5,762 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
"You'll Be Back" from "Hamilton" with Yiddish lyrics!? That's one of the songs in the 90-minute concert below sung by four cantors and nine Broadway veterans, including Julie Benko, Arielle …
No, theatergoers do not have the Constitutional right to shout "Fire" in a crowded theater. But theater artists can still present queer characters on stage without losing their government gr…
"Weather Girl," a solo play about the California climate apocalypse, was a hit at last year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe that Netflix is said to be developing into a series. "Fleabag," "Ba…
"Saturday Church," an amped-up Off-Broadway musical adaptation of a 2017 indie movie of the same name, screams Broadway-level ambition; the screaming is sometimes literal.  The movie w…
"Come from Away" is the most-produced work of theater in the United States this season, according to American Theatre Magazine " the first time the magazine's annual list has included the 20…
Holly Doubet was vacationing in Hawaii in 2018 at a time of tensions between the US and North Korea when an emergency alert warned everybody in the state of an incoming missile attack. "Seek…
"Galas," a play with music that tells the story of soprano Maria Callas, is surprisingly straightforward if not entirely straight.  The current revival is a fun and affordable night ou…
The verdict on the Broadway revival of "Art" starring Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannvale and James Corden as three friends who argue about art ranges from "clever and engaging" to "boring b…
"And I am telling you I'm not going…" That's the best-known lyric from "Dreamgirls," which will return to Broadway in the fall of 2026, but it's being sung right now Off-Broadway in a funn…
Sometimes it's better to live with lies; the truth can be too destructive. That's the message I came away with from "The Wild Duck," which makes it hard for me to understand how the Theater …
"Can you be Black and not perform?" Eisa Davis asks, then sings "No," while playing her keyboard. This is the central question, but not the only answer, in "The Essentialisn't." There's also…
"Wicked" endures on stage. I saw it on Broadway this week, and I enjoyed it anew .Yes, it is now inescapably viewed through the lens of the 2024 movie version. But a movie has always hovered…
 "Color Theories" is funny and weird and sometimes confusing. It reminded me at various times of Pee Wee Herman (childlike tone, cartoonish set, puppetry), George Carlin (observational an…
In the two decades since Tarell Alvin McCraney was heralded as a promising new voice for his breakout play "The Brothers Size," which was first produced in 2007 when he was still a student a…
Fashion designer Alexander McQueen seems readymade for a theatrical portrait, and "House of McQueen" is pieced together with bespoke extravagance. It is housed in a new Off-Broadway theater …
In my Broadway Poll about the Fall show theatergoers are most looking forward to, I added a second question: What's the biggest reason for your choice? Forty percent answered: "The cast" …
Jordan E. Cooper, Tony-nominated performer and playwright of "Ain't No Mo'" whose new play "Oh Happy Day!" is opening at the Public Theater on October 15,  delivered a keynote address …
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a sponge, a ham, a charmer, a dynamo, an eager collaborator, a sensitive sobber, and an extraordinarily talented, acclaimed and busy artist who is clear-eyed about his …
Writer/director Nicholas Colia's delightful first-time feature film about an obsessive (queer) theater kid, which won several big awards at the Tribeca Festival last year, has now opened …
When a stranger asks you "so, what do you do?" they're not asking for your hobbies or habits, your daily activities or nightly dreams. They're asking what your job is. Jenn Kidwell puts …
Which of the thirteen shows scheduled to open on Broadway from September to December 2025 are you most looking forward to? What's the biggest reason for your choice? Answer these two poll qu…
Over the Labor Day weekend, "Purpose" ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see "Pericles" and t…
Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in "Waiting for Godot" Ã…
Every Labor Day for years, I asked: Where are the American plays about workers, workplaces and unions?  What began as a rhetorical question became an annual update. Last year, in…
Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member o…
