5,809 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
In Motown the Musical, his fifth Broadway show, Eric LaJuan Summers , plays six roles: a member of the Four Tops a member of the Contours songwriter Brian Holland a member of The Jackson 5, …
A day after Sardi’s restaurant unveiled the portrait of Cuba Gooding Jr., who made his Broadway debut in “The Trip To Bountiful,” the show announced he will give his final …
Many pick "Once" or "Phantom of the Opera" as their most romantic theatrical experience, but Lourdes Pagan picks Pippin and, after hearing her story, most would surely agree. She went to the…
Zachary Quinto, who is about to make his Broadway debut in the 7th Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie,” offers a one-minute discourse on the di…
None of the cast of the new Broadway production of "The Glass Menageries" was impressed with Tennessee Williams' play when they first read it in school — not Zachary Quinto, not Ch…
Few would dispute how important the right cast is to a show. Would “The Nance” worked as well with Nathan Lane, or “Assembled Parties” without Judith Light and Jessic…
Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time ~ Thomas Merton Spider-Man was back in the news this past week several times, and not, on balance, in a good way. “…
Mae West was born on August 17, 1893, and while she’s now known primarily as a movie star, she debuted on Broadway shortly after her 18th birthday, which was long before her Hollywood …
Nearly every show I saw during the first week of the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival gave me a measure of satisfaction — unusual for the Fringe. In other words, I lucked ou…
Daniel Curry, 23, one of the nine dancers who dons a Spider-man costume in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is reportedly in Bellevue Hospital in serious condition after his le…
Arthur Darvill and Joanna Christie, who have been playing the leads in “Once” on Broadway for the past month, performed at the final Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert of …
About a third of the way through “Soul Doctor,” a Broadway musical fashioned out of an impressive song catalogue and a remarkable true story, an Orthodox rabbi walks tentatively …
Billy Porter, the Tony-winning star of Kinky Boots, uses his Twitter feed to write sayings of optimism and encouragement. A sampling: Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone else&…
The team behind "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" has turned Shakespeare's "Love's Labour's Lost" into a rock musical, now opened at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, and if you have to tu…
Remember Mr. Burns from “The Simpsons”? So will earthlings in a post-apocalyptic civilization. That is all they’ll remember. That is the premise of Ann Washburn’s …
This week features two ticket giveaway contests — Â one ending today, the other beginning. What is your favorite play or musical about a political figure? Why OR What current or hist…
Ticket Giveaway:Â Win two tickets to see "Romeo and Juliet," Â Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy, in its first production on Broadway in 36 years. Directed by David Leveaux, it stars …
Over the course of the evening that unfolds in "First Date," a slight but often charming musical about a blind date, the more experienced Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) offers Aaron (Zachary Levi)…
At the end of "Money Lab," the entertaining and enlightening "economic vaudeville" playing too briefly at The Brick Theater, one of the performers led us in a hymn to money. "Turn to pag…
Romeo and Juliet as biker and his chick? It was just a photo op. Orlando Bloom zoomed in a motorcycle onto the sidewalk in front of the Richard Rodgers Theater on Broadway, where a new bi-ra…
Bruce Vilanch, successful Hollywood writer (and Hollywood Square), has never even seen a show at the New York International Fringe Festival before, much less performed in one. “I live …
Midway through "Harbor," Chad Beguelin's uneven but ultimately rewarding comedy at Primary Stages, Ted is boasting about his boyfriend Kevin to Kevin's 15-year-old niece. "A few years af…
A video under six minutes that substitutes candy for crystal meth and uses adolescent actors, but is otherwise quite accurate about the TV series that is in its last season. Tagged: Breaking…
Ticket Giveaway: Â With Zimbabwe’s 89-year-old dictator Robert Mugabe last week extending his 33-year rule for five more years, there is no better time to see the “rivetingR…
“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have,” Maya Angelou has said. “Talent can’t be taught, but it can be awakened,” said Wallace Stegne…
