5,893 stories 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…
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…
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…
"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…
"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 …
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…
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…
 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…
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is going online. (Check out the thirty below.) Â Now, officially; the oldest and largest fringe festival has been canceled because of the pandemic. But the fe…
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…
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 …
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…
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'…
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of July? Take this quiz to find out.
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…
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…
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 …
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…
"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 …
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…
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:Â "Any show that plays for three year…
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…
Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after that,…
Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…
