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in November, a month that features six new Broadway shows, four of them musicals, as well as some exciting theater-adjacent events, such as…
Broadway 2023 is shaping up, even as Fall 2022 heats up, with eight Broadway shows having opened in October, six more scheduled to do so in November, and Off Broadway featuring new plays wit…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in October " the shows (eight on Broadway alone!), the controversies (many)? Answer these ten questions to find out Loading…
"Hound Dog," a play with music, evokes Elvis, Joni Mitchell and "Ramy" the Hulu series about an Egyptian-American immigrant family in New Jersey (the last unintentionally) " which provide th…
In 2016, Stephen Sondheim, who was working on a new musical based on two movies by Luis Buñuel,  was listed on an internal memo at the New Yorker Magazine as a possible subject for …
Gabriel Byrne gives four different kinds of curtain calls in the middle of "Walking With Ghosts," his lovely solo show opening tonight at Broadway's Music Box Theater. These are hilarious im…
Ralph Fiennes nails Robert Moses " the gruff, no-nonsense New York voice, the pugnacious face, the planted stance ready for combat; pelvis thrust forward. Commanding, confident to the point …
Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, Joe Morton and Sean Combs have all portrayed Walter Lee Younger on Broadway. Given how admired these performers are,  it may come as a shock that the…
