5,855 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
When I first saw Yeshiva-educated stand-up comic Alex Edelman's solo show about his attendance at a meeting of white supremacist antisemites, it didn't occur to me to compare him to Daniel i…
Three Broadway plays are closing next Sunday, July 2: Fat HamPrima FacieThe Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window  " and four more Broadway shows are closing during the summer: Life of Pi and …
Below is an alphabetical listing of the 8 Broadway plays or musicals currently running (two of them only until next week!) that feature LGBTQ+ characters " some centrally, some peripherally;…
Sheldon Harnick, who died this morning at the age of 99, was a lyricist best-known for "Fiddler on the Roof," but it was just one of the musicals he wrote with Jerry Bock. In the first video…
One more time indeed!  Like "& Juliet," this jukebox musical features songs made popular by Britney Spears; like "Bad Cinderella,"  its central character is a rebellious vers…
Broadway in Bryant Park, the free weekly lunchtime concerts performed by the casts from current Broadway shows, has announced its schedule for Thursdays in July. Below the schedule are vi…
John Rubinstein, a Tony-winning theater veteran who made his Broadway debut 51 years ago originating the role of Pippin, a cheerful curly-haired young prince looking forward to a life of adv…
Fifteen years after Mike Daisey created a show called "How Theater Failed America" he provides a blunt update in the essay below: Nothing has changed and, after COVID, former theatergoers "h…
"Raisin in the Sun" was the first play that Kenny Leon directed on Broadway and it offered plenty of parallels with his own childhood in St. Petersburg, Florida, where he was met with hostil…
There have been no shortage of fathers on Broadway.  "Life with Father," Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's adaptation of the stories by Clarence Day Jr., which ran from 1939 to 194…
The dramatic incident that propels "The Doctor" is clear: A Jewish physician refuses to allow a Catholic priest to administer last rites to a 14-year-old girl who is dying from sepsis after …
Watch the short video below of the world celebrating Bloomsday once again today, June 16th " the (very long) day in 1904 that James Joyce's novel Ulysses chronicles in the life of the …
The breathtaking performances by Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara in "The Days of Wine and Roses" are enough justification for this stage adaptation of the sad, dark story about a couple …
More than two decades in the making, PAC NYC, the performing arts center at the World Trade Center site, which will have an official ribbon-cutting September 13, today announced its inaugura…
You saw the musical numbers on the Tonys Sunday and thought: That looks great, maybe I should get a ticket. But what of the straight plays that (as usual) didn't get showcased? That's why I …
The 76th annual Tony Awards, which crowned Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt as best play and Kimberly Akimbo by David Lindsay-Abaire and Jeanine Tesori as best musical (complete list of winner…
Below are videos of the thirteen musical numbers presented at the 76th annual Tony Awards Opening number Best musical: Kimberly Akimbo Best musical revival Parade Best musical nominees &…
The 76th annual Tony Award winners (with a check mark ✔ï¸): (Here's a guide to the full 2022-2023 Broadway season, including those not nominated)(Here is the list of the nominees I…
How to watchThe 76th annual Tony Awards will be presented tonight from 6:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET, live in person at the United Palace in Washington Heights, and simultaneously broadcast and/or…
"You're all very in touch with your emotions here," the very British Jonathan Sayer said wryly after listening to some of the acceptance speeches at the 67th annual Drama Desk Awards at Sard…
Below are my preferences " not predictions " for the 2023 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 …
"We are not professional liars; we are professional pretenders," Brian Stokes Mitchell  began what was supposed to be  an acceptance speech for his John Willis Award for Lifetime…
Is "The Merchant of Venice" antisemitic? Was Shakespeare?  "The Shylock and the Shakespeareans," playwright and director Edward Einhorn's retelling of the Bard's long-controversial pla…
Joe's three messed-up adult children long have known Joe to be an alcoholic, an addict and a horrid father. But they didn't realize he was an alien from Outer Space. They learn this " and so…
"The Comeuppance" both begins and ends with Death.  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' dark, smart play features Death as a character, hanging out with five former classmates during the night of …
