5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
By Lin-Manuel Miranda Puerto Rico"my family's island, America's island"is in desperate need of supplies and resources. Like Texas and Florida, Puerto Rico was just devastated by a natural di…
Bruce Springsteen makes his Broadway debut in a show that combines memoir with rock n roll, and that relatively few of his fans will be able to see. It is one of three shows opening on Broad…
Late September is a time for…..weddings, apparently. Idina Menzel married her “Rent” co-star Aaron Lohr; Steven Pasquale married Phillipa Soo; and Andrew Keenan-Bolger annou…
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
Max Posner's play is called The Treasurer because a grown man is forced to take responsibility for the finances of his aged, widowed mother. But the title also suggests that he will take sto…
As Amy Herzog's gentle new play begins, Mary Jane is deep into idle chatter with the building's superintendent Ruthie, who's in the apartment to fix a clogged drain, when we hear a beep. It …
Saloon Theater’s mouthful of a play – “Six Translation of Uncle Vanya at the Same Time” — was a big winner in the 13th annual New York Innovative Theater Awards…
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
Alex, the sadistic, Beethoven-loving juvenile delinquent at the center of Anthony Burgess' 1962 dystopian novel and Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, has returned, this time Off-Broadway, as sexy…
After seven books and eight movies, J.K. Rowling thought she was done with Harry Potter. “I genuinely, I didn’t want Harry to go onstage,” Rowling said in the video below. …
Below is a map showing the location of some 50 tables at today's 31st Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several times) to …
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
KPOP, the wildly (and loudly) entertaining immersive theater piece offering the audience a tour of a Korean pop music factory, begins and ends with 15-minute concerts by the Korean boy group…
Below is the list of the most-produced plays compiled by American Theatre Magazine of member theaters of Theatre Communications Group (in other words, non-profit theaters throughout the Unit…
“West Side Story” opened on Broadway on September 26, 1957. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, Google Arts & Culture is presenting a virtual exhibition that explains its hist…
The 33rd Annual Artios Award ceremony will be held in Los Angeles and New York on January 18, 2018, celebrating outstanding achievement among members of the Casting Society of America. Here …
With its big clue of a title and its two characters named Joe and Jose, one expects "Neighbors: A Fair Trade Agreement" to be an allegory about the political relationship between Mexico and …
Below is the list of Emmy winners, with Broadway veterans in red. (Off-Broadway vets in green.) Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series " John Lithgow, The Crown Outstanding Suppor…
The nominees for the 69th annual Emmy Awards include, as usual, many whom theatergoers like to claim as our own. All the Emmy-nominated performers pictured above are Broadway veterans, altho…
With Lin-Manuel Miranda ("Hamilton") and John Leguizamo ("Latin History for Morons") serving as co-hosts, the Broadway League presented its annual Viva Broadway concert Friday evening, as…
Choose the three shows that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates in the Broadway 2017-2018 season as of this writing, and they are listed chro…
“She Loves Me," "Falsettos," "Noël Coward's Present Laughter" "Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" and “Indecent” will all be broadcast on Friday nights this Fall on PBS, with …
The first production photographs of Frozen the Musical, which opens tonight at the Buell Theatre in the Denver Center for the Performing Arts. It will move to Broadway’s St. James Thea…
In the months after her defeat by Donald Trump in the race for President, Hillary Clinton was so devastated, she writes in her new memoir, “What Happened,” that she had trouble f…
In honor of Michael Friedman (September 24, 1975 – September 9, 2017) here is my October 29, 2011 review of "Let Me Ascertain You: Occupy Wall Street, Stories From Liberty Square,̶…
