5,858 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Watch Bryan Cranston and Sally Field live in A.R. Gurney's two-character play about a man and woman writing to one another over half a century. This is the third in a series of new live-stre…
 Katrina Lenk, Jane Alexander and Denée Benton portray 9/11 widows in this half hour play by Matthew Lopez, a radical departure in running time from his Broadway debut play The Inherita…
Watch the streaming of the 2015 concert of "Bombshell," the fictional  musical about Marilyn Monroe that the characters were putting together in the first season of the TV series "Smash" …
One of the exasperating aspects of this new era of online theater is how poor the audio is (either in the platform itself, or in the devices you use…or both), and how few of the most commo…
The 2019-20 Off Broadway Alliance Award winners are: Best New Play Life Sucks By Aaron Posner Produced by Wheelhouse Theater Best Play Revival The Woman in Black Adapted by Stephen Mallatrat…
Below are some of the highlights from The Night of Covenant House Stars (and below that, the full two hour video, featuring some 50 performers.) Â I recommend the highlights. Unlike, say, …
Stageworthy News of the Week: Quickly following last Tuesday's announcement that Broadway will remain shut down until at least Labor Day, Â Disney announced that "Frozen" would not return …
Two brief walks in my neighborhood produced these photographs of signs posted on walls and poles, some there forever and unintentionally relevant, others meant to buck up what few pedestrian…
In the first of his two online Commencement  addresses today, this one to more than 27,000 students at 78 participating historically black colleges and universities, former President Bara…
Among the avalanche of streaming options this weekend are a timely Beckett play and the rich theater offerings of an arts "marathon" " Â both "opening" today " that count as must-see theat…
Below are eight "theater openings"* today, including acclaimed plays from Broadway (Simon McBurney's The Encounter), Off-Broadway (Dominique Morisseau's Pipeline), Â Off-Off Broadway (Mabo…
Watch Joshua Harmon's "Significant Other" live online with the original cast, the second in a series of new live-streamed productions of old plays produced by Broadway's Best Shows When the …
"We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces," says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as t…
'We have a humanitarian crisis in prison that will blow up in our faces," says André De Shields, speaking sonorously and looking grave in a clerical collar and a salt-and-pepper beard, as t…
In the first ever virtual edition of Symphony Space's long-running Selected Stories, four familiar actors are reading the following stories: Riding Solo by Simon Rich Performed by Maulik Pan…
Watch "Frankie and Will," a new one-act play by Talene Monahan, launching MCC's new LiveLab series. It stars Michael Urie as William Shakespeare and Ryan Spahn as his unpaid apprentice. It's…
This play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. To Master the Art falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react. F…
This play about cookbook author Julia Child is a recipe for how not to do online theater. "To Master the Art" falls flat, despite some great ingredients. This is not how I expected to react.…
Look at Tommy Tune mid-flight with top hat and cane, and he's the quintessential song-and-dance man of his generation; he's billed himself as Broadway's tallest tapper. But among what's impr…
The Broadway League has announced that all of Broadway's 41 theaters would remain shut down at least through Labor Day. This simply recognizes the reality of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the p…
As the shut-down of theaters enters its third month, theater artists vow "we'll be back" " that this is just intermission. But will audiences be back? A new three-part survey  by Shugoll …
Below is the complete list of the  70th Annual Outer Critics Circle Awards Honorees. This year all the shows and artists listed  in each of the 27 categories are winners. Multiple hono…
Stageworthy News of the Week. At the finale for the Broadway Does Mother's Day virtual concert yesterday, the cast of Hamilton sang different lyrics to a King George number: We'll be back Ju…
In the hour-long video below, the casts of more than a dozen Broadway shows, and their mothers…and their kids… along with their pets….made jokes, performed shtick, sang songs, and t…
Watch the live Saturday matinee below of "Blithe Spirit," Â a comedy by Noel Coward about a clash of ghosts, starring Angel Desai, Montego Glover, Renee Elise Goldsberry, Â William Jacks…
