5,809 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Six by Sondheim, a documentary that debuts on HBO on Monday, December 9th, looks at six of Stephen Sondheim’s landmark songs: “Something’s Coming” from West Side Stor…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater news in November? Answer these ten questions to find out. As always, the questions are based on my weekly summary of New York theater n…
My gift guide from 2012 proved so popular that I am updating it for 2013. Call them theater lovers or theatre lovers or drama queens or Broadway Babies: If you have somebody in your life who…
The performance of a number from the Tony Award-winning musical Kinky Boots at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade had America all a-Twitter. It had the bigots out in force, at least ju…
Sign up here for my new New York Theater Weekly Email Newsletter, which will have a quick rundown of New York theater news and reviews, plus special offers and contests. A sample of the firs…
Win a pair of tickets to either Bedlam’s Hamlet or St. Joan. The  much-lauded Bedlam theater company employs just four actors playing all the roles (more than 50), offering &#…
2013 has been an amazing year in theater in New York City, and, rather than waiting another month, Thanksgiving seems the right time to express one’s gratitude with a top 10 list. As i…
With the lines blurring between professional and amateur drama critics, and indeed between anointed critics and avid theatergoers, we thought it worth hearing from more alternative voices. H…
After the Tony Awards broadcast, the Thanksgiving Day Parade is probably the best opportunity for television viewers to see performances by current casts of Broadway shows. But the week of T…
The Broadway production of “Waiting for Godot” sells itself, which is a relief, since it means I won't have to sell it. Its two stars, British actors Sir Patrick Stewart and Sir …
In “Regular Singing,” the fourth, final and most emotional play in Richard Nelson's pioneering Apple Family series, a character says that the assassination of JFK was one of the …
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated 50 years ago today, an event that will be memorialized around the country — a solemn ceremony in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where…
The three male witches are the stars of the Lincoln Center production of Macbeth on Broadway, even though Ethan Hawke plays the title character, according to several of the reviews on openin…
Small Engine Repair feels like an hour-long acting lesson, full of fast, tough and jocular exchanges. The problem is that John Pollano's play is 70 minutes long " and the last ten minutes tu…
Kissing Spider-Man goodbye: Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark will close January 4, 2014, after a tumultuous three years of breaking all sorts of records nobody would want to break " as well as …
The 271 words of the Gettysburg address, which President Abraham Lincoln delivered on November 19, 1863 (150 years ago today), are read in this Ken Burns video by 25 people: Presidents Barac…
Win the original cast album and  two free tickets to see Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a musical adaptation of a scandalous slice of Tolstoy’s War and Peace by …
All The Way, the play about LBJ starring Bryan Cranston that has announced it will open on Broadway this season, doesn’t have a Broadway theater or an opening date yet, but it does hav…
Jefferson Mays dies eight times in "A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," a musical now opened on Broadway whose story is familiar to those who have seen the 1949 Alec Guinness movie, "Ki…
Aladdin, Disney's new stage musical with music by Alan Menken (Newsies, etc.) currently playing in Toronto, will begin performances on Broadway at the New Amsterdam on February 26, an…
Billy Crystal reprises his autobiographical one-person show, 700 Sundays, through January 5, that he presented on Broadway in 2004. Many of the reviews are positive, although some feel the s…
Win two free tickets to see The Winslow Boy, a well-reviewed play currently on Broadway about the true story of a father who fought to clear his son’s name, and the effect it had on hi…
Fun Home, a remarkable musical now running at the Public Theater through December 15,  swiftly lays out what it seems to be about, when a middle-aged Alison compares herself to her fa…
“Before something can be brilliant, it first has to be competent” — from list of lessons learned in Song of Spider-Man, newly published memoir by Glen Berger, book writer o…
After a Romeo on a motorcycle, Macbeth in an insane asylum, and Julius Caesar in a women's prison, Mark Rylance decided to bring his own high concept to Shakespeare's plays " presenting …
