5,808 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Within the next few days, the winners of four New York theater awards will be announced, and more than half a dozen new plays will open.  Here is the schedule of May theater openings a…
He's a rich restaurateur, she a poor schoolteacher. Although decades older than she is, he prances and fidgets like a rock star, while she stands still like a rock. Yet, for six years, Tom a…
The new Whitney Museum in the Meatpacking District opened yesterday to the public, and today they are throwing a block party — and free admission….if you’re willing to wait…
Some may see May as the month when theater people are waiting for the Tony Awards in June, but don't be fooled. There are at least 21 shows opening in New York this month, including one on B…
We probably all have an answer to ‘What show changed your life?’Â For DCTS editor Lorraine Treanor, her path to being an English teacher changed the day she saw Elaine Stritch…
While it’s not hard to find an actor or writer waiting tables or bartending in New York to make ends meet, we found one Tony Award nominee who doesn’t plan to give up his day job…
Glee is gone, which gives Darren Criss the chance to take the grease out of his hair, and smear it over his body, as the latest Hedwig in the Broadway blast, Hedwig and the Angry Inch…
The morning after the 69th Annual Tony Award nominations were announced, Tony Award nominee, Brandon Uranowitz, nominated for creating the role of Adam Hochberg in An American in Paris, sat …
How well were you paying attention to theater in April? Answer these 13 questions and find out.
The nominations for the 69th annual Tony Awards will be announced today at 8:30 a.m. Best Play Best Musical Best Revival of a Play Best Revival of a Musical Best Book of a Musical Best Perfo…
The last two weeks were the busiest of the entire year in New York theater, with the opening of the last TEN shows of the Broadway season. Below reviews of those shows, plus one high-p…
Fun Home is, yes, a musical about a lesbian cartoonist whose closeted father killed himself, but it is also about how we try to figure out the puzzle of our parents; about how we reassemble …
"Grounded," a play directed by Julie Taymor and starring Anne Hathaway as a drone pilot, could not be more newsworthy: It is opening at the Public Theater just days after the news that a U.S…
"Living on Love," which marks opera singer Renee Fleming's Broadway debut, portraying a temperamental Diva married to a oversexed Maestro, has some of the best-delivered songs on the Great W…
What’s easiest to predict about the Tonys this year is that the predictions and objections will start as soon as the nominations are announced, which this year is on Tuesday, April 28,…
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
Airline Highway, Lisa D'Amour's loving look at the makeshift family of misfits that hang out at a seedy motel along the old Airline Highway in New Orleans, is not a musical, but it is full o…
When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
When the wealthiest woman in the world returns to her bankrupt hometown in The Visit, reactions range from "Her dress, her jewels…like a great film star!" to "half-Jewish, half-gypsy, 100%…
Hamilton and An American in Paris received the most nominations for the 60th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and …
There is a musical number early in Something Rotten that thoroughly delivers what the show's title, cast, creative team, and poster art have promised — Monty Python subversive sillines…
By the end of the show, despite the cleverness of its concept, Something Rotten as executed simply hasn't added up to a completely satisfying musical. Its choreography seems too repetitive, …
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
I had hoped that a major benefit of winning the Cold War would be no longer having to sit through a show like Doctor Zhivago, a musical adaptation of Pasternak's novel that presents the Russ…
Seventy women including Rita Wilson, Mamie Gummer and Kathleen Chalfant promote gender equality in the arts and entertainment through this three-minute #MakeItFair Video. (They sing at the e…
