5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Here again, celebrating the new year by saluting a dozen Broadway veterans, aged 91 to 105. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged and read the caption. Why, you may ask, is Betty White,…
The dozen videos below were the most viewed of those I posted on my YouTube channel, New York Theater, in 2017. Anastasia , Once Upon a December Anastasia highlights Jordan Fisher on making …
Who wants to remember 2017, much less answer questions about it? To make this quiz slightly easier to take, references to Donald Trump have been (largely) avoided (and put into a separate qu…
Below is a list of theater books, most of which were published in 2017. Click on the titles to find more information and to purchase these books, grouped under four categories: 1. Scripts, i…
It might be a stretch to say that the theater community has a special relationship with Donald Trump, or even a special antipathy. But in my looking over the theater news of the past year, i…
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
There were so many memorable theater-related moments this year that were not part of any scripted show that they threatened to upstage any moments on stage. Even some of the most encouraging…
Anything about "Hamilton" was still popular on NewYorkTheater.me in 2017, nearly three years after the musical first opened, Off-Broadway. 5 BEST-READ POSTS IN 2017 1. The 50 Best Plays of T…
My annual New Year’s Eve last-minute guide features the Broadway show schedule for New Year's week, and other theater, as well as parties, concerts,intimate dinners, cruises, and…
This seems the right day to feature Ann Harada, in the original cast of Avenue Q, as a character named Christmas Eve. Today, we look back at 2017, with the top New York theater stories of…
oc It was a year of shocks. In 2017, we got Hurricane Harvey and Harvey Weinstein, indecency in the White House and terror in Times Square. Meryl Streep began the year speaking out against D…
“Hamilton” opened on the West End Thursday night. If it should come as no surprise that London critics, as much as New York ones, give largely ecstatic reviews of the hip-hop mus…
Yes, there will be stars on Broadway in the Spring – Denzel Washington, Diana Rigg (after an absence from Broadway of 24 years), Glenda Jackson (after an absence of 30 years), Laurie M…
My ten favorite individual performances in New York stage shows that opened in 2017 are listed alphabetically, with explanations for my choices largely excerpted from my reviews, but let's b…
Some people wonder why the same holiday shows are so popular, year after year. Some people just attend them year after year. Below, see the schedule for Broadway shows both during the week l…
Now seems the right time to start summing up 2017 (though watch for more such looks back in the two weeks remaining of the year.) Top 10 Lists of Top 10 New York Theater 2017 Poll: Worst Bro…
It’s no secret that original cast albums were the gateway drug for many lifelong theater addicts. Just ask Lin-Manuel Miranda or Todrick Hall. Choose your favorite recording from among…
Billed as the first live TV commercial for a movie, Hugh Jackman leads in this song-and-dance number to promote The Greatest Showman (Starts at the one minute mark) Watch for Zendaya, Zac Ef…
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
Four years after their splendid debut on Broadway, Shakespeare's Globe returns to the beautiful Belasco Theater with a show that in a few glorious ways resembles their spectacular Twelfth Ni…
When A Christmas Story is being broadcast live tonight on Fox (starting at 7 p.m. ET), a reworked version of the Broadway musical by Pasek and Paul, it'll be the latest example of a trend th…
“The Band’s Visit” is a favorite of all but one of the drama critics whose top 10 lists for New York theater in 2017 are listed below. (The only critic to omit it this year…
"The Children" begins as what seems like a small, slow domestic drama about three aged friends in an English seaside cottage, but turns into an unsettling meditation on some very large theme…
Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. Â For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-b…
Fiasco Theater offers a Twelfth Night for theatergoers who've never seen Twelfth Night or Fiasco Theater before. For almost a decade, the ensemble company has been praised for its bare-bones…
