5,807 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
‘When the New York Times published a photograph of the cast of Grease Live this week, Noah Robbins posted it on his Facebook page and noted: "I'm on the far right, apparently practicin…
Undeterred by the second biggest blizzard that New York has experienced since 1869 " which shut down the city and Broadway too —Â they came from Canada and Florida, Las Vegas and dow…
The blizzard that attacked New York City on Saturday, deposited 26.8 inches of snow in Central Park, making it the city’s second-largest blizzard since 1869. But that’s all hi…
The shutdown of public transportation during the blizzard has caused the Broadway League to cancel all performances of Broadway shows for Saturday, January 23, 2016, both matinee and evening…
On Day 1 of Year 1 of BroadwayCon, being held for three days at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, we learned: “It’s like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face pa…
Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung s…
Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end two hours later playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung sev…
Early Monday morning, January 11th, on the day that the cast of "Lazarus" was due to record David Bowie's songs for an album, Bobby Moreno, who performs in the show, got a text on his smart …
Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…
Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…
Dominique Morisseau was moved to write Skeleton Crew, her compelling play about a group of Detroit auto workers, after the playwright met a woman who was reduced to living in her automobile …
Dominique Morisseau, the author of Skeleton Crew, the compelling final play in her Detroit trilogy which focuses on a group of Detroit auto workers, won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright A…
Meteorologists are warning that the season's first significant winter storm may be arriving in New York City as early as this Friday, January 22, 2016. (Weather Channel forecast) Although it…
Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lin-Manuel Miranda went back to his elementary school for his second indoor #Ham4Ham: Here's his first…
Dorothée Munyaneza grew up in Rwanda listening to a popular Saturday morning variety show on the radio called Samedi Detente. When she was 12 years old, in 1994, 800,000 of her fellow Rwand…
David Lawson is a New York theater person, which is to say he makes his art for the stage, but, like thousands of others, he makes his living doing something else. He hands out flyers in Tim…
How far is too far to get your art out to the public? What if it meant collaborating with Joseph Stalin? That is the black comedy at the heart of "Collaborators," a first play by John Hodge …
Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…
Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…
Best Picture The Big Short, Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, Marc Platt and Kristie Macosko Krieger Brooklyn, Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey Mad M…
"Key Change," we're told, is a theater piece "devised" by women inmates in a prison in the north of England called Her Majesty's Prison Low Newton, although a playwright, Catrina McHugh, is …
Elmore James, who will be singing with two Jewish blondes and another African-American man in the "Soul to Soul" concert this Sunday, grew up in Harlem and made his Broadway debut in the bla…
“This is history!” Steven Spielberg scribbled. “No words — just exaltation,” wrote Oprah. "The best show ever! (Outside The Producers)" – Mel Brooks. &…
David Bowie, the most theatrical of rock stars, died two days after his 69th birthday, while his first musical, Lazarus, is still being performed at the New York Theatre Workshop. Of the 18 …
"The Changeling," a gory and convoluted play that takes place in a Spanish castle and in an insane asylum, should intrigue students of Shakespeare, if for no other reason than that it was wr…