5,916 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
The two questions theatergoers want answered whether a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Will there be a snow day discount? The winter storm named Hercules, according …
“Theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection," Moss Hart wrote in his memoir Act One, which has b…
…We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love -Mayor Bill de Blasio Full text: Thank you, President Clinton, for your ki…
 In "What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined" at the New York Theatre Workshop through February 2, Kyle Riabko, who is 26 , leads a half dozen other good-looking singer-musicians in the…
Sometimes the most magical moments in a work of theater are the ones that are unplanned — the audience suddenly singing along with Cicely Tyson as her character hums a spiritual in The…
How well were you paying attention to theater news this month and this year? Answer these 10 questions to find out. As usual, the information comes from NewYorkTheater.me, especially my Week…
New York theater critics have completed their lists of top 10 theater of 2013. The most picked: Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, Here Lies Love, in that order. Hundreds voted in the poll …
A list of shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises and outdoor events you can still do on New Year’s Eve 2014 in New York City. More than a billion people watch the ball dro…
2013 was, if nothing else, a year of lists. I’ve already put together a list of the most noteworthy (and weirdest) theater stories of 2013. Here is a list of the ten most-read articles…
Why does the first film starring both Meryl Streep AND Julia Roberts, based on a play that won both five Tony Awards AND the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wind up disappointing? There are a coup…
There were more productions of Shakespeare on Broadway in 2013 than at any time since 1958. But it wasn’t just on Broadway that the Bard was big this year. That is I why, for the new m…
Almost all of the 32 Broadway shows currently playing are offering Monday night performances on Christmas week, as well as matinees on the Thursday after Christmas Day. Some are offering a s…
Here are 15 of the longest-running and most popular shows on Broadway, listed alphabetically, with brief descriptions that include my take, and links where available to my initial reviews. T…
The week in theater was one of unusual extremes, with tragic news coming from London one day " the collapse of a theater " followed by news the very next day that delighted Harry Potter fans…
With Sylvester Stallone set to make his Broadway debut as book writer and producer of Rocky the musical, I was drawn to see Grudge Match, a new movie opening Christmas Day starring Stallone …
2013 was the year of Shakespeare, and cross-dressing, and people getting naked in tubs on stage. It was a year full of solo performances and celebrity Broadway debuts and shows that sound on…
Brian Dennehy, Nathan Lane and the entire 18-member cast of the Goodman Theatre of Chicago’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, directed by Robert Falls, are…
Even as we mourn the deaths of Peter O’Toole, 81, Â Eleanor Parker, 91, and Joan Fontaine, 96, we celebrate the still theatrically active Estelle Parsons, 86, and Carol Lawrence, 82.…
During the intermission at "Handle With Care," billed as a new romantic comedy starring Carol Lawrence, the original Maria of West Side Story, I pondered some nearly theological questions: I…
The Glass Menagerie and Twelfth Night are on most critic’s top 10 list of the best theater of 2013 so far — but not all (Time doesn’t have either.) I was early with my Top …
How does one become one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century? The answer is not directly forthcoming in "How I Learned What I Learned," the memoir written and performed by August …
Watson was the name of both Sherlock Holmes' fictional assistant and Alexander Graham Bell's real one, as well as the IBM supercomputer (named after IBM founder Thomas J. Watson) that beat t…
10. Kinky Boots StageGrade: B+ This show has become more beloved since yahoos condemned it during Thanksgiving. I always found it entertaining, in a Busby Berkeley sort of way, but it’…
