5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Watch Oscar and Walt, a play by Donald Steven Olson about the real-life meeting between Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman, starring Judy Kuhn, John Rubinstein and Sam Underwood. "I come as a poet…
"Mank," the new film on Netflix by David Fincher focuses on Herman J. Mankiewicz, drunk and laid up after a car accident, writing the screenplay for "Citizen Kane," one of the most lauded…
Below is the schedule of the new plays being presented with impressively starry casts each evening at 8 pm through Christmas, as part of the first ever New Works Virtual Festival, which will…
Watch "Old Friends New Works" below until December 7 "You broke my heart. You let me down. You cut my teeth out…You pulverized my sense of self…And I recovered," Edie Falco says in Simon…
The credits at the end of this A Christmas Carol list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays. He's the narrator, as well as Ebenezer Scrooge, Scrooge's clerk Bob Cr…
The credits at the end of this "A Christmas Carol" list a cast of 51 characters " 50 of them portrayed by Jefferson Mays…even The Dying Fire and An Indignant Potato…..But the main achiev…
Meryl Streep made me laugh out loud, repeatedly, during "It's Not About Me," which she sings in her role as the self-absorbed Broadway diva Dee Dee Allen in "The Prom," Ryan Murphy's star-st…
This ninth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation) is unlike any that have gone before it for New York area theaters, theater com…
Below is a selection of New York theater openings* in December, organized chronologically by opening date. Starry casts feature in several revivals, such as Phylicia Rashad in  "Night of …
"I'm a theater animal. I'm not really a cinema animal, " Andrew Lloyd Webber said in an interview with CNBC on Friday, "and I don't believe you can really, really ever, at the moment, have a…
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of November? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
My ninth annual holiday gift guide is, like theater itself, greatly altered from the previous years. Below are recommendations for albums , play scripts, librettos and new and cherished b…
In a year when theater has been shut down, and opened up; when it's been re-defined , and in effect defunded; when it's been a force for unity, and a cause for division " in such a year as 2…
The Christmas Carols have begun " new innovative versions " and there's plenty of other theater on which to spend your time this weekend. Some of it even has nothing to do with the holiday s…
Watch the 94th annual Macys Thanksgiving Day Parada, which is different from the 93 preceding it: It's an event produced exclusively for at home viewing, without the millions of spectators t…
Below are the transcript and video of President-elect Joe Biden's Thanksgiving address, in which he says COVID-19 "has brought us pain and loss and frustration, and it has cost so many li…
Thoughts of Thanksgiving loom large among theater bloggers this month at a time when both Thanksgiving and theater have… changed. On Stage lists the scientific benefits of gratitude; a pla…
The cast recordings for Amelie " A New Musical , American Utopia on Broadway, Jagged Little Pill, Little Shop of Horrors , The Prince of Egypt  and Soft Power were nominated for best musi…
"Writing for musical theater was not something I ever wanted to do; it was the family business," Adam Guettel, son of Mary Rodgers and grandson of Richard Rodgers, is quoted as saying in "Ro…
Theaters have been bursting with announcements of future shows during a week that would normally be one of the busiest of the theater season. Â Thanksgiving on Thursday may be reduced this…
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between The World and Me," Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
About 15 minutes into the HBO film adaptation of "Between the World and Me", Ta-Nehisi Coates best-selling 2015 book framed as a letter to his son about what it means to be Black in America,…
"The Burdens" is a dark comedy starring William Jackson Harper and Ali Ahn as a brother and a sister who plot to kill their grandfather. But it's also a play on words, and that makes i…
Neil LaBute's surprisingly faithful adaptation of Chekhov's 1899 play nevertheless feels forged in the present day " even in this very moment: The proceedings remind me of a Thanksgiving din…
"Existentialism; that word puts us to sleep," master clown Bill Irwin was saying on my computer screen, "even though true questions of existence…keep us awake at night." The word "Existent…
