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5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"

U is for Leslie Uggams. Her Broadway career in photos and videos by Jonathan Mandell

The Harlem-born daughter of a chorus dancer at the Cotton Club and a singer in the Hall Johnson choir, Leslie Uggams began performing on television at the age of six; at seven, she was openi…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 3:26pm on August 13, 2020

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Delaware Speeches August 12, video and transcript by Jonathan Mandell

"Is anyone surprised Donald Trump has a problem with a strong woman" Joe Biden said in his speech today introducing his running mate, Kamala Harris. Both speeches are  below, in video and…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52pm on August 12, 2020

Book Review. Pal Joey: The History of a Heel by Jonathan Mandell

The Rodgers and Hart musical "Pal Joey" is surely best-known these days for its most recorded song "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and for the stars who played Joey " Gene Kelly in the …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:41pm on August 12, 2020

Kamala Harris Chosen as Biden's Running Mate. by Jonathan Mandell

Joe Biden has picked Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate. Biden's reasoning, and below that, some immediate reactions: Biden on Harris: "I've decided that Kamala Harris is the best per…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:33pm on August 11, 2020

Songs From An Unmade Bed: Watch B.D. Wong Remake It by Jonathan Mandell

Watch the 45-minute video below, available through August 14 B.D. Wong has made brilliant use of his months in quarantine, creating a witty and inventive entertainment from a 15-year-old sol…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:52pm on August 10, 2020

What onstage theater looks like, five months in. #Stageworthy News by Jonathan Mandell

The Week in Theater Reviews. The Week in Theater News. The Week in Theater Videos. #Stageworthy News of the Week. In the first Equity-approved professional musical production to open in Amer…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 8:43am on August 10, 2020

No Blue Memories: Black Poet Gwendolyn Brooks via Manual Cinema by Jonathan Mandell

"No Blue Memories: The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks," was presented on a Chicago stage during the centennial of the birth of the noted poet, the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize in…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 7:24pm on August 9, 2020

Howard on Disney Plus: The Broadway talent who rejected Broadway by Jonathan Mandell

"The last great place to do Broadway musicals is in animation," says Howard Ashman, in "Howard," a new documentary on Disney+ that offers a simultaneously sad and inspiring look at Ashman's …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 4:09pm on August 8, 2020

Theater to See This Weekend, Aug 7-9: Edinburgh Fringe, Antigone in Ferguson, Dutchman. by Jonathan Mandell

Below are my recommendations for three plays with starry casts "opening" and available only this weekend, two documentaries about theater, and a theater festival that  New Yorkers can see…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 2:00pm on August 7, 2020

Homebound Project 5: Homemade Benefit by Laurie Metcalf, plus Lena Dunham, Kelli O'Hara, Brian Cox, Austin Pendleton, by Jonathan Mandell

Laurie Metcalf seemed to be having trouble with the camera, and, frankly, with her life, in this fifth and final edition of Homebound Project, as she made a special appearance to read some l…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:42pm on August 6, 2020

Broadway in Bryant Park: Watch Corey Cott, Phillipa Soo, Nick Cordero, Billy Porter, George Salazar 2012-2019. by Jonathan Mandell

  Below are some of the most popular numbers I videotaped from Broadway in Bryant Park, the weekly summer concerts, from 2012 until.2019, including Corey Cott in "Newsies", Nick Cordero i…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 5:17pm on August 5, 2020

Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Your Home! by Jonathan Mandell

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is going online. (Check out the thirty below.)  Now, officially; the oldest and largest fringe festival has been canceled because of the pandemic. But the fe…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 4:36pm on August 4, 2020

Not Doomed to Zoom. #SaveTheArts in Limbo. #Stageworthy News by Jonathan Mandell

The Week in Reviews . The Week in News. The Week in Videos  Broadway Bares;Tangled the Musical. #Stageworthy News of the Week. If Broadway won't return until Summer 2021, as UK impresario…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 2:14pm on August 3, 2020

Watch #WhileWeBreathe anthology and read my review by Jonathan Mandell

Watch the hour-long video of 11 short new plays below. In "Holla," a serial killer (Will Swenson) wearing the  distorted white mask from the Scream series, makes an ominous phone call to …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 9:10pm on August 2, 2020

Poll: Which Play Used Zoom Best? by Jonathan Mandell

Theatergoers have complained about Zoom plays in the months since the pandemic shut down physical theaters, but it's one of the only ways to "attend" live theater these days, and some produc…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:29am on August 2, 2020

August 2020 Online Theater Openings: What's streaming day by day by Jonathan Mandell

Click here for August 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in August, 2020, a month of abundance: Two theatrical celebrations of the 100th anniversary of women'…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 8:45am on August 1, 2020

Theater Quiz for July 2020 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of July? Take this quiz to find out.

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:53am on July 31, 2020

NYC's Only Theater Bookstore is Open for Business by Jonathan Mandell

There are some 750 books on display in Bravo's Book Nook, the only theater bookstore in New York, and possibly the only one open in the country. That's not a lot of books for a bookstore; it…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:20pm on July 30, 2020

American Utopia The Book: David Byrne's Lyrics and Maira Kalman's Theater Curtain by Jonathan Mandell

Publishing a big colorful book as a companion to a Broadway musical is nothing new, but  "American Utopia" the book is surely unique. In the last few years, there have been coffee table b…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 6:17pm on July 29, 2020

Watch Hamilton in Japanese, translated and performed by Gen Parton-Shin by Jonathan Mandell

Gen Parton-Shin sent me the two videos below of songs from "Hamilton" " "My Shot" and "Helpless" " that he translated into Japanese. I had questions. He answered them. Shin-Parton, who also …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:43am on July 28, 2020

Not the Hamilton Logo! Performers to Politicians: Save the Arts by Saturday! by Jonathan Mandell

The Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. "Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result will…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:15pm on July 27, 2020

How Heroes of the Fourth Turning became a vision of what theater can be online. Director Danya Taymor Q and A by Jonathan Mandell

"Heroes of the Fourth Turning," Will Arbury's much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only  worked amazingly well as …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 6:08pm on July 26, 2020

RIP Olivia de Havilland, 104! by Jonathan Mandell

Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood's Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped  take down Hollywood's studio system with…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:18pm on July 26, 2020

Book Review: Flop Musicals of the 21st Century by Jonathan Mandell

Was "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" a flop? Joe Allen didn't think so, refusing to put its poster up on the famous flop wall of his restaurant, saying: "Any show that plays for three year…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:11pm on July 25, 2020

What Theater to Watch July 24: Diva Dilemma! by Jonathan Mandell

Below are some of the rich theater offerings available on screens today: Julie Andrews, Laura Benanti and Marga Gomez all star in shows that maddeningly overlap tonight. And Marilyn Horne at…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 1:22pm on July 24, 2020
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