5,771 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
 MCC presents its latest live reading of a play in the LiveLabs One Acts series, written by Aziza Barnes, and directed by Whitney White. "Two black femmes tend bar in East L.A. until the…
Thirty New York theaters, from Abrons Art Center to WP Theater, are calling on their patrons to lobby New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio and the New York City Council to reset their prioriti…
Every year for decades, New York theaters, bookstores and Irish pubs celebrate June 16 as Bloomsday, the day in the life of Leopold Bloom that is chronicled exhaustively in James Joyce's nov…
#Stageworthy News of the Week. In the mere three weeks since George Floyd was killed, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has received intense attention and growing support. Calls for racial just…
Below are 20 recently published or forthcoming books about theater, listed under four categories: Scripts and Play Anthologies; Biographies and Memoirs Theater History, Criticism and Referen…
  "A Strange Loop" and "The Inheritance" were the  big winners in the 65th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement in the truncated 2019-2020 season  by professional…
America's obsession with Shakespeare has taken some odd, odd turns over the past two centuries " pre-General Ulysses S. Grant was cast as Desdemona in an Army production of "Othello"; one of…
The cast of the fourth Broadway revival sings the opening number of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Company," Â which was supposed to open March 22, 2020 " and must someday, s…
Here are excerpts from Broadway Advocacy Coalition's second day of its three-day forum Broadway for Black Lives Matter Again, a 90-minute live YouTube video attended by nearly 5,000 peop…
Below, 100 minutes of theater talk and theater performance including the opening number of Company, with the New York Times following other publications in becoming online theater producers …
"I couldn't take care of George the day he was killed, but maybe by speaking with you today, I can help make sure that his death isn't in vain. To make sure that he is more than another face…
Below an alphabetical list of theater by and about African Americans that is available online now (and coming soon), much of it directly relevant to the Black Lives Matter movement, all of i…
Strange Loop, Michael R. Jackson's Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, is, itself, stuck in a strange loop. The smash Off-Broadway hit was scheduled to come to Woolly Mammoth Theatre in Septembe…
#Stageworthy News of the Week New York City is set to reopen today " partially " 100 days after the first New Yorker was discovered infected by the coronavirus. But most believe at least ano…
On what would have been the 74th annual Tony Awards, let's celebrate the 41 shows of the Broadway 2019-2020 season, 25 of which actually opened. The shows below are organized chronologically…
Tonight was the night that CBS was going to broadcast the 74th Tony Awards from Radio City Music Hall. But Covid-19 changed all that; now Tony winners Andre De Shields and Bernadette Peters …
An Otello portrayed by a white performer who is not in blackface " a first for the Metropolitan Opera. A dance, set to music composed by inmates at San Quentin, at the Metropolitan Museum of…
"Michael Jackson" is not just "the King of Pop" anymore, but also "the Pulitzer winning playwright." After decades working in obscurity, Michael R. Jackson " or as he puts it, the living Mic…
Below are four "theater openings" today, Â including Lincoln Center's first Broadway Fridays presentation, Â Astoria Performing Arts Center's new entry in its original Musicals from the …
The first memorial service for George Floyd, who died Memorial Day at the hands of Minneapolis police, is happening now in the sanctuary on the downtown Minneapolis campus of North Central U…
Black Broadway veterans and other performers dance in various (emptied-out) New York City landmarks, in a video that director Tavia Riveè (Motown the Musical) has entitled "Dream Like New Y…
Below is a major portion of Barack Obama's comments during the Town Hall on Racial Justice and Police Reform held by My Brother's Keeper Alliance; the transcript is underneath a 90-second ex…
Below is the video and a transcript of the speech by Joe Biden today at Philadelphia's City Hall. "We're a nation in pain," he said in concluding his 20-minute speech. " We must not let our …
#Stageworthy News of the Week. Several days after George Floyd was killed on Memorial Day at the hands of Minnesota police, playwright Jeremy O. Harris called on six theaters that produce hi…
Click here for June 1 openings Below is the calendar of "theater openings"* for June, 2020, with many online shows, series and festivals showcasing LGBTQ Pride Month, and the entire list dem…
