5,808 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
The Phantom of the Opera Art Gallery and Pop-Up Shop is open for business — as of noon, Friday October 24th — showcasing the 26 winners of the nation-wide contest “PHANTOM:…
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "The Fortress of Solitude" begins with a sensory overload of song…the sounds of a Brooklyn block, circa 1975. That sets the tone for this ener…
"No killing, no dead body, no sex, no nothing. Just talk." That line is uttered near the end of "Billy & Ray," a play about the collaboration of director Billy Wilder and writer Raymond …
Eugene O’Neill, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller and Angela Lansbury and Linda Lavin all had birthdays last week, “On The Town” was reborn on Broadway to the biggest raves since …
Whatever else the great American writers Emily Dickinson and Dorothy Parker have in common, they are each by coincidence the subject of solo stage plays that are opening tonight, "The Belle …
Theater producer Ken Davenport looked at the shows that won the Best Musical Tony over the past 20 years, sliced and diced facts about them, and produced the infographic below. Most interest…
The “freaks” (cast) of Side Show, which opens at Broadway’s St. James Theater November 17th.
The audience at "On The Town," the thrilling Broadway revival of the 1944 musical that brought us “New York, New York, it’s a helluva town,” doesn’t wait until the…
Win a speaker from Lin-Manuel Miranda (In The Heights, Hamilton), Christopher Jackson (The Lion King, In The Heights, Holla If Ya Hear Me) and the rest of the cast of Freestyle Love Su…
Davy Rothbart was having a weird day " his boss fired him; a mugger took his wallet and shoes; he couldn't get his car to start – when he found a slip of paper that changed his life……
Outside, on a shingle hanging from the marquee of the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater, Ben Brantley is quoted as saying: "Deliriously Dishy…It's a Hit." But inside, on the stage, Brantley is quo…
While we wait for Stephen Sondheim’s new musical — which the Public Theater has already committed to producing, although there is not even a title yet (see “11” be…
Tonya, the cheeky daughter in "While I Yet Live," has a problem with God (He's "a wee bit passive aggressive, and vindictive") and the Bible ("It's the most violent book I've ever read.") an…
There are three shows on Broadway this season that are theater about theater — The Country House, It’s Only A Play, The Real Thing. What’s your favorite theater about theat…
The feud between the writers Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy began on public television, so it's fitting that the play about their quarrel, "Hellman v McCarthy," with the great Roberta Max…
In Terrence McNally’s backstage comedy “It’s Only A Play,” bound for Broadway in 1978 and finally arrived there 36 years later, a group of stars — played by a g…
The Broadway marquees will dim for two theater artists, Geoffrey Holder and Marian Seldes, who both died this week – tonight (Wednesday) for Seldes and Friday night for Holder.  …
In their walk around Greenwich Village – the last artist walk of the Elastic City Walks Festival, which has a closing night benefit tonight – theater director Niegel Smith,…
Broadway  is one of the ten greatest streets in America in 2014, according to the American Planning Association, to which the average New Yorker might reply — “Just in 2014…
Like the unusual character at its center, "The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-Time," a stage adaptation of a beloved book, overcomes a couple of daunting challenges to become….ex…
To help explain how "The Country House" could be so mediocre despite an award-winning playwright's classic inspiration, a first-rate production and an exemplary cast, let's start with a scen…
The lives, loves and letdowns of women in an office in John Van Druten's 1931 play "London Wall" were presented a little differently at the Mint Theater earlier this year than on television …
Finally, the Lear nobody's been waiting for, a Lear for people not in the mood for tragedy, a Lear Light, an economic Lear, cast with just eight actors, who not only portray multiple charact…
Some of the shows opening in October. Click on any photograph to see it enlarged. October is one of the three busiest theater months in New York, with some 40 shows opening sometime this mon…
In "Indian Ink," Tom Stoppard's complex, challenging beautifully acted and sometimes fascinating play about an Englishwoman in pre-independence India, Stoppard does something that sure…
