5,915 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Eugene O'Neill wrote "Abortion" exactly a century ago, shortly after he had decided to become a playwright. Director Heather Lanza and producer Taryn A Wisky have chosen to "adapt" O'Neill's…
Death was an unfortunate theme this week, with the passing of two performers , Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall, as comfortable on stage as on screen. We are midway through the 18th annua…
"Poor Behavior," Theresa Rebeck's comedy at Primary Stages, revolves around a basic question: "What is goodness?" The play begins in the middle of a debate on the subject by two characters w…
In the first-ever revival of "I'll Say She Is," the Marx Brothers' first-ever Broadway musical, Harpo honks once again; Chico puns, Zeppo courts; and Groucho, cigar in hand, says things like…
"Sex With Strangers," a comedy about a coupling with complications, stars two performers " Anna Gunn, Bryan Cranston's wife Skyler in "Breaking Bad," and Billy Magnussen, the boy-toy Spike i…
Mamma Mia opened on Broadway in 2001, just a few months after the first Broadway in Bryant Park, a weekly summer series of free lunch-time concerts featuring current Broadway casts. Cast mem…
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Cast members from the new revival of the musical “On The Town” presented three songs in the last Broadway in Bryant Park lunch-time concert of this summer. Tony Yazbeck and two u…
It is easy to feel bewildered by a title that sounds as if it is translated from the Icelandic. But as it turns out, the dialogue and the lyrics sound that way as well. "Revolution in the El…
Actress Lauren Bacall has died at age 89. Best known as a sultry siren of the silver screen, having made more than 40 films,  Bacall was also a six-time Broadway veteran, winning Tony …
Robin Williams is reported to have died today at age 63. He was such a strong performer that his brilliance shines through even when he was just voicing a cartoon character, as in this scene…
A hundred years ago, our tour guide was saying, New Yorkers were such idiots that they stopped throwing away their garbage, and the city disappeared under a pile of rubbish, mostly coffee cu…
Making art, and sport, out of Taylor Swift's love life is far from original; the popular singer-songwriter has done so herself many times; it's easy to argue that her career is largely built…
As the Fringe begins, the exciting announcements about the Main Stem tumbled out all in two days (See August 6 and 7 below) The Week in New York Theater 4 Piece of My Heart:Â the Be…
In “Phoenix,” a slight and slightly dark romantic comedy with several twists that theoretically should make it feel like a more substantial play, Julia Stiles portrays Sue, an an…
The 18th annual New York International Fringe Festival runs Friday, August 8th through Sunday, August 24th, 2014, with some 75,000 theatergoers expected for more than 200 shows. Here is a gl…
In the first King Lear seen at Shakespeare in the Park since 1973, John Lithgow plays the king, his two  ungrateful daughters are Annette Bening  making her Central Park debut and Jess…
Many stars made themselves known this week – for shows we’ll be seeing after summer is over. Â One Broadway revival alone featured a rotating cast of nine little-seen celebriti…
Walter was shot by a cop ten years ago, and has lived on booze and pie and regret ever since – but it’s more complicated than that. For one thing, Walter was himself a cop. And h…
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It isn’t easy being 12 years old and a demigod with dyslexia. Percy Jackson may be the son of Poseidon, but that hasn’t stopped him from getting expelled from school after school…
“Sex With Strangers,” Â Anna Gunn, who played Bryan Cranston’s wife in “Breaking Bad,” couples with Billy Magnussen, who portrayed sexy, half-naked Spike in V…
The film version of the Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine musical, “Into the Woods,” is set to arrive in movie theaters on December 25th. Meanwhile, Disney has released the follo…
When “An American in Paris” opens at the Palace Theater on Broadway in April, it won’t look exactly like these two photographs, which were taken in Paris, where the musical…
John Leguizamo is presenting his solo show Ghetto Klown tonight free at  Rumsey Playfield in Central Park starting at 8 p.m. (Get there early.) This is the same show he performed on Br…
