5,752 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including thirteen shows on Broadway, six musicals and seven plays, bursting with stars, many making their…
Mexodus and Prince Faggot received the most nominations for the 41st annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway. Winners will be presented at the annual ceremo…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of March? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a bonus question. Loading…
Why have Warner Bros. with 42 other producers financed a new Broadway play about a botched, two-bit bank robbery in Brooklyn half a century ago?  The answer is obvious to me: It's the …
The high ticket prices on Broadway are an annual and perennial outrage, but maybe more galling as the season wraps up. The hottest ticket on Broadway last week sold for $975. The…
Three sailors are on 24-hour shore leave in New York City before being shipped off to war. No, this is not a simple spoof of the 1944 musical "On The Town." The initial premise is a fe…
Jaime Cruz, one of the eight cast members with Down syndrome who star in this "Hamlet,"Â Â mimics the posture of Laurence Olivier behind him, who leans against a rock reciting the "To Be…
More than 3,000 "No Kings" peaceful protests are scheduled today across the United States, including more than two dozen in New York City " most prominently at 7th Avenue and Central Park So…
"Our challenge as theater makers," Willem Dafoe says in the official 2026 World Theatre Day message in the video below, "is to avoid the corruption of theater solely as a commercial enterpri…
Digital theater was not just something that happened during the explosion of online innovation during the COVID-19 lockdown. To Magda Romanska, it's a human right " a means of providing acce…
As the 2025-2026 New York theater season enters its final laps, the theater award season is revving up. Below is a calendar of dates from April to June in 2026 when nominations and awards ar…
Below is a brief description of all of the 75 (!) shows in the New York City Fringe Festival, which this year is being presented from April 1 to April 19 in five venues. Â Unlike Broadway,…
I can see three main reasons why some theatergoers might want to sympathize with the antisemite at the center of the incendiary true incident being dramatized in  "Giant." The man, for on…
As the Broadway season begins its five final (and busiest) weeks, it's bracing to learn that live events are booming nationally " all except theater.  People "are spending real money t…
Stephen Sondheim, who would have turned 96 years old today, was known as a genius to his schoolmates and an alcoholic to his collaborators; he was charming but a slob; he loved Lee Remick bu…
Celia Keenan-Bolger is the "I" in the title of Anna Ziegler's provocative, contemporary retelling of the Greek tragedy, in which Antigone ( Susannah Perkins) has an abortion, in defiance…
By the time Jasmine Amy Rogers  and Adrienne Warren trade affectionate insults in a lively, witty musical number,  each of some dozen other spectacular performers have already in…
Anthony Rapp sits in a chair for ninety minutes as a miserable middle-aged gay man telling a story that goes from panic to frustration to betrayal, and yet "Touch" is among the most satisfyi…
"American Classic," featuring a starry cast of Tony winners led by Kevin Kline, is currently thrilling those of us who loved "Slings & Arrows," the greatest-ever TV series about the thea…
Alexandrine von Taxis, one of the main characters in "Plan C," is an actual historical figure whose portrait should probably be hanging in both the Smithsonian National Postal Museum and the…
Theater lovers can point to Oscar wins for Broadway veterans Sean Penn and Amy Madigan, and the moving tributes by Broadway veterans to Broadway veterans: Billy Crystal on Rob Reiner, Rachel…
One Battle After Another won the Oscar for best picture and five other awards, including best director. "Sinners" won four awards including Michael B. Jordan for best actor. Jessie Buckley w…
Which of the ten Oscar nominees for best film this year would work best (and worst) adapted for the Broadway stage?   It's a year of at least a few clear answers, given that one of …
Beneath its surface as a comedy about two Deaf roommates' escalating argument about who should take out the garbage, "Trash" offers entrée for hearing theatergoers into the world of the Dea…
Before Daniel Radcliffe gets on stage to start this funny and moving play that's built around his character compiling a list of "everything worth living for," he rushes around the Hudson The…
