5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
No the virtual reunion reading of Three Days of Rain doesn't star Julia Roberts or Bradley Cooper " but that is a good thing. The two made their Broadway debuts in a 2006 productio…
Below are the winners of the ACTAs " American Connected Theater Awards* " for theatrical storytelling created and presented online during the year between March 2020 and March 2021. These ar…
"Lifeboat Drill," an obscure 1979 play by Tennessee Williams, and "For Whom The Southern Belle Tolls," Christopher Durang's better-known 1994 parody of Williams' "The Glass Menagerie," were …
From Stars in the House to Jake Gyllenhaal singing an original mini-musical, from Ratatouille the TikTok Musical to Sondheim's 90th birthday concert, as well as countless Zoom readings and r…
In the year since the threat from COVID-19 shuttered first Broadway (on March 12, 2020) and then the remaining physical stages in New York (on March 15), there has been much suffering " l…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 8 and March 14, which coincides with the anniversary of the shutdown of physical stages in New York. It's am…
"To The Moon" begins with scenes of Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden  in "The Honeymooners" showing his fist to Audrey Meadows as his wife Alice ("To the moon, Alice"), and ends some tw…
"Jericho," Jack Canfora's 2011 play about two characters directly affected by 9/11, should have repelled me. It uses sitcom rhythms, Jewish stereotypes, the hoary devices of a sympathetic gh…
"We are in an irregular time," one college administrator says to another, an excuse for why the school bureaucracy has so failed to meet the challenge of the pandemic period that its losses …
An actor on the autism spectrum writes about how theater is "a surprisingly welcoming place," and you can see how some theater bloggers over the past month have been reacting to a year of is…
The Music Box Theater on Broadway is among the theaters scheduled to reopen on April 2nd for a series of NY PopsUp events, that will serve as a "pilot program" for safety protocols "that wil…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news and reviews in February? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading… Never miss another answer: Enter your email address to subs…
Voting for the Tony Awards starts today, and in less than four months New Yorkers will start voting for mayor. The candidates have been offering their plans on how to bring back Broadway, wh…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between March 1 and March 7, including the launching of galas and festivals celebrating Women's History Month, science, da…
Among his many talents, Mike Nichols had a talent for celebrity, which meant in part a talent for friendship, as we learn early and often in Mike Nichols: A Life (Penguin Press. 688 pages.).…
"Theatre: A Love Story" by Caridad Svich, which opened tonight and runs through March 27, begins with a vertiginous video tour through the streets of the theater district in Cincinnati, unti…
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress," André De Shields thunders as Frederick Douglass, the great 19th century Black orator, writer, social reformer and statesman, in the 45 minut…
After watching last night's streaming of six short plays by the students of Labyrinth's summer workshop as part of the theater company's Barn Series 2021, I was struck by what these shows sa…
The first reaction to "Love Life" (before even watching the Encores! 15-minute video about it with Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell below) has to be: Where have you been all my life? A…
In this virtual production of Theresa Rebeck's 2003 one-woman comedy, Andréa Burns portrays Haley Walker, a Texas divorcee who moved with her daughter and her 600 pairs of shoes to Manhatta…
There was a powerful if unintended lesson over the weekend with the start of the state-sponsored NY Pops Up performances at the cavernous and near-empty Jacob Javits Convention-turned-vaccin…
Below are the day-by-day listings of online theater that is opening between February 22 and February 28. In this final week of the month, Labyrinth Theater is offering an original new play e…
I have spent the past week watching one online theater piece after another that, for remarkably varied reasons, left me debating whether I should commit to saying anything publicly about the…
At the start of MTC's new virtual reading of Richard Wesley's short play "The Past is the Past," available for free through February 28th, a middle aged man named Earl (Ron Cephas Jones, Emm…
Benjamin Scheuer ("The Lion") and the Birmingham Royal Ballet collaborate on this five minute video, "dedicated to the ambition to keep ballet and performance alive." It illustrates Scheuer'…
