5,869 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
More than 100 million people will be watching the 2014 Super Bowl game: How many will be watching for the ads? Here are some Super Bowl XLVIII commercials: Animals Puppy Love — Budweis…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in January? Answer these 10 questions and see.
"Intimacy," the latest provocation by Thomas Bradshaw, begins with promise and ends in pornography. A fresh-faced teenager, Matthew (Austin Caldwell), delivers a heartfelt monologue about hi…
February a fallow month for theater? Feh. While it’s true there are only two plays scheduled to open in February on Broadway, there are far more Off-Broadway, part of a vibrant Off-Bro…
"Pool Play" is immersive theater taken to a literal extreme " everybody, actors and audience, is immersed in water. Conceived and directed by Erin B. Mee, the fully-scripted play will take p…
Click on any photograph to see it enlarged "Stop Hitting Yourself," playful chaos brought to you by the acclaimed Austin theater collective Rude Mechs, is the first stage show I could call c…
It’s that time of year: trees thrown out, critics on overseas trips, snow covering cityscape, few shows opening " and ticket bargains! Now through Feb 6 — #BroadwayWeek. …
If you didn't speak English, or could somehow turn off the sound of "Outside Mullingar," John Patrick Shanley's charming, wonderfully acted and overly weird romantic comedy, the final scene …
Win two tickets to see the Valentine’s Day broadcast of the Broadway production of “Romeo and Juliet,” starring Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad. Â The film will run in m…
Broadway responds satirically to official LGBT discrimination in Russia, and a specific Russian law, enacted in June, 2013, punishing citizens “who disseminate information aimed at min…
As I wrote during the blizzard scare earlier in January, dubbed Hercules: The two questions theatergoers want answered whenever a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Wil…
Disney is turning its animated film “Frozen” into a Broadway musical, and NBC has chosen “Peter Pan” as the successor to “The Sound of Music” for its Dece…
Has there ever before been such a touching love scene between poultry? A young rooster named Odysseus Rex, played by Bobby Moreno like an angry punk with a knife, is introduced to Lucky …
"Why does sex exist?" asks Isabella Rossellini, the Parisian-bred actress, model and director, the glamorous daughter of the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman and the European filmmaker Roberto …
Click on any photograph to enlarge it As King Lear, Frank Langella goes through four distinct and remarkable phases. He begins, brightly lit, in gold crown and red robe, in voice and gesture…
Machinal, now opened in a stunning production at the American Airlines Theater, is the first Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell’s haunting 1928 play, inspired by the murder trial of …
Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director David O. Russell – American Hustl…
"We do hope we stay open, because we do save lives," Â said the intake receptionist at Interfaith Hospital said. "We do serve a purpose." "Promises, nothing more. I am personally sick of p…
Valisia LeKae has left the cast of Motown to focus on her battle against ovarian cancer, but the cast hasn’t left her. Here they sing “I Am Here,”a song written by Julius T…
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science”~ Albert Einstein Broadway Sp…
The creators of "Beautiful," the beautifully performed and tuneful new entertainment now opened on Broadway about Carole King's early songwriting career, faced a challenge — the same c…
January is the month for theater festivals in New York – more than at any time other than the summer - and the stars are out this year in them: Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson,…
Off Broadway this season, David Henry Hwang is telling the story of Bruce Lee in Kung Fu. Frank Langella plays King Lear. Actress  Linda Lavin and playwright Nicky Silver pair up ag…
The first poster for the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, featuring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, both making their Broadway debuts. Also in the cast are Le…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2014 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…
