5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Fifteen women have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. On this International Women’s Day, we celebrate them and their work. (Each play title is linked to an Amazon page where you can lea…
As Lin-Manuel Miranda did with "Hamilton," so Dave Malloy came up with the idea for his innovative hit Broadway musical, "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," while reading a book u…
March is a busy month for theater, as usual, but that’s not the only way madness seems to have taken hold. Luckily, there is help for stressed out theater people. Opening today:Â The…
Jenny and Emily are both 14 years old, new friends in a small-town suburb in South Carolina in the 1980s; they both love horror movies; they both want to lose their virginity. In "All the Fi…
In "If I Forget," a well-acted, often funny and always engaging Jewish family drama by Steven Levenson (the book-writer for Dear Evan Hansen) we travel back to an era that no longer exists e…
"Over a hundred thousand people died today," the character played by Michael Emerson (Lost, Person of Interest) tells us in "Wakey, Wakey," the latest ethereal, esoteric play by Will Eno, wh…
In "Significant Other," Jordan is a gay man who has three best friends he met in college, all women, each of whom in the course of Joshua Harmon's play finds a mate and holds a fancy wedding…
The Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Â Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of Londo…
Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of London's olde…
Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, more than a dozen Off-Broadway, and plenty Off-Off Broadway as well, with a mix of exciting new work — by John Leguizamo, Lynn Nottage, and …
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
It was a theater kind of movie night. (List of winners ) The best picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, was based on the play, Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, by Tarell Alvin McCraney (playwright…
Theater fans can watch the 2017 Oscars just like sports views view the World Series. Three examples: 1. If Lin-Manuel Miranda wins an Oscar tonight for his song “How Far I’ll Go&…
How well were you paying attention to the theater in February? Answer these 13 quiz questions to find out.
"Art isn't easy," Jake Gyllenhaal as George sings in the fourth Broadway production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's "Sunday In the Park with George," inspired by one of the most popul…
With "Everybody," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts "Everyman," the 15th century morality play, for a modern secular New York audience. The idea here is inspired, and the world premiere producti…
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
1 Theater artist Anna Deavere Smith received the George Polk Career Award, one of the top awards in journalism. "This was not a traditional choice for us, because she doesn't fit neatly in t…
Below is a photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. One thing seems certain about the most uncertain presidency in U.S. history — Donald Tr…
In honor of Presidents Day, I resurrect my review of “Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened on Broadway on October 13, 2010 and closed three months later, on January 2, 20…
There was thunderous applause the night I saw "Sunset Boulevard" for Hillary Clinton as she took her seat right before the musical began. It would be snarky to observe it was the greatest ov…
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
