5,855 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
(Full list of nominees here) (Don't know the difference between the Drama Desk and the Drama League and the Drama Critics Circle and the Outer Critics Circle awards? Check out my New York…
A dozen luminous first-time New York stage performers, plus Harvey Fierstein, and 21 members of the ensemble of The Music Man, were honored at the 76th annual Theatre World Awards " the firs…
The 75th Annual Tony Awards will be presented next Sunday at Radio City Music Hall and live on your TV or (more likely) computer, celebrating the strangest of Broadway seasons, which officia…
Below are two short videos from the two new Broadway musicals that were most nominated for 2022 Tony Awards: "A Strange Loop" by Michael R. Jackson received 11 Tony nominations, "MJ the Musi…
When Alexandria Wailes was growing up, people would stop her mother, incredulous, and ask her: " Your deaf daughter is dancing!? How is that possible?" She reminded Wailes of this over br…
In Mansa Ra's new play, three generations of Black gay men live under the same roof "Â Â grandfather, father and son. If it's hardly unusual of late to see Black queer male characters on…
Below is a selection of theater opening in June, presented in a day-by-day calendar and featuring several festivals, mostly outdoors and mostly free, as well as an usual number of hybrid …
While we await the remaining theater awards to top off the triumphant and traumatic 2020/21-2022 season, the next Broadway season is starting to take shape. The latest announcement: The New …
Memorial Day became an official national holiday in 1971 to honor Americans who died in military service, some 1.1. million people since the nation's founding. But it feels appropriate t…
Take this quiz about the nominations for the 2022 Tony Awards, and some of the other theater awards announced in May. Loading…
'Fat Ham," this year's Pulitzer Prize winning play, which opened tonight at the Public Theater,  is inspired by "Hamlet," but it parts ways with the Bard, and not just because of all t…
An 18-year-old yesterday shot and killed at least 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a mass shooting that occurred just ten days after another 18-year-o…
Harmony was designated new new musical and Sanctuary City best new play in the 11th annual Off Broadway Awards. (Check out my New York Theater Awards 2022 Guide and Calendar) BEST NEW MUS…
Theater awards season is heating up, with four of the major annual theater awards announcing their winners or nominations this past week; favorite shows are coming into focus. I won't call t…
There is no question which side playwright Margaret Vandenburg favors in her play "Roe v. Wade 2.0,"Â which is inspired by the Supreme Court's oral arguments in the case Dobbs v. Jackson W…
The story that seems to be struggling to emerge from "The Karpovsky Variations" concerns Julia Karpovsky, an American Jew who spent her childhood abroad and is trying to connect with her fam…
"The Lehman Trilogy" was voted outstanding play and "A Strange Loop" outstanding musical at the 88th annual Drama League Awards, which were announced today at the Ziegfeld Ballroom. Sutton F…
"When I was a kid in the Bronx, I went to the theater for $1.10," says Emanuel Azenberg. Granted that was a while ago; he's 88. But he is also a Broadway producer and general manager with ni…
Sanaz Toossi, California-born daughter of immigrants from Iran, has racked up awards for her two New York debut plays this season, "English" and "Wish You Were Here."* Both are set in Iran, …
A century and a half after the first American musical, the art form "is growing up, and it is time for us to address the growing pains," historian Margaret Hall said at her TEDx Broadway tal…
Below is the complete list of the nominations for 2022 Chita Rivera Awards for dance and choreography, on Broadway, Off-Broadway and the movies, with the love spread wide. The awards will be…
"Six"won outstanding Broadway musical, "Lehman Trilogy" outstanding Broadway play, "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway musical, and "Prayer for the French Republic" Off-Broadway play at the 71st …
Having taken the trip to Gowanus to see "Will You Come With Me?," a play billed as exploring "the chaos and complexities of living through an uprising," I had dinner at a local vegan rest…
Six and Kimberly Akimbo lead in the nominations for the 66th annual Drama Desk Awards, which honors achievement by professional theater artists on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Off-Off…
In What happened last week at "Girl from the North Country" and "for colored girls…" might not be miraculous, precisely, but they're the kind of stories in the face of adversity that peopl…
