5,861 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Watch videos of ten great American protest songs, some of which have become so popular that many people forget their origins in patriotic protest -- just as some seem to have forgotten the m…
Six recommended shows from the Hot Festival, which is billed as the oldest queer theater festival in the world
I saw 15 of the 45 shows in the Hot Festival on opening night and I can say al…
This week in New York theater: the July 4th week Broadway schedule. List of Broadway shows closing this summer. The 2019-2020 season on Broadway and at The Flea, Ars Nova, HERE Arts Center, …
"Moulin Rouge The Musical" is opening on Broadway this month, and both comedian Dave Chappelle and singer Barry Manilow will have "Broadway residencies," which is a pretentious way of des…
In front of the Stonewall Inn, on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which gave birth to the modern gay rights movement:
How well were you paying attention to theater in June? How much do you know about LGBT theater history? Find both answers in this 10-question quiz
Theater lovers should expect "a spirit of adventure and invention" from the shows at The Shed, according to Alex Poots, the artistic director of this new $500 million arts center on West 30t…
Near the beginning of David Cale's shocking autobiographical one-man show, he gets a laugh when he explains that Luton, the industrial town where he grew up 30 miles north of London "had…
For the 19th year in a row, Bryant Park is the site of free lunchtime concerts by cast members of current Broadway (and some Off-Broadway) shows  on Thursdays in July and August between 1…
A starry cast of 18, including Annette Bening and Zachary Quinto, performed "The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts", a 77-minute adaptation of the Mueller Report by Pulitzer-…
At the 11th annual Jimmy Awards, Ethan Kelso won Best Performance by an Actor  as Will Bloom in Big Fish at Salt Lake School for the Performing Arts in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Ekele Uke…
An all-star cast will perform a live reading of The Investigation: A Search for the Truth in Ten Acts, Robert Schenkkan adaptation of the Mueller Report. This one-night only event, beginning…
The 2019-2020 Broadway season is still in formation, but there's enough exciting already scheduled to offer this preview: Lin-Manuel is producing his hip-hop improv group on Broadway, and re…
"Contradict This! A Birthday Funeral for Heroes," by the freewheeling Philadelphia-based group called The Bearded Ladies Cabaret, is being presented as part of La MaMa's celebration this…
"Avenue Q" is no more, the Bil Baird Marionette Theater died decades ago, but there is plenty of puppetry in New York, as I detail in my article for TDF Stages, 5 Theatres You Need to Know: …
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
Toni Stone was the first woman to play big-league professional baseball. She succeeded Hank Aaron playing second base for the otherwise all-male Indianapolis Clowns of the Negro American Lea…
"The Secret Life of Bees" " first a 2001 best-selling novel, then a 2008 all-star movie, now a musical written by theatrical all stars Lynn Nottage (Sweat, Ruined), Duncan Sheik (Spring Awak…
The first publicity shot from Steven Spielberg's movie remake of "West Side Story," planned for December 2020, came on the same week as the death of Franco Zeffirelli, whose 1968 film of "Ro…
"A Strange Loop" is a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling to write a musical about a big, gay black guy who is struggling….. Michael R. Jackson, the musical's talented boo…
The stunning production of "Fairview," Jackie Siblies Drury's challenging play, is now being remounted with the same extraordinary cast and creative team at the Theatre for a New Audience in…
"….I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes," Molly Bloom says, the l…
Moira Buffini's inspired, inventive play about Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher " two women born six months apart and forced to deal with one another for the 11 years …
In 1944, when FDR was running for an unprecedented fourth term as President, the Democrats kicked out his then-Vice President, Henry Wallace, and nominated Missouri Senator Harry Truman to r…
For the next three days (June 12th to 14th), you can get free tickets for certain seats at various future performances of live theater, concerts, dance, and comedy, courtesy of Goldstar's…
