5,911 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
“This has been a tough week, but we’re in a safe space,” said one of the organizers of BroadwayCon 2017, the second annual convention of theater fans, this time held in the…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
In The Liar, the title character wonders whether, given his disposition, he should become a politician. But, if David Ives' version of Pierre Corneille's 1644 verse play may benefit from new…
Sales of George Orwell’s novel “1984 “ reportedly have soared after Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Donald Trump, talked about "alternative facts." It's not her…
“La La Land,” the musical tribute to Los Angeles, leads The Academy Award nominations with a record-tying 14, Lin-Manuel Miranda received an Oscar nomination for best o…
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
Love puzzles, and messes up, the dozen characters in Tell Hector I Miss Him, a play wonderfully acted by a cast that includes veterans of Orange is the New Black. If the play itself sometime…
The theater community in New York and across the country countered a depressing week coming out of Washington D.C. (#potentialgrizzlies, #alternativefacts) with events signaling resistance b…
Eleven years after his death, playwright August Wilson answers Donald Trump's bleak depiction of "inner cities," with "Jitney," the first play Wilson wrote in his ten-play American Century C…
People across the country, including New York artists, have gathered in myriad ways this month to declare their support for threatened American values. Click on the photographs below to see …
My 101-second video of the Ghostlight Project, in which people gathered in theaters in all 50 states to create light for dark times ahead. I focus on the small, moving ceremony outside the C…
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
Wakka Wakka, the theater company behind Made in China, says the show is "inspired by true events." I suspect the true part doesn't include Mary and her neighbor getting sucked down her toile…
The story of Inauguration Day, which arrives this Friday, has become almost as much about culture as politics. The list of performers who declined an invitation to perform at official…
"Time of Women," a play in the Under the Radar festival based on the true story of three women journalists and activists imprisoned by the Belarusian dictatorship for protesting the fraudule…
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." " Martin Luther King Jr. Below is a list of Anti-Inauguration activities R…
Below are some of the photographs by Martha Swope, who died Thursday at age 88. Â In a professional career that officially spanned from 1957 to 1994, she focused on ballet and Broadway. H…
"Latin Standards," which is Marga Gomez's 12th solo show — and, she tells us, her "final farewell concert" — is a hilarious memoir, part of this year's Under The Radar festival. …
I once asked Luciano Pavarotti what "opera" means, a question that made him momentarily look lost. Opera in Italian literally means "work," he replied, but you don't need to define it. Farme…
In the first public performance of the four surviving musicals commissioned by the U.S. Army during World War II to boost morale among the troops, "Blueprint Specials" could not be more deft…
“Theater Nerds Everywhere”: Among the winners of Golden Globes Sunday night were a movie based on a play; a musical; and a stage full of theater people. Viola Davis won a Golden …
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
About halfway through The Present, an adaptation of Chekhov's first play, Cate Blanchett, as a Russian general's widow celebrating her 40th birthday, shoots off a shotgun, dances atop a tabl…
Each year, when snow begins to fall, New Yorkers ask one question — how bad will it get? — and New York theatergoers ask three more: Will the shows be canceled? Will shows offer …
In this opening show at this year's Under the Radar festival, a Chicago-based theater company with the completely apt name of Manual Cinema allows the audience at the Public Theater to wa…
