5,806 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
In Nicky Silver's new play at the Vineyard Theater, "This Day Forward," we're back again in Silverland — a gay man who has trouble with relationships must deal with his selfish, acerbi…
Leigh Silverman, director of the 50th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, recently spoke about art being "a tool for education, revolution, and resistan…
Leigh Silverman, the director of the 50th anniversary Off-Broadway revival of Sweet Charity starring Sutton Foster, recently spoke about art being "a tool for education, and revolution, and …
When President-elect Donald Trump Tweeted this week "The Theater must always be a safe and special place," it was part of his eruption against the cast of Hamilton for directly addressing Vi…
Vice President-elect Mike Pence saw Hamilton tonight on Broadway, where he was both jeered and cheered by a disruptive audience at times. At the curtain call, Brandon V. Dixon, who plays Aar…
African American types and stereotypes crowd the stage in the striking revival of Suzan-Lori Parks surreal and cryptic 1990 play at the Signature " a man in sharecropper overalls holding a w…
The question hanging over Othello The Remix, 80 minutes of often entertaining and inventive raps written, composed, directed by and co-starring the Q Brothers, is how much it has to do with …
"Party People," a look at the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords, is powerful and intelligent documentary theater — although the documentary theater part struggles for attention a…
The 90th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will feature (as it traditionally does) numbers from Broadway musicals — on CBS, The Color Purple, Â On Your Feet, and School of …
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
An opera with an unwieldy title based on Tolstoy's War and Peace seemed an unlikely crowd-pleaser, but I was thrilled when I saw it Off-Broadway, first at Ars Nova in 2012, and again in a ci…
Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton performs the song “Hallelujah” by Leonard Cohen, who died at age 82 on the day before Election Day. The terribly apt lyrics include…
After seeing the current revival of "Falsettos," New York Times critic Charles Isherwood deemed it perfect, while the New Yorker's Hilton Als considered it perfectly awful. "There's hardly a…
On this Veteran’s Day, watch Adam Driver — Star Wars villain, Girls beefcake, Broadway veteran and military veteran — talk about his journey from Marine to actor. Dr…
Had I seen Signature Theatre's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating i…
Had I seen the Signature's fine revival of Athol Fugard's most popular play just a few days earlier, I might have appreciated it primarily as a well-wrought work of theater, relegating its d…
Hillary Clinton’s concession speech (emphasis in boldface added) “Thank you so very much for being here. I love you all, too. Last night I congratulated Donald Trump and offered …
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
The Gabriels: Election Year in the Life of One Family, a trilogy of plays by Richard Nelson presented in real time at the Public Theater, ends the way it began eight months ago " with the Ga…
One of the first things we learn in “Notes from the Field” — in a projection on the curtain — is that nearly six million voting-age people can't vote in the 2016 pres…
The following 18 Broadway shows will close on Election Day, November 8, to encourage people to vote for President (All but one " those with asterisks — are performing on Monday, Novemb…
Why would anybody want to revive "Finian's Rainbow," a 1947 musical that features dancing black sharecroppers and a leprechaun whose pot of gold was stolen by a crafty old Irishman named Fin…
In keeping with the casting of Liev Schreiber as a frilly 18th century French libertine in the ill-timed if stylish new Broadway revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, may I suggest some actor…
“Heisenberg” is a play starring Mary-Louise Parker as a wacky 42-year-old American who kisses a 75-year-old stranger on the neck in a London train station, setting off an improba…
Like Grapes of Wrath, Lynn Nottage's Sweat offers a devastating look at social and economic breakdown, told not with rants or statistics, but through a riveting tale about good people in a b…
