5,807 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
What's most impressive about the Broadway production of Eclipsed, Danai Gurira's forceful drama about the effect of war on five women in Liberia, is that it is opening on Broadway at all. Th…
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis,"Â one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle,…
In a Presidential campaign year that includes headlines like CNN's recent "Donald Trump defends size of his penis," one welcomes the premise behind Richard Nelson's new three-play cycle, The…
Near the end of his alarming and charming rap guide to climate change, Baba Brinkman, who describes himself as a Canadian tree-hugger and the world's only peer-reviewed rapper, stops his rap…
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner …
Danai Gurira is best known for slicing off the heads of zombies in The Walking Dead, but that is about to change. Her play Eclipsed is opening on Broadway March 6, starring Oscar-winner Lupi…
Why would Trevor Nunn, director of the musicals Les Miserables and Cats, choose one of Shakespeare's least-revived plays as the first he's staged with an American company, for an audience in…
The news that Tracy Letts’ play, “Superior Donuts,” which was on Broadway in 2009, is being adapted as a TV series starring Broadway regular and Spotlight co-star Bri…
The season is suddenly in bloom. Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, including a musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell; the next installment of Arthur Miller as interpreted by av…
When Anna Deavere Smith’s one-woman show “Let Me Down Easy” opened at Second Stage Theater in 2009, there was no more timely play — and now that, as she announced tod…
How well were you paying attention to theater news and reviews in February? Take this quiz — which includes questions involving winners of the Oscars, the Grammys, the Tonys, and the P…
Seven of the 20 performers up for Academy Awards have been " or are about to be " on Broadway: (Click on any photograph to see it enlarged) Actor in a Leading Role Bryan Cranston, nom…
April Reign created the #OscarsSoWhite Twitter hashtag that resonated with so many people that it helped foment a national debate over the issue of inclusion in Hollywood. She’s been s…
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
There are two main differences between the candidate debates on TV and the one in Old Hats, in which Bill Irwin and David Shiner don too-white teeth and try to one-up each other: 1. These cl…
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
The most intriguing element in the new production of O'Neill's Hughie, which marks Forest Whitaker's Broadway debut, is Christopher Oram's set. This is not just because the hotel lobby is me…
“Dot” is the fourth play that has opened recently that includes an elderly character suffering from Alzheimer’s " the others are The Humans, Her Requiem,  and Smokefa…
Today, Bobby Lopez turns 41, which seems as good a time as any to resurrect this article I wrote about him and Jeff Marx on September 10, 2009, just as their hit Tony-winning musical Avenue …
"Her Requiem," Greg Pierce's improbable if skillfully acted new drama, now at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater, is supposedly about a 17-year-old high school student's decision to take a …
There is an unintentionally funny sign posted at the Signature Center outside "Angel Reapers," a show by Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry about the 18th century religious movement known as the …
"Smokefall," a fable-like play by Noah Haidle about a family from Grand Rapids, Michigan, feels influenced by the work of Thornton Wilder, with its mix of the homespun and the metaphysical. …
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
The Humans, Stephen Karam's nuanced slice-of-life drama that unfolds during a family's Thanksgiving dinner, has transferred intact to the Helen Hayes, in a production that has become even mo…
“Circle Mirror Transformation” ran at Playwrights Horizons, opening on October 13, 2009 and closing after several extensions on January 31, 2010. It was a remarkable debut for pl…
