5,917 stories by "JONATHAN MANDELL"
Why was I cringing and rolling my eyes? What could possibly be objectionable about a show that is really just a concert of Beatles songs — some of the most pleasing melodies composed i…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "Unbroken Circle"  a new play by James Wesley, described as a “comedic Southern gothic tale” that explores a Texan family’s…
Several new shows for Broadway were announced this past week, and new roles on Broadway for Jeff Goldblum, Debra Messing, Fantasia Barrino, Anne-Marie Duff, Idina Menzel. There was even news…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "The Two-Character Play" by Tennessee Williams, starring Amanda Plummer (Agnes of God, The Hunger Games) and Brad Dourif (Lord of the Rings Trilogy…
“Life is a mercurial thing; it goes up, it goes down,” the Tony winning performer Chuck Cooper told me in an impromptu sidewalk  interview this past week — a week that a…
Orlando Bloom, making his Broadway debut, and Condola Rashad, who just left the Broadway revival of “The Trip to Bountiful,” will star in the 36th Broadway production of William …
The tango began in the brutal brothels of Argentina, was transformed in the elegant ballrooms of Europe, and seems to have changed once again, into a Las Vegas-like act suitable for televisi…
Cory Monteith was found dead in a hotel room in Vancouver, Canada yesterday afternoon. He was 31. An unpretentious star, he put as his bio on his Twitter feed: “tall, awkward, canadian…
As one by one the stars of Broadway paired up with pets in need of homes and climbed onto the makeshift stage of Shubert Alley to make a pitch, more than one of the performers in effect expl…
Erik Altemus, who normally plays Lewis and is an understudy for Pippin in the Broadway production of the Stephen Schwartz musical, sang “Corner of the Sky” from Pippin at the Bro…
Chuck Cooper began his professional acting career 30 years ago, debuting on Broadway in 1983, winning a Tony for his portrayal of the character Memphis in "The Life." He will soon re…
The cast of the Off-Broadway musical, “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812″ sang three at the Broadway in Bryant Park lunchtime concert: Prologue, Charming, and Sonya Alo…
Ann Harada currently performs as Charlotte, one of Cinderella’s not-so-evil stepsisters in the Broadway debut of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. This is her sixth role on Broa…
Visually ravishing, conceptually inventive, and infused with great talent, "Monkey: Journey To The West, " the theater piece that opens this year's Lincoln Center Festival,  is an intrigu…
Whose life story would you like to see on Broadway? I asked this question for a ticket giveaway contest. Below are the answers the contestants supplied. So now, a poll: Which of these would …
What is the best Hamlet you ever saw? What is the worst Hamlet you ever saw? Answer either of these questions, or both, to enter into a ticket giveaway for a new Off-Broadway production of S…
"Well, well, well, well, well, well, will wonders never cease?" Santino Fontana was singing "She Loves Me," the title song of a musical that changed my life. For the first time in its 68-yea…
“A life in the theater is. a way of life….a passion…a spiritual choice. It's not a rational choice .” –  Sarah Benson ‪of Soho Rep Yes, New York theate…
Ten patriotic songs by some of America’s great composers, from Irving Berlin to John Philip Sousa to Woody Guthrie, performed by Leonard Bernstein, James Cagney, Ray Charles,Ã…
Anthony Rapp, best-known as the performer who originated the role of Mark in "Rent," is starring in a new musical that will give only three performances, for a ticket price no higher than $2…
Ticket Giveaway: Win two tickets to see "Soul Doctor,"  a musical that tells the story of Shlomo Carlebach, the “Rock Star Rabbi” of the 1960′s.  After his esca…
Jerry Mitchell, now a Tony-winning choreographer (most recently for “Kinky Boots”), remembers dancing naked on a drum in “The Indian of the Dawn” number in “Wil…
June was the month of the Tony Awards, but it also marked something of a 1960′s revival on Broadway, and was in general a very weird month for the theater. See how well you were paying…
The week in New York theater seemed full of news about the 1960's. With a musical officially scheduled for Broadway about Janis Joplin and another by Woody Allen, and the cast announced for …
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