5,805 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
"Nice to meet you, Kevin. Do you want me to actually kiss Kevin, or Kevin, do you mind if we kiss? You look young, I don't want to traumatize you." That's what the actress says to her direct…
President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposes ELIMINATING the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (T…
Remarkable changes are underway to make Broadway more accessible " hastened by technology, hindered by public attitudes as I explain in an article in HowlRound based on the Broadway Acces…
To celebrate its 25th anniversary, the Encores! concert series at City Center is doing something in "Hey Look Me Over" that it's never done before " and, judging from the results, probably s…
I went to The Tank for a show that wasn't playing until the next night; I'd gotten the dates mixed up. So, since I'd made the trip, I asked if there was anything else playing in the theater.…
Perhaps you'd think it chutzpah that in "In The Body of the World," the latest solo show by Eve Ensler, best known for "The Vagina Monologues," she merges her story of her fight against uter…
It’s always sad to have to say goodbye to an artist whom we’ve loved, so how thrilling to welcome one into the world. Int. Hospital Room. Night. [The screams reach a delirious cr…
Hands down the most watchable commercial during the Super Bowl 2018 game was the “Dirty Dancing" sequence starring Eli Manning and Odell Beckham, Jr. of the New York Giants, in what mu…
Joni's rock star boyfriend Noah breaks up with her on stage in front of an arena full of his fans at the beginning of "Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill Fill," an often fun, over-the-top comedy …
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. Pica…
Fire and Air could not have looked more promising –a starry cast performing a new play by Terrence McNally about one of the most celebrated of dance companies, the Ballets Russes. P…
No shows are opening on Broadway in February, but there are many snippets of Broadway musicals all on one stage — a 25th anniversary celebration of Encores! concert series creates a ne…
The two 17-year-olds are in love. Yet Chris (Tom Pecinka) is the son of the white patriarch from his hometown in Georgia, and Kay (Juliana Canfield) is the mixed-race daughter or another …
The third annual BroadwayCon demonstrated that theatergoers can be as creative as theater makers — witness above the trio of cosplay artists as (left to right) Natasha, Pierre and the …
Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda and original cast members of “In The Heights” sing some of the dozens of songs that Miranda wrote, but left out of, the Tony-winning Broadway musical, du…
Speakers at three of the panels at BroadwayCon — Beyond the Heights: Latinx Representation in Theatre; Fan Tan Fantastic: Asian American Representation; and Being A Critic of Color …
“I wasn’t afraid of the risk; I don’t know why, maybe I’m stupid,” Anthony Rapp said in answer to an audience member’s question about the difficult of goi…
The third annual BroadwayCon, conceived by Anthony Rapp and fashioned after ComicCon, runs this Friday to Sunday at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. Those attending really need to check o…
Phantom of the Opera opened on Broadway on January 26, 1988. A gala tonight (two days early) celebrates the 30th anniversary of the longest-running show in Broadway history. Watch the Red Ca…
Guillermo del Toro's "The Shape of Water" was nominated for 13 Oscars, just shy of the record, and Greta Gerwig became only the fifth woman in history nominated for best director, for “…
"Miles for Mary" is the Mad Ones theater troupe's spot-on, deadpan funny look at a year's worth of planning committee meetings for a local telethon at an Ohio high school. Originally present…
There was a touch of theater in the Women's March over the weekend, with protesters' signs adapting "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins to fit current events, and the retu…
Today, the first anniversary of the inauguration of Donald Trump, is Art Action Day. The day is organized by The Federation, founded last year to spread the message: Art is essential to demo…
Nas, Dave East, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Aloe Blacc perform “Wrote My Way Out” the second of the promised monthly #Hamildrop series, which replace the initially proposed second vol…
A white police officer shoots a black driver five times after pulling him over for a minor traffic violation. But things are not what they seem in "Black, White & Blue"by William Watkins…
