5,855 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Below is the Broadway schedule for the last two weeks of 2022 " Monday, Dec. 19 up to New Year's Day 2023 " with links to my reviews of the shows (which contain links to their websites to ge…
Nathan Lane, Jessica Chastain, Josh Groban, Laura Linney and Phillipa Soo are all returning to Broadway in what promises to be the first normal Spring season in four years (or at least we're…
"Ain't No' Mo" playwright Jordan E. Cooper announced on stage last night that thanks to his campaign his play is not closing this Sunday as had been announced; it's been extended to next Fri…
'MJ' musical numbers from opening night, Neil Diamond himself singing opening night at "A Beautiful Noise," two different numbers from "Funny Girl," the debate over Jewish assimilation in "L…
Victoria Clark gave one of my favorite performances last year, for "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway, and she appears again in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performan…
Cara De Silva, journalist, author, scholar, lecturer and friend, died last week " which I just found out on Facebook. This is probably fitting, since she was an avid conversationalist on tha…
The holiday theater season hit some snags this week, with two Broadway shows set to close just weeks after opening, Stomp, an Off-Broadway staple closing after twenty-nine years, and comedy …
"Some Like It Hot" is glitzy, excessive, frenetic and funny,  with hyperactive choreography, a game, talented cast, and a jazzy score with multiple 11 o'clock numbers. Much of th…
Two recently opened Broadway shows abruptly announced their closing this week. Producers of "KPOP" announced on Tuesday that the musical composed by Helen Park would close this Sunday Decemb…
At the curtain call, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast pointed to a huge photograph on stage of Adrienne Kennedy, the playwright of "Ohio State Murders," who is making her Broadway deb…
I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…
After 29 years and 11,472 Performances, "Stomp" will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, create…
This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…
Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: "The Phantom of the Opera" is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the show's…
"A Beautiful Noise" is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond's most popular songs " some of them just snippets in medleys, but "Sweet Caroline" twice "…
"Ain't No Mo'," an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it's not a direct flight. There…
The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film "My Sister Eileen" with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical 'Wonderful Town." Other vintage exa…
There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…
Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. I…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts " one at age 27,…
On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater c…
Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale "Up to 60 percent off" of Broadway tickets From Goldstar, Cybersale "up to 60 perce…
"We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together," says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in any ca…
Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …
My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I'd posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine t…
