5,839 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
"Until The Flood" is the third play I've seen inspired by the killing by police officer Darren Wilson of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri on August 9, 2014, each of them atten…
"Out of all this madness, and out of all this pain, will grow some opportunity for new voices, new creators." So says Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatrical Productions and curren…
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater since 2005, spoke about the ways theater (and the Public itself) has been shaken up during this time of crisis, in a conversation wit…
Watch Bedlam's The Machine Stops below for a limited time. Directed and adapted by David Keohane from a story by E.M. Forster, it stars Zuzanna Szadkowski, Awesta Zarif, and Miguel Long. …
The Theatre on Film and Tape Archive " TOFT to those in the know " has turned 50. The archive, launched in November 1970 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Cen…
The most timely play you can watch right now is the replay of "Conscience," the story of how Margaret Chase Smith became the lone Republican to speak out against Senator Joseph McCarthy. In …
Watch "Long" below through November 14, written by Charlie Oh, directed by Dustin Wills, starring Daniel Liu, Christian DeMarais, Tara Summers, Raymond Lee. Stage Directions " Alexander Shaw…
Armie Hammer turns his fingers into an imaginary gun, puts it in his mouth, and pulls the trigger (his thumb.) He is portraying US Army Sergeant Joe Garnier, who is on leave with his wife…
What will the election of Joseph R. Biden Jr as President of the United States do for the theater, and the other arts? "The future of who we are lies in the arts," Biden told Lin-Manuel Mira…
What is the soul of America? It's a question that engaged the composer George Gershwin nearly a century before it became a part of the 2020 American election, as we learn in this fascinating…
"It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again.To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy…
"And when our very democracy was on the ballot in this election, with the very soul of America at stake, and the world watching, you ushered in a new day for America." "…while I may be the…
"Joseph R. Biden Jr. has been elected president of the United States, defeating President Trump by promising to restore civility and stability to American politics and vowing more aggressive…
Aunt Dan is hardly the typical Trump supporter. The character portrayed by Kristen Johnston in the New Group's online reunion reading of Wallace Shawn's play was the youngest American ev…
Looking for a way to stop obsessing over the 2020 electoral count, I landed on watching this 1925 play about a fictional election. Â I previously had resisted this Mint Theater recording b…
As Election Day ended without an official declared winner for President, or word of which party will control the Senate, Broadway Tweeters urged patience and calm. "It's gonna take awhile to…
Phillipa Soo and Steven Pasquale sing a song of their own composition "The Vote Song," Leslie Odom Jr. raps "Wait for It" " wait for the results, which will not be available on Election nigh…
The nine days of early voting ended Sunday, with more than 1.1 million New Yorkers casting ballots. That is 41 percent of New York City's total voter turnout in the 2016 Presidential electio…
 Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in November 2020. Despite the return of some familiar plays with the original casts, there is little that's comforting about this…
Wallace Shawn wouldn't get into the elevator with me a while back. The elevator was large and empty (except for me) " the one at Lincoln Center Theater that brings theatergoers up to the Cla…
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of October? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…
Con Melody is a drunk saddled with a run-down tavern outside Boston, who fancies himself a European war hero born in an Irish castle. He's a vain, moody character living an illusion in "A To…
Eighty-four years after theaters in 17 states across America simultaneously opened "It Can't Happen Here," a dramatization of Sinclair Lewis' cautionary tale imagining the rise of fascism in…
Reading these monologues from the early days of COVID-19, many of which I had watched online, made me think of the way Trump impersonator Adam Baldwin on Saturday Night Live recently spoofed…
Below is the video and transcript of the speech by former President Barack Obama in Orlando, Florida on October 27, 2020, in which he lets loose on President Donald Trump. "…you've got a p…
