5,867 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
“Sleep No More” is Punchdrunk Theater's staging of Macbeth, as if retold by Alfred Hitchcock and Isadora Duncan. It has been running since 2011 in a formerly abandoned club in Ch…
"The Grand Paradise" can be a fun, hip and sensuous two-hour holiday with a cast of 20, all attractive, some barely clad, in a cleverly designed beach resort from the hedonist 1970s. It can …
Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will be the host of the 70th Tony Awards June 12th. He won his Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors. Grease Live, the fourth live television …
Actor Forest Whitaker and playwright Stephen Karam make their separate Broadway debuts this month in the only two Broadway shows opening in February — a revival of Eugene O’Neill…
Grease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-de…
Below is the tracklist for Grease live broadcast on Fox today January 31, 2016, 7 to 10 p.m. The song titles are linked to lyrics as performed either in the original 1972 Broadway production…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these dozen questions —  about BroadwayCon and the blizzard and Hamilton and which Al P…
In "Sojourners," a curious kind of love story among oddly carved characters, a man visits the hospital room of a woman he just recently met who's given birth to the child of her absent husba…
I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…
‘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…
