5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
Below are brief videotaped interviews with Barbara Barrie, Gideon Glick, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Lindsay Mendez — four of the cast members of “Significant Other,” a play b…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 1. 25 photographs of kisses on stage over the past century, and 2. videos of five of Broadway’s most romantic love songs, Click on any photo…
Theater goes back thousands of years — driven home by newly available theater-related images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and overpriced Broadway ticket prices won…
In "Beardo," we are back in Russia with Dave Malloy, the composer of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." Instead of a Broadway theater, the Pipeline Theater Company's new producti…
The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discov…
Below are theater-related images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among them, a statuette of an actor from Attica, Greece 2,500 years old. Theater masks from first cent…
Geoff Sobelle, self-declared "maker of absurdist performance art," is credited as the creator and performer of "The Object Lesson," but it at least co-stars thousands of boxes. These are box…
"Fade" is a play about the bond that develops between a Mexican-born TV writer and a Mexican-American janitor at the studio. Its author, Tanya Saracho, is a Mexican-born TV writer/producer w…
From magazine and newspaper covers to posters and cartoons to Super Bowl commercials and Saturday Night Live skits, there is a growing graphic protest against Trump and his policies, much of…
The original Schuyler sisters of “Hamilton” – Phillipa Soo (soon to be back on Broadway in Amelie), Â Renee Elise Goldberry, and Jasmine Cephas Jones — Â will sin…
It's best to start your activism young, advises Celia Keenan-Bolger, an actress nominated three times for Tony Awards, who grew up in a family of activists. That way, "it's like your …
How closely were you paying attention to the New York theater news on and off stage in January? Take these 10 questions and see. (The photograph of Mary Tyler Moore, from “Whose Life I…
Below is my 2009 review of Superior Donuts, the play by Tracy Letts, which opened on Broadway on October 1, 2009, and closed on January 3, 2010. A new TV series of the same name, starring Ju…
Broadway this month will see the opening of two starry musical  revivals by two of the reigning composers of musical theater — Stephen Sondheim (86) and Andrew Lloyd Webber (68) …
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
Yen, a bleak British play that opens tonight Off-Broadway, stars Lucas Hedges, Oscar-nominated last week for his role in Manchester by the Sea, and Justice Smith, of the Netflix hip-hop dram…
Scenes from BroadwayCon 2017 Previews of Anastasia, Amelia, Come From Away, Significant Other etc.; A surprise Q and A with Lin-Manuel Miranda via live video from London, followed by the int…
Lin-Manuel Miranda appeared at BroadwayCon 2017, via FaceTime from London. Do you have any advice for people pursuing theatre in college? Lin-Manuel Miranda: The answer is this: Study all th…
“This has been a tough week, but we’re in a safe space,” said one of the organizers of BroadwayCon 2017, the second annual convention of theater fans, this time held in the…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984 “ reportedly have soared after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, talked about "alternative facts." It's not her…
“La La Land,” the musical tribute to Los Angeles, leads The Academy Award nominations with a record-tying 14, Lin-Manuel Miranda received an Oscar nomination for best o…
