5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Below is a list of theater books " recently published, soon-to-be published, or newly relevant " in four categories: Scripts and Play AnthologiesBiographies and MemoirsTheater History, Criti…
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings in the 2022-2023 season, which features starry revivals of some of America's most acclaimed plays and musicals, new adaptations of belov…
The Broadway League will no longer require Broadway theatergoers to wear masks starting this Friday " not the most shocking decision announced last week, but like the Supreme Court rul…
Lot bristles at the label "special needs."Â Â He is a recluse and a self-trained artist who composed a song called "Weird" and collects trash to turn into sculpture. Yes, he says, he is …
The theater award season continues with nominations announced today by Broadway Black for its second Antonyo Awards, intended to honor extraordinary achievements in the Black theater communi…
Myles Frost of "MJ The Musical" AND Jared Grimes of "Funny Girl" both won the Chita Rivera Awards for outstanding male dancer in a Broadway show, one of two ties in the annual award given to…
The words "weird" or "weirdo" appear some two dozen times in "Corsicana," a play by Will Arbery which opens on Wednesday, and which co-stars Dierdre O'Connell, who last week (coincidentally …
"God's Fool," the 70-minute theater piece about St. Francis of Assisi conceived and directed by Martha Clarke that's at LaMaMa through July 2, would probably be best appreciated by those who…
"Lessons in Survival 1971,"Â running at the Vineyard Theater through June 30, is based on then-28-year-old poet Nikki Giovanni's interview-turned-conversation with the famous writer James …
On the 100th anniversary of the publication of James Joyce's monumental modernist novel "Ulysses," Symphony Space gave over its annual Bloomsday celebration to a new theater piece, also call…
The moments in "The Orchard" that suggest the current Russian invasion of Ukraine would surely get the most attention in a more conventionally focused adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard":Â …
In the prologue of "Circle Jerk" " a funny, campy, discombobulating hybrid theater piece that's a spoof of both gay and digital culture (and also an example of each) "Â the Troll, in a bri…
There were delightful surprises and predictable disappointments during the 75th Tony Awards, honoring the first full season since the COVID-19 pandemic shut down theaters in March 2020…
Below the winners of the 75th annual Tony Awards (Here's a guide to the full 2021-2022 Broadway season, including those not nominated, and those that reopened.)(Here is the list of the nomin…
Years before the end of her long illustrious life, Lena Horne, singer, actor, dancer,  elegant beauty, fierce civil rights activist, pioneering movie star " the first Black performer t…
In this most trying of seasons, the theater community has been attempting to redefine what Broadway means, and that includes producing work that surely would not have made it to Broadway bef…
(Full list of nominees here) (Don't know the difference between the Drama Desk and the Drama League and the Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle awards? Check out my New York…
A dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Harvey Fierstein, and 21 members of the ensemble of The Music Man, were honored at the 76th annual Theatre World Awards " the firs…
The 75th Annual Tony Awards will be presented next Sunday at Radio City Music Hall and live on your TV or (more likely) computer, celebrating the strangest of Broadway seasons, which officia…
Below are two short videos from the two new Broadway musicals that were most nominated for 2022 Tony Awards: "A Strange Loop" by Michael R. Jackson received 11 Tony nominations, "MJ the Musi…
When Alexandria Wailes was growing up, people would stop her mother, incredulous, and ask her: " Your deaf daughter is dancing!? How is that possible?" She reminded Wailes of this over br…
In Mansa Ra's new play, three generations of Black gay men live under the same roof "Â Â grandfather, father and son. If it's hardly unusual of late to see Black queer male characters on…
Below is a selection of theater opening in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring several festivals, mostly outdoors and mostly free, as well as an usual number of hybrid …
While we await the remaining theater awards to top off the triumphant and traumatic 2020/21-2022 season, the next Broadway season is starting to take shape. The latest announcement: The New …
Memorial Day became an official national holiday in 1971 to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation's founding. But it feels appropriate t…
