5,808 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
There was a party on stage at the Delacorte this weekend — Big Bird, shirtless capoeira acrobats, horn-players on stilts, a loud four-piece rock band , ballerinas dressed in white, Ind…
John and Julie meet in the kitchen of what we eventually learn is a private sm sex party; he turns out to be an intern for her Dad, who's a famous artist. He's 31, she's 20. She discovers he…
The four busboys who work in the kitchen of a tony Upper East Side restaurant in the well-acted, superbly directed new play by Elizabeth Irwin, "My Manana Comes," bring home a cruel irony of…
A.R. Gurney was surprised at the Signature Theater's choice for the opening play in his playwright-in-residence season with them. "The Wayside Motor Inn was dismissed by the critics when it …
A look at the Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide and especially the Off-Broadway Fall 2014 Season Preview Guide show promise of a rich and varied season. Starting tomorrow …
How well were you paying attention to the theater news in August, some of which was quite silly, some quite sad. Answer these 11 questions and see.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, eating a banana, posed in front of a succinct summary of the 2014-2015 season at the Public Theater – including (fifth from the top) “Hamilton,” an orig…
Here’s what you missed if you went away all summer
In "And I And Silence," a challenging play by Naomi Wallace, two women, Dee and Jamie, one white, the other black, meet in prison when they are teenagers, and after they are released …
Winners of the Fringe Excellence Awards, 2014: Overall Play: Absolutely Filthy The Three Faces of Dr. Crippen This is Where We Live Overall Musical: Jump Man: A Mario Musical King of Kong Ur…
These are supposed to be the dog days of August, but too much is going on — maybe because so many theater people are pouring ice water on their heads, or because we’re looking at…
It wasn’t supposed to be on Broadway at all. Then it was only going to run for five months. But “Newsies” lasted more than 1,000 performances over two and a half years. And…
Sixteen of the most popular shows from the 2014 New York International Fringe Festival will be presented at the 10th annual Fringe Encore series,September 4 to October 5, which (lik…
Listed below, chronologically by opening dates, are the shows officially scheduled so far on Broadway in the 2014-2015 season, with basic information and my two cents for the Fall shows. Bot…
There are 16 shows scheduled to open on Broadway between September and December, 2014 (as of this writing). Take this poll: Which one are you most looking forward to? The shows are organized…
Newsies (half-naked) The Lion King The Book of Mormon Once Tagged: Newsies, Once, The Book of Mormon, The Lion King
In "Kunstler," a fascinating play at the New York Fringe Festival about radical lawyer William Kunstler's most significant cases, playwright Jeffrey Sweet strives to present a balanced portr…
Andrew Rannells replaces Neil Patrick Harris in the lead role of Hedwig and the Angry Inch tonight (August 20th) through October 12th. Harris won a Tony for his portrait of the “girlyb…
Eugene O'Neill wrote "Abortion" exactly a century ago, shortly after he had decided to become a playwright. Director Heather Lanza and producer Taryn A Wisky have chosen to "adapt" O'Neill's…
Death was an unfortunate theme this week, with the passing of two performers , Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, as comfortable on stage as on screen. We are midway through the 18th annua…
"Poor Behavior," Theresa Rebeck's comedy at Primary Stages, revolves around a basic question: "What is goodness?" The play begins in the middle of a debate on the subject by two characters w…
In the first-ever revival of "I'll Say She Is," the Marx Brothers' first-ever Broadway musical, Harpo honks once again; Chico puns, Zeppo courts; and Groucho, cigar in hand, says things like…
"Sex With Strangers," a comedy about a coupling with complications, stars two performers " Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston's wife Skyler in "Breaking Bad," and Billy Magnussen, the boy-toy Spike i…
Mamma Mia opened on Broadway in 2001, just a few months after the first Broadway in Bryant Park, a weekly summer series of free lunch-time concerts featuring current Broadway casts. Cast mem…
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