5,915 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
It is Patrick Stewart’s skills as a performer - his life in the theater — that offer some of the major pleasures in the Broadway version of this slight, sweet, slow, sentimental …
If it frustrates our expectations, “A Free Man of Color” - ambitious, inventive, daring — is an honorable failure with much to recommend it, even while it is difficult to s…
Why the recent boom in theatre about theatre? Patrick Stewart has portrayed a spaceship captain, a mutant, Scrooge, and Macbeth, but the character he’s performing this season on Broad…
Thanks primarily to the impressive performances of Lauria as the explosive coach and Light as his wife, “Lombardi” is nowhere near as bad as might be assumed by those who cannot …
This modest, somewhat clichéd play with a few Latin songs takes place in a barbershop in Washington Heights and is told almost entirely in Spanish and from a Dominican perspective.
Soldiers during World War II line up to visit a prostitute, and one eventually does, in this intermittently intriguing but underdeveloped exercise.
Excerpts from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s commencement speech at Wesleyan College, where he graduated in 2002, in which he mentions the genesis of In The Heights, and quotes from Hamilton. Th…
Make your pick for 15 of the 24 categories in the 69th annual Tony Awards, honoring Broadway's best. The awards ceremony will take place on June 7 at Radio City Music Hall, and will be broad…
“Tisch graduates, you made it,” actor Robert De Niro said Friday in his NYU Commencement address. “And you’re f—ed.” But, as he makes clear in his 15-minu…
The woman is speaking directly to me, an arm's length away, as if we know each other: "I'm not blaming you for missing anything, I know it's not your fault," she says, looking right into my …
Al Hirschfeld drew the stars of Hollywood and Broadway for more than eight decades. He drew Hollywood mogul David O Selznick in 1922, when Hirschfeld was 19 years old, and Broadway performer…
"Permission," a play about "Christian Domestic Discipline" (i.e. spanking your wife) is written by Robert Askins, who is also the author of "Hand to God," the Tony-nominated play about a Chr…
Ticket giveaway: See On The Town on June 4th, 2015 for free. The revival, which I love, does justice to a show that made history on Broadway — marking the Broadway debuts of Leonard Be…
Hamilton won the best new American play Obie at the 60th annual Obie Award for achievement Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. James Houghton, who’s departing next year as the artist…
When 14-year-old Charlie (Noah Galvin) starts doing odd jobs for the town's scandalous art teacher Anna Trumbull (Kristine Nielsen), in "What I Did Last Summer," she agrees to pay him 25 cen…
“Even though success is a reality, its effects are temporary,” Don Draper tells Dow Chemical in season 5 of Mad Men, the TV series that is ending tonight in its seventh season. I…
What does it mean to be an American? The Civilians, the first-ever theater-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, finished their year-long residency with a flourish by addressing…
Winners of the 81st Annual Drama League Awards, chosen by its members: Distinguished Musical: An American in Paris Distinguished Play: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Disti…
About two hours into "Queen of the Night" — the high-priced combination faux-S&M show, circus and dinner that has been nominated improbably for a 2015 Drama Desk Award as Unique Th…
Jim Parsons returns to Broadway in An Act of God, written by David Javerbaum based on is popular Twitter account @TheTweetOfGod and directed by Joe Mantello, The comedy co-starsÅ
Even New Yorkers who abandon the city for the summer know of the three most celebrated summer theater festivals: Free Shakespeare in the Park, begun by Joseph Papp in 1962 in Central Park…
In what he says may be his last play, South African playwright Athol Fugard explores his characters' fear, humiliation and desperation, as he has in such well-known anti-apartheid works as B…
New musicals by Stew and Michael John LaChiusa (about the daughters of U.S. presidents), new plays by Robert O’Hara and Tarell Alvin McCraney (inspired by the Book of Job), and a mu…
This might as well be called the Week in New York Theater Awards. In chronological order: The New York Drama Critics Circle gave their awards to Hamilton and Between Riverside and Crazy Fred…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time won the Outer Critics Circle Award for best new Broadway play, and in four other categories, including best actor and best director. Hami…
