5,898 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Tooting Arts Club's exceptionally entertaining production of Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's glorious murderous musical, began in 2014 in Harrington's, one of London's olde…
Six shows are opening on Broadway in March, more than a dozen Off-Broadway, and plenty Off-Off Broadway as well, with a mix of exciting new work — by John Leguizamo, Lynn Nottage, and …
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
The Penitent, David Mamet's latest play, is about the ethical dilemmas facing a psychiatrist whose patient has gone on a killing spree. At least that's what it seems to be about, but audienc…
It was a theater kind of movie night. (List of winners ) The best picture Oscar winner, Moonlight, was based on the play, Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, by Tarell Alvin McCraney (playwright…
Theater fans can watch the 2017 Oscars just like sports views view the World Series. Three examples: 1. If Lin-Manuel Miranda wins an Oscar tonight for his song “How Far I’ll Go&…
How well were you paying attention to the theater in February? Answer these 13 quiz questions to find out.
"Art isn't easy," Jake Gyllenhaal as George sings in the fourth Broadway production of Stephan Sondheim and James Lapine's "Sunday In the Park with George," inspired by one of the most popul…
With "Everybody," Branden Jacobs-Jenkins adapts "Everyman," the 15th century morality play, for a modern secular New York audience. The idea here is inspired, and the world premiere producti…
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
There is one song by John Kander in Kid Victory that recalls the composer's collaboration with Fred Ebb in both Cabaret and Chicago " "What's the Point?" a jaunty, satiric tap-dance. It's on…
1 Theater artist Anna Deavere Smith received the George Polk Career Award, one of the top awards in journalism. "This was not a traditional choice for us, because she doesn't fit neatly in t…
Below is a photo essay of a century’s worth of stage depictions of American presidents. One thing seems certain about the most uncertain presidency in U.S. history — Donald Tr…
In honor of Presidents Day, I resurrect my review of “Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson,” which opened on Broadway on October 13, 2010 and closed three months later, on January 2, 20…
There was thunderous applause the night I saw "Sunset Boulevard" for Hillary Clinton as she took her seat right before the musical began. It would be snarky to observe it was the greatest ov…
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
"The theatre is gone, but there are new things now," says Matthew Broderick in Wallace Shawn's chilling comedy, which imagines a dystopian but familiar society where former theatre people ha…
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
There are three great reasons to see the New York stage debut of Man From Nebraska, without even knowing what it's about: Its author Tracy Letts (August: Osage County), its director David Cr…
Below are brief videotaped interviews with Barbara Barrie, Gideon Glick, Rebecca Naomi Jones, and Lindsay Mendez — four of the cast members of “Significant Other,” a play b…
In honor of Valentine’s Day, here are 1. 25 photographs of kisses on stage over the past century, and 2. videos of five of Broadway’s most romantic love songs, Click on any photo…
Theater goes back thousands of years — driven home by newly available theater-related images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art — and overpriced Broadway ticket prices won…
In "Beardo," we are back in Russia with Dave Malloy, the composer of "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812." Instead of a Broadway theater, the Pipeline Theater Company's new producti…
The Encores! production of "Big River" is a pleasant enough confection but with a bitter aftertaste. To understand why, it helps to know that, when he was 11 years old, Samuel Clemens discov…
Below are theater-related images from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Among them, a statuette of an actor from Attica, Greece 2,500 years old. Theater masks from first cent…
