5,867 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Denzel Washington’s movie adaptation of “Fences,” August Wilson’s 1987 play, will be in movie theaters nationwide on December 25, 2016. Below is a first movie trailer…
“The Golfer” and “Broken Bone Bathtub” (pictured) were among the big winners of the 2016 New York Innovative Theatre Awards, which honor excellence Off-Off Broadwa…
Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold…
The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opened this past weekend in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photo…
Political theater gets new meanings — and new attention — just six weeks before the Presidential election….and less than three weeks before the cut-off for voter registrati…
Below is a map showing the location of some 40 tables at today’s 30th Annual Broadway Flea Market and Grand Auction, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Click on it (several time…
The National Museum of African-American Culture and History officially opens today in Washington D.C. Among the almost 37,000 objects in its permanent collection are photographs, programs…
A play starring a demonic hand puppet tops American Theatre Magazine’s annual survey of the most popular plays that will be produced by non-profit theaters throughout the country in th…
Sister Act ran on Broadway between March 4, 2011 and August 26, 2012. Patina Miller went on to a Tony-winning performance in Pippin. Below is my review the night it opened, April 20, 2011: P…
Win two tickets to see “Miss Saigon: The 25th Anniversary Performance” in a movie theater near you on September 22. “Miss Saigon” returns to the Broadway stage …
Broadway theater marquees will dim at 7:45 p.m. Wednesday in honor of Edward Albee. Albee, 1928 to 2016, was a provocateur, both in his many plays (the photographs are of recent New York …
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
What Did You Expect?, the second installment of Richard Nelson's trilogy at the Public subtitled The Gabriels: Election Year In The Life Of One Family, is literate (the characters tell a sto…
“Edward Albee, one of the most innovative playwrights of his generation, whose raw, unnerving dramas " and even the few comedies " scraped at the veneer of American success and happine…
In "Missed Connections," a lively 75-minute revue that turns Craigslist ads into 25 songs, one of the six attractive and musically gifted cast members sings about a dead moose. He offers it …
Whenever the two stars of "Marie and Rosetta" sing, it's all that matters: Kecia Lewis swinging and soulful as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a gospel singer and guitarist who filled stadiums and in…
Broadway shows closing, new ones announced; much about theater on screen. But the news for individual theatergoers on a budget are the discount programs in effect now or in the near…
In “Aubergine,” an appealing, lyrical family drama by Julia Cho, life boils down to two essentials — food and death. Each of the characters deals with both, in unexpected w…
The nine teenage girls who are members of The Wolves soccer team in Sarah DeLappe's impressive first professional play do occasionally gossip about one another, or whine about their substitu…
My local supermarket just e-mailed me their weekly deals on raspberries and sushi rolls with the subject head "Always Remember, September 11th." They were not trying to be crass, of course, …
A quarter century after she gained infamy among right-wing critics as the obscene, nude "chocolate smeared woman," performance artist Karen Finley is on stage every Sunday at the Laurie Beec…
"Caught" messes with your head in the most exquisite of ways. In part a send-up of the art scene " the conceptual artist as con artist — it is itself a form of conceptual art, and a se…
"Spamilton," an often clever if uneven spoof of the musical "Hamilton," is like the 26th edition of "Forbidden Broadway," the show that “Spamilton”author Gerard Alessandrini crea…
Mike Daisey has put a script of “The Trump Card,” his latest monologue, on his blog to encourage people to perform it without seeking his permission or paying royalties. I saw Da…
