5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Yul Brynner starred on Broadway as Odysseus in "Home Sweet Homer," a musical that opened and closed on the same night. He had better luck in his 1941 Broadway debut at the age of 21, a r…
The long weekend offers concerts by theater stars (including several in-person), a festival, Â and online theater that's both opening and soon to end, as well as more long-lasting videos t…
Composers: Their Lives and Works (DK, 320 pages)Â is a richly illustrated coffee table book in which eight authors profile some 160 composers over a thousand years of Western music, starti…
There is one moment in particular that struck me in "Love in the Time of Corona," the first TV series made about, and during, the pandemic, co-produced and co-starring "Hamilton" Tony winner…
Arts and cultural organizations across New York State are reopening, including 50 in New York City, according to an announcement today by the New York State Council of the Arts. In keeping w…
Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in September, 2020, as we enter the sixth month of winging it online " and experimenting back offline. This month will see Brian Cox a…
Week in Reviews. Week in Theater News. Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News: "Every corner was like a theater production happening right in front of me…" James Altucher recalls about …
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of August? Take this quiz to find out. Â Loading…
There have been 66 known productions of Hamlet on Broadway since 1761, the last one in 2009 starring Jude Law; 48 Macbeths (Ethan Hawke in 2013), 36 Romeo and Juliets (Orlando Bloom and Cond…
In the history of Broadway, twenty-six plays have had runs of more than 1,000 consecutive performances, none before 1918, and none after 1986. Jordan Schildcrout looks at 15 of them in "In t…
 The Women's Rights Pioneers Monument was unveiled this morning in Central Park, accompanied by a new audio play "Talking Statue" by Joanne Parrent, in which Viola Davis, Jane Alexander …
Two members of a book club for Black women have invited M'Balia, an author who advocates violent revolution, to speak to their group and perhaps help turn it into a revolutionary cadre, in "…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. The Broadway community made its political preference clear last week " with performances by Billy Porter and Jennifer Hudson; heck, the producers of the Tony A…
Vanessa Redgrave, the "Greatest Actress of Our Time," according to playwrights Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller " also the daughter, the sister, the mother and the romantic partner of gr…
COVID, loneliness and lack of inclusion are certainly present in some of the theater blogging this month, summarized below, but there seems space these days for a look back. On About Las…
During her hosting duties for the fourth and final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Julia Louis-Dreyfus shot out some zingers. The actress, who became friends with Joe Biden…
Near the end of Joe Biden's acceptance speech on the final night of the 2020 Democratic National Convention (transcript below), he quoted from a poem by Seamus Heaney, the great Irish writer…
Jennifer Hudson sings Sam Cooke's "A Change is Gonna Come," at the end of Day 3 of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, from the elegant Harold Washington Cultural Center in Hudson's hom…
Instead of the traditional roll call nominating their candidate, the delegates at the 2020 Democratic National Convention announced their votes in their home state or territory, standing in …
Tony-winning performer Billy Porter belted out Buffalo Springfield's "For What It's Worth" accompanied by its songwriter Stephen Sills, at the end of Day 1 of history's first Virtual Democra…
"Going high means unlocking the shackles of lies and mistrust with the only thing that can truly set us free: the cold hard truth…Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He ha…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. There's a surprisingly robust schedule of theater coming up for what's usually the dog days of August, including three separate live, in-person plays happe…
Two years ago, Bobby Steggert, a Tony-nominated actor with extensive credits on and Off Broadway (Ragtime, Big Fish, Yank! etc) , surprised the theater community by announcing that he had sw…
"Keep Broadway Alive!' the sign in the first photograph says. It's a picket sign during the demolition of the Morosco Theater in 1982, which, along with the first Helen Hayes, the Bijou, and…
There is SO much to see this weekend: six starry concerts. five plays (some opening, some closing), four festivals and two Netathons. Below is a brief rundown with links to tickets and more …
