5,762 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Pericles' daughter has been kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel, where she convinces the customers to honor her virginity. This may not normally be one of Shakespeare's most memorab…
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In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…
The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me's Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal's Philip Borof…
What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. Â This is …
The last week of summer is a time to relax " or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them. (And the lott…
Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in a Waiting for Godot revival, Neil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in an Art revival, Lea Michele and Aaron Tveit in a CH…
A dystopian legal drama starring Elizabeth Marvel; avant-garde takes on Dostoevsky, Dante and the Biggest Loser TV show, a puppet ballet, Palestinian folk dancing, a Russia-to-Oklahoma Jewis…
Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have spent the month of August as a pair of aspiring rodeo cowboys faced with a bull suffering an existential crisis; as rapidly-deranging 1950s suburban housew…
My take on this starry "Twelfth Night" beneath the stars was much like my reaction to the renovations at the Delacorte, where it is opening tonight. They both occurred in stages. I was thril…
By the end of this masterfully constructed and impeccably acted drama, we have observed an exceptional study of grief, pieced together a portrait of both a good person and a complicated comm…
Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Week, which runs from September 8 to 21. The deal: Buy two tickets for the price of one to your choice of 24 Broadway shows, using the code NYCBW400 " or…
After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, "I remember sitting in my room thinking, 'Is this what life is? Y…
"Gypsy" closed last night, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride" is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until September 16…
"Sea Glass" is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on " one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile's scr…
Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl," he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe,  as he  told an interviewer several years later, b…
Below is Atlantic Records' newly released cast album of the Broadway musical "Just in Time," which stars Jonathan Groff as 60s crooner Bobby Darin " and below that two videos of Groff's sing…
"Mamma Mia," reopening today on Broadway after a ten-year absence, is much the same confection: same silly plot, same disco-era earworms by the Swedish pop group ABBA, same high-energy chore…
I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by c…
While the real Zohran Mamdani began a "Five Boroughs Against Trump tour" this week,  the children's book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. In Zoh…
Ariana DeBose to star in Stephen Schwartz musical. Rosie O'Donnell has her say far away. A Chorus Line at 50. Ephraim Sykes at #Hamilten block party Stars are what sell shows in New York, mo…
Miles Davis comes back to life through an encounter with current trumpeter Jay Phelps in this play that inventively mixes live music, biography, history, even musicology, to illuminate the s…
Will "Hot Mess" be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway " and the second Broadway musical, after "Six," to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?   The…
The Royal Mile, the wide cobbled road between the Edinburgh Castle and the Holyrood Palace, is lined with Parliament, Cathedrals, pubs, and, every August since the launch of Fringe Street Ev…
I was ultimately so thrilled and so moved by "Down to Chance" that, right after leaving the show, when I saw two strangers who happened to be holding a flyer for it, I described the play wit…
