5,854 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Below is the schedule of Broadway shows for Christmas Week. Only three shows have performances on Christmas Day, which falls on a Monday this year, the traditional day off for most of Broadw…
It's refreshing to come across a theater book entitled "Crisis" that's not about the crisis in theater, but about every other crisis in the world " a book that makes the case that theater ha…
In the videos below, Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez record the song "Old Friends" and the title song from "Merrily We Roll Along," the Stephen Sondheim/ George Furth mu…
In a glitzy silver pantsuit, Rachel Bloom enters on stage and at once introduces us to her dog, who is sitting in the lap of a handler (or is it Bloom's husband?) in the front row of the Orp…
It wasn't until Jenn Freeman was thirty-three years old and a well-established dancer and choreographer that her therapist diagnosed her as having Autism Spectrum Disorder. "To arrive at a d…
Theater in 2023 was barely surviving but also thriving, depending on which end-of-year assessment you read (see below), but everybody agrees on Stephen Sondheim as the bright spot of the yea…
"How To Dance in Ohio" is a musical adaptation of a 2015 documentary film of the same name about a group of autistic young adults at a counseling center in Columbus, Ohio, who, as part of th…
What did you think was the best of the thirty-five shows opened on Broadway in 2023? Which was the worst? Take the two polls below. Judge the quality of the show as you see it, not how it di…
Watch the video below of the cast of the Broadway musical Harmony celebrating the first night of Hanukkah with a special post-matinee menorah lighting outside the Barrymore…
The ten videos below were the most viewed in 2023 of those that I've posted either on this blog or on my YouTube channel, @NewYorkTheaterme, arranged in order of popularity. I'm not sure …
Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording released in 2023* from among the 12 in the poll below, ordered alphabetically. If I've somehow missed your favorite, fill in the "Other" slot. (I…
"Manahatta" dramatizes two pivotal, and shameful, moments in New York City history, occurring four centuries apart " the Dutch West India Company's "purchase" of the island of Manhattan from…
There is a stunning kind of poetry in the puppetry employed to dramatize Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee's forty-year-old novel about a simple man who makes an epic journey through the physicall…
Jewish theater artists in the three alternate magazine covers: Clockwise from left: Jesse Eisenberg, Matthew Broderick, Sam Gold, Amy Herzog, Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer and…
While there are always new shows in December (see December 2023 New York Theater Openings), the heart of theater during the month is in many ways the annual holiday shows " plays, ballets, o…
Eddie Redmayne, Jessica Lange, Kelli O'Hara with Brian d'Arcy James, Tyne Daly with Liev Schreiber, Jeremy Strong with Michael Imperioli are all performing in shows on Broadway " and Mich…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features two Broadway openings " a play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins starring Sarah Paulson (see December 18th), and…
A thick smoke billows over the stage as a character sings Spanish operatically in one of the last scenes of "Spain," a play by Jen Silverman that purports to tell the cloak-and-dagger backst…
How well were you paying attention to the theater news, views and reviews in November? Take this ten-question quiz and find out. Loading…
Alexis Soloski, a theater critic for the New York Times, has written a novel about a theater critic, but if that's the lure, beware:Â "Here in the Dark" (Flatiron Books, 256 pages) is mor…
On this twelfth annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y), consider donating to theater in New York. Below, an alphabetical list of more than 100 New York theaters a…
Cyber Monday ticket deals in theater still exist in 2023 (see below) although they are harder to find now, in part because of Elon Musk's relentless degradation of the social media platform …
Theater may be an ephemeral experience on stage, but the ways we have presented and attempted to preserve American musicals everywhere else " the printed page, photographs, the cast album, f…
My yearly list of New York stage shows for which I'm most grateful, which I started posting every Thanksgiving more than a decade ago, returns more or less to normal this year, as t…
My twelfth annual theater gift guide below features links and information on shopping for theater tickets,theater subscriptions/memberships,cast recordings,play scripts and books about th…
