5,857 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Theatergoers have complained about Zoom plays in the months since the pandemic shut down physical theaters, but it's one of the only ways to "attend" live theater these days, and some produc…
Click here for August 1 openings Below is the day-by-day calendar of "theater openings"* in August, 2020, a month of abundance: Two theatrical celebrations of the 100th anniversary of women'…
How well were you following theater news and reviews in the month of July? Take this quiz to find out.
There are some 750 books on display in Bravo's Book Nook, the only theater bookstore in New York, and possibly the only one open in the country. That's not a lot of books for a bookstore; it…
Publishing a big colorful book as a companion to a Broadway musical is nothing new, but  "American Utopia" the book is surely unique. In the last few years, there have been coffee table b…
Gen Parton-Shin sent me the two videos below of songs from "Hamilton" " "My Shot" and "Helpless" " that he translated into Japanese. I had questions. He answered them. Shin-Parton, who also …
The Week in Theater The Week in News The Week in Videos #Stageworthy News. "Dear Senators: Without your immediate action for financial relief by Aug. 1, we will collapse, and the result will…
"Heroes of the Fourth Turning," Will Arbury's much-acclaimed play about a gathering of former classmates at a conservative Catholic college in Wyoming, not only worked amazingly well as …
Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving leading lady of Hollywood's Golden Age, five-time Oscar nominated actress and Broadway veteran who helped  take down Hollywood's studio system with…
Was "Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark" a flop? Joe Allen didn't think so, refusing to put its poster up on the famous flop wall of his restaurant, saying:Â "Any show that plays for three year…
Below are some of the rich theater offerings available on screens today: Julie Andrews, Laura Benanti and Marga Gomez all star in shows that maddeningly overlap tonight. And Marilyn Horne at…
Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …
The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after that,…
Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…
#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I've written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least on…
Historically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play " a recording of which is being streamed onlin…
Watch Amadeus below or at National Theatre. Historically, "Amadeus" is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play " a…
A friend passed along this video of 17,572 singers from 129 countries performing Eric Whitacre's "Sing Gently," and included a poem by Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also be sin…
An 2020 Obie winning play about conservatives who hurt too; Â Julianne Moore as a mother whose daughter complains about her plastic surgery; a starry anthology on the theme of "promise." �…
So there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before "Hamilton," three years before even "In The Heights," galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip…
 In "Good As New," a funny and pointed 25-minute play that MCC streamed live online, Julianne Moore as Jan is arguing with her daughter Maggie (Kaitlyn Dever) on Maggie's 16th birthday, …
Watch the 22nd annual Broadway Barks, renamed Broadway Barks across America because this year for the first time it's online, with co-founder and host Bernadette Peters, an adorable lineup o…
Tommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims "I'm a Queen…I'm hot," does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tambourine,…
Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical "Peter Pan" had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast intact,…
The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…
