5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
“I am a foolish man…I am crushed, I have been crushed by fate,” cried out Reg E. Cathey as King Creon, at a climactic moment in  the free Saturday performance of “…
As "Pipeline" begins, we learn that a black teenager has gotten into a physical scuffle with his teacher and is in danger of being expelled, and arrested. But playwright Dominique Morisseau …
The actor Matthew McConaughey sells his soul to the devil, and then tries to get it back, in this musical that opened the 2017 New York Musical Festival, which describes the show in its prog…
As you might have heard, Oscar Isaac walks around in his underpants in the Public Theater production of "Hamlet." But the most startling visual occurs much later. There's a sudden, striking …
There are two kinds of questions posed by the Improbable Theater Company's production of "Opening Skinner's Box," a stage adaptation of the 2004 book by Lauren Slater that describes ten famo…
Near the end of this musical revue surveying 50 years in song of Jewish immigration to New York, one of the talented performers, Daniel Kahn, delivers an astounding rendition of "Roumania, R…
"Who will want a play by William Shakespeare?" his wife Ann asks him, unkindly, in their home in the hick town of Stratford-Upon-Avon, as he is about to depart for London in 1589 to become a…
Summer means outdoor entertainment, much of it free– like the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concerts… Watch Groundhog Day at Bryant Park – three songs …and Broadw…
Actors don’t realize how hard it is to work with animals, observes animal trainer William Berloni in the video below, during the 2017 Broadway Barks animal adoption event at Shubert Al…
In "To T or Not To T," a fascinating and funny autobiographical monologue, the performer known as D'Lo impersonates his father giving a speech at D'Lo's wedding ceremony: "Even though I was …
In "Cost of Living," an eye-opening play featuring a quartet of extraordinary performances, playwright Martina Martok offers a tart retort to that sappy Barbra Streisand song about the luck …
Andy Karl, Barrett Doss and more than a dozen other cast members of the Broadway musical “Groundhog Day” performed three songs at the Broadway at Bryant Park lunchtime concert to…
Before the start of "Kim's Convenience," Soulpepper artistic director Arthur Schultz introduced it to the New York audience as "the most successful new Canadian play of the last decade." The…
As Americans celebrate our 241st Fourth of July, it's bracing to realize that the most patriotic new show on Broadway is "Come From Away," a musical about Canada. But American patriotism on …
This is an unusual month for New York theater: While there are no shows opening on Broadway, and few Off-Broadway, there is plenty to see " the annual summer theater festivals, such as the N…
A ninth century Pope, a 21st century female Buddha, Â Liberace with a notorious gangster, Errol Flynn with Fidel Castro, Matthew McConaughey with the devil, a Conquistador’s daughter…
Canada Day, almost always on July 1st, is special this year for two reasons: 2017 marks Canada’s 150th anniversary. And it’s the first day of Soulpepper on 42nd Street. Starting …
Third Rail Projects, the dazzling experimental and self-described "experiential" company that has created engaging site-specific theater in an old mental institution in Williamsburg ("Then S…
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There's a story told in "Marvin's Room" of a young man named Clarence who took a swim during a beachfront picnic, dunking down into the water and popping back up several times, each time lau…
Near the end of "Seeing You," a dance and theater piece about World War II written and co-directed by Randy Weiner (a producer of both Sleep No More  and Queen of the Night ), I le…
Indecent, which announced it would close on Broadway today, suddenly reversed itself this week, and will play on until August 5. It seems a fitting Pride Day gift for this backstage play abo…
It would seem just the right timing for the first adaptation on a Broadway stage of "1984," George Orwell's chilling 1949 novel of a future totalitarian society. The book long has been so th…
Below is the 2017 Kilroys list of 37 plays by women and trans writers of color most recommended in a survey of “273 influential new play leaders” Â Most of the plays have never…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to “The Traveling Lady,” a play by Horton Foote at the Cherry Lane Theater. The play, about a woman who journeys to a small town in 1950’s …
