5,855 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
The long weekend is a good time to catch up on theater that is available online for free. Some of it has been around for a while and may remain so; four of the shows below are planning to go…
The original challenge to the creators of "1776" was how to make a commercial musical comedy out of something as somber and dry as the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Half a cent…
"We are not criminals…" Kristina was saying "We are refugees," Bohdana added, "seeking asylum." Kristina Obluchynska and Bohdana Yakobchuk were two of the seven women from Ukraine who were…
On the same night that I saw the exquisitely acted Broadway production of "Cost of Living" " Martyna Majok's Pulitzer Prize-winning play that tells the parallel stories of two disabled peopl…
Tom Stoppard's nineteenth play to open on Broadway, and the Fall 2022 season's first, launches a busy and exciting theatrical month in New York " eight shows just on Broadway, including two …
"Leopoldstadt," a play by Tom Stoppard inspired by the death of his own extended family in the Holocaust, begins with a family tree projected onto the scrim of the stage at Broadway's Longac…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in October, a thrilling selection featuring eight Broadway shows (four of them Pulitzer winners, a fifth the nineteenth Broadway play in…
How well were you paying attention to New York theater in September? Answer these dozen questions to find out. Loading…
Before the curtain rises at BAM's Harvey Theater on this wordless, whimsical and haunting hour-long theater piece cryptically entitled "300 el x 50 el x 30 el,"  a huge screen proje…
In MarÃa Irene Fornés' 1984 musical "Sarita" " presented in a rare staged reading free online through October 16th as part of Roundabout's Refocus Project " we first meet the title chara…
With the announcement this week that Mike Birbiglia is returning to Broadway for his latest solo show about his life, "The Old Man and the Pool," (opening at the Vivian Beaumont November …
"Cheek to Cheek," an intelligent, entertaining musical revue that showcases two dozen of the songs that Irving Berlin wrote for movie musicals, makes no claims that his work in Hollywood ecl…
In the music video below, Deaf West Theater interprets Lin-Manuel Miranda's song "We Don't Talk About Bruno" into American Sign Language in a music video from the animated film "Encanto," cr…
Choose the show that you are most looking forward to, of the twenty that have an official opening on Broadway in October, November or December 2022. They are listed chronologically below by …
The 1934 Broadway debut of "Four Saints in Three Acts," a then-shocking and much celebrated avant-garde opera with a libretto by Gertrude Stein and a score by Virgil Thomson, featured an all…
At "Sesame Street the Musical," an hour-long show in which nine puppeteers portray 11 familiar Sesame Street characters who each get a familiar Sesame Street song to sing, there was one musi…
Theater is evanescent; that's part of its appeal. The one exception seemed to be "The Phantom of the Opera." But this week the musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber and directed by Harold …
Sometimes the set design is the best thing about a Broadway show. I thought that about "Moulin Rouge," which won Derek McLane his second Tony Award for set design. Sometimes the sets are wha…
It's a shock, but it probably shouldn't be. "The Phantom of the Opera," the longest-running show in Broadway history, will close on February 18th, shortly after commemorating its 35TH ANNIVE…
On the third day of her three-week trip to New York City, the ten-year-old Syrian refugee, and 12-foot-tall puppet, visits Father Duffy Square in Times Square, where she looks over the TKTS …
FDR knew. In 1943, Jan Karski told President Roosevelt firsthand about the Holocaust, after Karski, a Polish diplomat turned Resistance fighter had been smuggled into both the Warsaw Ghetto …
Little Amal, a ten-year-old Syrian refugee and a 12-foot-tall puppet, has traveled 6,000 miles since July 2021, arriving today in New York City, first at JFK Airport, for 55 events over seve…
Sheryl Lee Ralph gave an acceptance speech for the ages when she won the Emmy award last night for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as the veteran kindergarten …
The first four new Broadway shows of the Fall season begin performances this week, although they won't officially open until next month.  Two more shows were added to the Broadway 2022…
Machine Dazzle walks with me through some 80 of his fabulously intricate costumes on display at the opening day of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Art and Design, to one of some two doz…
