5,809 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Longtime rocker and now Broadway songwriter Cyndi Lauper seemed to be getting the cold shoulder from Arthur Treacher, he of the fish and chips but also of Camelot and a dozen other Broadway …
Anthony Weiner, the disgraced former Congressman, has announced via the video below that he is running for mayor of New York City. Should he be running? A native New Yorker, Anthony Weiner, …
The  opera “Anna Nicole,” based on the life and  death of Playbill model and octogenarian billionaire’s bride Anna Nicole Smith, is one of 34 works of opera, theater,…
The winners of two more annual theater awards were announced this past week — the Drama League and the Drama Desk. Some of the winners were not on Broadway. It comes as no surprise to …
 The big winners of the 58th Annual Drama Desk Awards included Matilda, which won the most number of awards, five, including Outstanding Musical, and Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woo…
A cop bumped into Tamara Williams, frisked her, mocked her, then issued her a citation for resisting arrest — a traumatic incident from last summer that became a dramatic one this week…
I raved about the immersive theatrical experience that is "Natasha, Pierre and the Comet of 1912" Â " a new type of dinner theater " when it was performed at Ars Nova last fall, and so was…
"Wood Bones," a play by William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. that marks the inaugural production of The Eagle Project, a Native American theater company in New York City, is a work that excited me " …
This year Sondheim and Chekhov and Tom Hanks and Vanessa Redgrave share honors with a bus. The Drama Desk Awards nominating committee has selected "The Ride" as one of the choices in "Unique…
Broadway’s fresh faces this year include Tom Hanks, one of the world’s most familiar faces, and Yvonne Strahovski, who has a dedicated following for her roles in “ChuckR…
“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” won outstanding new Broadway play, “Kinky Boots” new Broadway musical, Â ”Pippin” best musical revival, “Who…
Now that NBC has canceled “Smash,” what will happen to the original songs created for this TV series about Broadway? Here are 11 that should last. (Lyrics are below the videos) 1…
Smash, the TV series on NBC about the making of a Broadway musical that began with such promise and excitement — and more than 11 million viewers — has been canceled after more t…
The film adaptation of Tracy Letts’ 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “August: Osage County” with a sterling cast led by Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts, will be in movie th…
For Keith Carradine, it was going to the opening of "Hair" when he was 19. For Andrea Martin, it was seeing Chita Rivera at 12; for Jay Armstrong Johnson it was "Disney on Ice" at age four.�…
Michael Urie, best-known as the catty fashion editorial assistant Marc St. James of the TV series "Ugly Betty," is playing some half dozen characters in an acclaimed new play by Jonathan Tol…
Lin-Manuel Miranda, best-known as the wunderkind songwriter and performer for "In The Heights," which four Tony Awards, was hooked on musical theater when at age 12 he was given roles in six…
Andrea Martin, who at age 66 is astonishing audiences as much with her body as with her death-defying performance on a trapeze as Grandmother Berthe in "Pippin," for which she has been nomin…
Tim Minchin, the Australian songwriter up for nearly every New York theater award known to Man because of his score for “Matilda,” thinks that listening to Gilbert and Sullivan �…
Jay Armstrong Johnson, who appeared this on stage both in a revival of “Working,” the Stephen Schwartz musical, and “Hands on a Hardbody,” the debut musical by Trey A…
The 2013 Theatre World Award winners, given to 12 performers making their Broadway (or Off-Broadway) debuts are: Bertie Carvel, Matilda The Musical Carrie Coon, Edward Albee's Who's Af…
Two Broadway shows already have announced their early closing in the week after the Tony Award nominations, prompting odd pushback from the producer of one of the shows. (see 4 below) The To…
In the theater page of today’s New York Times, Testament of Mary producer Scott Rudin has taken out a strange advertisement attacking Times theater reporter Patrick Healy: “Let&#…
What is most striking about the two performers in "Motown The Musical" who re-enact the complicated relationship between Berry Gordy, Jr., the founder of Motown Records, and Diana Ross ̵…
At the beginning of "Surviving Mommie Dearest," an odd show that will run from May 8th to Mother's Day at the Snapple Theater, Christina Crawford, the 73-year-old adopted daughter of mov…
