5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards, and some of the other theater awards announced in May. Loading…
'Fat Ham," this year's Pulitzer Prize winning play, which opened tonight at the Public Theater,  is inspired by "Hamlet," but it parts ways with the Bard, and not just because of all t…
An 18-year-old yesterday shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a mass shooting that occurred just ten days after another 18-year-o…
Harmony was designated new new musical and Sanctuary City best new play in the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. (Check out my New York Theater Awards 2022 Guide and Calendar) BEST NEW MUS…
Theater awards season is heating up, with four of the major annual theater awards announcing their winners or nominations this past week; favorite shows are coming into focus. I won't call t…
There is no question which side playwright Margaret Vandenburg favors in her play "Roe v. Wade 2.0,"Â which is inspired by the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jackson W…
The story that seems to be struggling to emerge from "The Karpovsky Variations" concerns Julia Karpovsky, an American Jew who spent her childhood abroad and is trying to connect with her fam…
"The Lehman Trilogy" was voted outstanding play and "A Strange Loop" outstanding musical at the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Sutton F…
"When I was a kid in the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10," says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was a while ago; he's 88. But he is also a Broadway producer and general manager with ni…
Sanaz Toossi, California-born daughter of immigrants from Iran, has racked up awards for her two New York debut plays this season, "English" and "Wish You Were Here."* Both are set in Iran, …
A century and a half after the first American musical, the art form "is growing up, and it is time for us to address the growing pains," historian Margaret Hall said at her TEDx Broadway tal…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
"Six"won outstanding Broadway musical, "Lehman Trilogy" outstanding Broadway play, "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway musical, and "Prayer for the French Republic" Off-Broadway play at the 71st …
Having taken the trip to Gowanus to see "Will You Come With Me?," a play billed as exploring "the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising," I had dinner at a local vegan rest…
Six and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off…
In What happened last week at "Girl from the North Country" and "for colored girls…" might not be miraculous, precisely, but they're the kind of stories in the face of adversity that peopl…
There is an early number in "Suffs" that was as exciting to me in its way as any gathering-in of Superheroes from the Marvel or DC universe. I guess DC is more apt, since the song is about t…
The first-ever Books on Broadway series, featuring conversations with authors and theater artists, will be part of the twentieth anniversary of the Bryant Park Reading Room every Tu…
If all goes as planned, Gregg Mozgala will be making his Broadway debut in the Fall,  three decades after the theater first "made me feel like a full human being," as he explains in th…
The New York Drama Critics' Circle has named Samuel D. Hunter's "A Case for the Existence of God" best play of the 2021-22 season, and David Lindsay-Abaire's and Jeanine Tesori's "Kimb…
Make your pick in the survey below for 12 of the 26 categories in the 75th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12th at Radio Music Hall …
There seems at first a large gap between the cosmic title of this play and the mundane situation it dramatizes: AÂ factory worker named Ryan (Will Brill) is meeting with a mortgage broker …
The trickiest of theater seasons  has led to an unusual " and instructive " awards season. With both the Tony nominations and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama announced on the same day (has…
At the very beginning of Alison Leiby's joke-filled solo show, which I saw a few days after the leak of the draft of a Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade, she told us that "Oh God…
"Fat Ham," James IJames modern take on "Hamlet," has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama. Finalists were "Selling Kabul" by Sylvia Khoury, and "Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Owner" (number 4 in …
