5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
In "Smile: The Story of a Face" (Simon and Schuster, 256 pages), Sarah Ruhl recounts how, at the same time that her first play was about to open on Broadway, and she was about to give birth …
Memorial Day, which became an official national holiday in 1971, was created to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation's founding. But it fee…
Lots of exciting news in May about reopening, but how well were you paying attention to the details? Test yourself by answering these 11 questions about the theater news, views and reviews o…
Thirteen years after Lin-Manuel Miranda's first, breakthrough musical, "In The Heights," opened on Broadway, a movie version is coming to theaters and HBO Max on Friday, June 11th. Below are…
What do we now make of the incendiary confrontation between a liberal white middle-aged professor and her radical black student in Eleanor Burgess's ironically titled "The Niceties," now tha…
"I literally exploded," Justine recounts to her roommate Michael, the first line in "Herding Cats." And Lucinda Coxon's play does wind up feeling like an explosion " surely meant to shock an…
In "I Am The Bear," Jerrell L. Henderson, wearing a t-shirt that says "I Am Black History," tells the story of how he was walking to work when he was stopped by a police car because he "fit …
Memorial Day fell on on May 25 in 2020 and I posted: Memorial Day 2020: Remembering Those Who Died of COVID-19. But by the end of the day, a dog walker named Amy Cooper had called the police…
On Bob Dylan's 80th birthday today, the producers of the Dylan musical "Girl From The North Country" announced its reopening on October 13, more than 19 months after it was the last Broadway…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 23 and May 31, 2021 " from Broadway Barks to the National Memorial Concert, and much inbetween, such as Ben Platt a…
Below are the five winners of the 87th annual Drama League Awards, the first (and so far only) major theater award to step up to the moment and honor the forms of theater that have flourishe…
For months I had watched the construction of this strange 2.4 acre public park placed atop new concrete piles like so many oversized golf pegs where the old rotting wood Pier 54 had been " w…
Five years ago, when Florian Zeller's "The Father" debuted on Broadway, Frank Langella portrayed the fifth character I'd seen that year on a New York stage who was struggling with dementia.�…
 The Drama Book Shop will reopen to the public on June 10, 2021 in its new location, under the proprietorship of Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail. The centu…
Ben Platt reprises his Tony-winning role as an anxious, isolated high school student in the film of the 2017 Tony winning best Broadway musical "Dear Evan Hansen," scheduled for release on S…
This half-hour piece, billed as "a video docudrama," manages to work in several of the infamous apologies from the #MeToo era. "The Sprezzaturameron," available for free on the Baryshnikov A…
In a series of video interviews with the leading candidates for mayor of New York City, the New York Times asked each for their favorite Broadway show. (Shaun Donovan said that his high scho…
Watch the video of Miscast below, available through May 20th. For the 21st year in a row (and the second year on YouTube), MCC Theater's fundraiser showcased Broadway stars performing songs …
Play-PerView has done a mitzvah for those of us who missed this savage comedy about bickering college-age cousins when it was first produced Off-Broadway; "Bad Jews" was the first New York p…
Below is a day-by-day selection of theater* that is opening between May 15 and May 21, 2021, including three free (mostly outdoor) theater festivals, Miscast21, two virtual tours of Broad…
This is the third time I've seen Nia Vardalos' moving, funny stage adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's best-selling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns. If I can't embrace all the choices t…
Below are photographs from the exhibition "A Dozen Dreams,", at Brookfield Place's Winter Garden through May 30. "I used to have vivid dreams," the playwright Rehana Lew Mirza says into my h…
The Republicans in the House of Representatives by voice vote ousted Rep. Liz Cheney from her leadership position today because she insists on telling the truth about Donald Trump. "Today, w…
Below is my annual preview guide of Broadway openings chronological by opening date " a list with a twist this year: It's also Broadway reopenings…of shows that have been on the Great Brig…
Hamilton, The Lion King and Wicked have announced reopening dates of September 14, the earliest possible date, with Aladdin on September 28 and Tina the Musical on October 8. Tickets are ava…
