5,854 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
In "Relics and Their Humans," we learn that Josh Quillen's father Jerry was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease: "…you will eventually lose all muscle control and then you will die with…
Among the free cultural events happening across all five boroughs this summer, there are many over the next week celebrating LGBTQ+ Pride, leading to the NYC Pride March on June 30, marki…
At the beginning of "The Survival," as she's about to go on her third date with a man she met in a bar, Achan (Janet Kilonzo) tells her best friend that she thinks she's found the one she's …
To say that I found this clever, fun-filled queering of Andrew Lloyd Webber's idiosyncratic 1982 musical at times confusing and even annoying is only to say that it's still "Cats" " much-lov…
"Titanic" turns out to be the ideal musical for an Encores! concert, focused on the music. The original 1997 Broadway production about the most famous maritime disaster in history was an exp…
In his Tony acceptance speech this month, Jonathan Groff thanked his role as the gay character Melchior  Gabor sixteen years ago in "Spring Awakening" for inspiring him "to come out of…
"How wonderful to see you all glistening in the sun," Phylicia Rashad said in Times Square, accepting this year's Legacy Award from the Broadway League as part of the fourth annual Broadway …
Below is a guide to this year's Tony-winning plays and musicals that are still playing " although several are closing soon; one next week.  The listings include a video of the Tony per…
"I'm gonna just talk fast and try not to cry," Daniel Radcliffe began his acceptance speech, and I felt like saying: Take your time! Cry! The Tony Awards is just a TV show, but listening to …
"Stereophonic " won best play, "Appropriat" best revival of a play, at the 77th annual Tony Awards, (Here's a guide to the entire Broadway 2023-2024 Season, including shows not nominated)(He…
The 77th Annual Tony Awards, with host Ariana DeBose, will be broadcast and streamed live from Lincoln Center tonight, celebrating the Broadway 2023 " 2024 theater season with performances f…
You might think that Ariana DeBose would be too busy the night before her hosting duties at the Tony Awards to go to a movie. But the world premiere of "Satisfied,"Â Â a documentary abou…
This eye-opening documentary about the role of social media in spreading white supremacist violence, which just won the Tribeca Festival's Best Documentary Feature Award, is at its most arre…
How did Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Merrily We Roll Along," one of the most infamous flops on Broadway, become one of the biggest hits of the 2023-2024 Broadway season, four…
Below are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2024 Tony Awards, in keeping with a tradition I've been maintaining for more than a decade. I am a critic, not a seer or a bookie. We'll …
Watch Theatre World Award winners past and present talk below about when they first knew they were going to be professional performers. For more on Theatre World Awards, check out Theatre Wo…
Jeremy O. Harris' film about his Broadway play "Slave Play" begins with a young Black woman in an NYU sweatshirt looking straight up at the ceiling and screaming with great violence. It's al…
"Stereophonic" won Outstandint Play and six other awards, "Dead Outlaw" Outstanding Musical and two others at the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards. Full list of winners below. Click here for 20…
Tonight ceremonies will take place for both the 68th annual Drama Desk Awards and the 78th annual Theatre World Awards, leading up to the endlessly anticipated/promoted climax of theat…
"What Became of Us" is at heart a modest, moving two-character play about a brother and a sister, the children of immigrant parents, who tell us about each other over the course of the…
Jessica Lange as Lillian Hall, one of the great legends of the American theater, is about to star once again on Broadway in "The Cherry Orchard." But she  is collapsed on her bed, when…
This first-time feature film by writer and director Nicholas Colia will inspire some of the same knowing laughs among grown-up theater kids as "Theater Camp,"  and some of the same …
"Merrily We Roll Along" and "Oh, Mary!" received the most love at the Second Annual Dorian Theater Awards, winning four categories apiece, while "Stereophonic" won three awards, in…
Samm-Art Williams was born in Burgaw, North Carolina seventy-eight years ago, and died in that same small rural town last month; he liked to tell people he was "just a country boy." Actua…
Twenty-two years after Robert De Niro et al founded the Tribeca Film Festival in the wake of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center, the festival has grown so large and overwhelming that …
