5,807 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
The title character in the musical Dear Evan Hansen is a clinically anxious high school student who is so friendless that he can't get any classmates to sign the cast on his broken arm, exce…
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle has named Stephen Karam’s The Humans as 2016 Best Play and George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along as Best Musical. New York Drama Critics’…
Make your pick for 15 of the 22 categories in the 70th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 12 at the Beacon Theatre in New York City,, a…
From now until the Tony broadcast on June 12th, theater fans will undoubtedly sound like baseball fans, as they weigh in with predictions, protests and probabilities. This is true every year…
Hamilton leads the the 70th annual Tony Awards with a record 16 nominations. Best Play Eclipsed Author: Danai Gurira Producers: Stephen C. Byrd, Alia Jones-Harvey, Paula Marie Black, Carole …
The Theatre World Awards for outstanding New York stage debuts during the 2015-2016 theatrical season have been given to: Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple Carmen Cusack, Bright Star Khris D…
Below is the list of nominations for 2016 Fred and Adelle Astaire Awards for Broadway (and Off-Broadway) dancing. Winners will be announced May 16 and the NYU Skirball Center for the Perform…
The Tony nominations will be announced tomorrow morning, Tuesday, May 3, which will launch weeks' worth of predictions, preferences and objections. Let's start a day early! Below is the list…
Futurity, Guards at the Taj and The Robber Bridegroom were big winners at the 31st Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Complete list of winners Outstand…
May may be seen as the month when theater people are awaiting the Tony Awards in June, but there are also nearly two dozen plays, musicals and “unique theatrical experiences” ope…
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
"Shuffle Along is jazzy, tuneful, full of pep," says one of the rave reviews from 1921 printed on the curtain during intermission at the Music Box Theater, where George C. Wolfe has mounted …
Below are two articles I wrote about Rent shortly after it opened on Broadway on April 29, 1996 (10,512,000 minutes ago.) The first article, published on May 12, 1996, is an interview with c…
The Broadway season has officially ended, although the hoopla over it continues, with the Tony Award nominations to be announced on May 3. Other nominations have already been made public; mo…
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on “Modern Family”, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy M…
Jessie Tyler Ferguson, Mitchell on Modern Family, is starring on Broadway in Fully Committed, portraying Sam, a struggling actor who works as a reservations clerk at a trendy Manhattan resta…
She Loves Me, American Psycho and Bright Star lead the nominations for the 61st annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway a…
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
"None of us can help the things life has done to us," Jessica Lange says as Mary Tyrone. Mary is talking about one of her sons, a drunk, but she herself, a convent girl who married a matinee…
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
The members of the Tuck family spend two hours trying to explain why it's a curse to live forever, but it is only in the final 15 minutes of Tuck Everlasting that the musical drives home wha…
There is nothing idle about the gossip in  "The School for Scandal." That is clear from the very first scene, when the well-named Lady Sneerwell, portrayed by the estimable Frances Barber…
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater. Some of the reasons have …
There are good reasons to savor Waitress, the sweet and tart new musical confection about love and pie, deliciously performed at Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater…It is being promoted…
William Shakespeare is said to have died 400 years ago today, on April 23rd, 1616, at the age of 52, Â having written about death many times and in many ways, as the chart below makes clea…
