5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Will a Caesars Palace casino be put above the Minskoff Theater,  home to "The Lion King"? Caesars and the landlord of 1515 Broadway, SL Green, have put in a bid with the New York St…
Theater heals in grim times, even in grim shows, according to several theater bloggers, who are sounding a surprising note of optimism in recent posts amid the current reports of tension bot…
"What Kind of Woman," playwright Abbe Tanenbaum tells us in a program note, was inspired by a cache of letters from women seeking abortion before Roe vs. Wade, which she discovered …
Broadway performers Idina Menzel, Gideon Glick, Andy Mientus, Nancy Olson, directors Jack O'Brien and Sheldon Epps are all new authors " of memoirs, novels, a cookbook, a children's book; no…
Is "Topdog/Underdog" as outdated as the three-card monte that the play revolves around? In Suzan-Lori Parks' twenty-year-old play, two brothers with the loaded names of Lincoln and Booth spe…
Emma Rice's jokey, sprawling musical adaptation of "Wuthering Heights" that opens tonight at St. Ann's Warehouse might befuddle anyone who associates the title with the 1939 movie. Laurence …
Two Broadway cast members provoked voluble reactions among theater lovers this past week,  both of which feel like case studies with surprisingly complex implications. Sara Porkalob, w…
Sara Porkalob, who is making her Broadway debut portraying Edward Rutledge, the pro-slavery representative from South Carolina, in the gender-reversed Broadway revival of "1776," gave an …
For Edward Hopper, theater was a passionate pastime, an inspiration, and also, from first to last, a subject of his paintings " enough of them to fill a gallery and then some in "Edward Hopp…
The first Broadway revival of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"Â is full of stars and ghosts. The ghosts are what make it brilliant. Don't misunderstand. It's thrilling that: -Samuel L. J…
Angela Lansbury received her first Oscar nomination before World War II was won, and today, there are children who know who she is. It's hard to imagine anyone matching the historical sweep …
Angela Lansbury, the English born actress, child star in Hollywood and beloved sleuth of "Murder She Wrote" who conquered Broadway relatively late in life, died today at her home in Los Ange…
Three more shows opened last week, the latest in the revved-up Broadway season, all three with non-traditional casts, two of them familiar Broadway fare thus made unfamiliar (and, the produc…
In honor of Indigenous Peoples' Day, which President Joe Biden first formally recognized as a national holiday in 2021, to be celebrated the second Monday of October (today!) " not coinci…
The "Death of a Salesman" that opens tonight on Broadway begins and ends with the people around Willy Loman literally singing the blues " the music that turned the bitterness and exhaustion …
A day before opening night of the sixth Broadway production of Arthur Miller's 1949 plays seems a good time to resurrect my review of the fifth production which opened on March 15th, 2012 st…
The long weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that is available online for free. Some of it has been around for a while and may remain so; four of the shows below are planning to go…
The original challenge to the creators of "1776" was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a cent…
"We are not criminals…" Kristina was saying "We are refugees," Bohdana added, "seeking asylum." Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukraine who were…
On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of "Cost of Living" " Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabled peopl…
Tom Stoppard's nineteenth play to open on Broadway, and the Fall 2022 season's first, launches a busy and exciting theatrical month in New York " eight shows just on Broadway, including two …
"Leopoldstadt," a play by Tom Stoppard inspired by the death of his own extended family in the Holocaust, begins with a family tree projected onto the scrim of the stage at Broadway's Longac…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in October, a thrilling selection featuring eight Broadway shows (four of them Pulitzer winners, a fifth the nineteenth Broadway play in…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Loading…
Before the curtain rises at BAM's Harvey Theater on this wordless, whimsical and haunting hour-long theater piece cryptically entitled "300 el x 50 el x 30 el,"  a huge screen proje…
