5,754 stories by "Jonathan Mandell"
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…
 Henry Darger spent his life creating a 15,000-page novel, a 5,000-page autobiography, and more than 350 large watercolor paintings, none of which he ever attempted to publish or exhibit.…
Ten plays and six musicals  are opening on Broadway in March and April, in the final six weeks of the Broadway 2025-2026 season, starting this week and ending April 26, the final date of …
This hyperactive, interactive, competitive show may not wind up running for 34 years at Astor Place Theater like "Blue Man Group," a previous tenant, but "Burnout Paradise" runs every night …
Jonathan Groff, "matinee idol" (Ben Brantley in the NY Times), heartthrob (Deadline) Broadway conqueror (Town&Country), will perform in a play by William Shakespeare for the first time, …
Ro Reddick's play with original music promises a light, knowing comedy about a Black girl and her family in Syracuse, New York in 1987, but swerves into a dark cloak-and-dagger tale of the C…
 Those of us who couldn't get tickets to see the production, and instead bought Wallace Shawn's published play (What We Did Before Our Moth Days, Faber and Faber, 96 pages) are treated t…
Call it "Madame Butterfly" with ADHD.  "Grey Arias," which is running only through tomorrow at the Flea, stars an unlikely duo whose divergent life experiences, talents and idiosyncras…
I was maybe 15 years old when a middle-aged man stopped me on the street and asked me if I was a swinger. I suddenly remembered the encounter while watching the soft porn comedy "The Amazing…
"One of the biggest surprises for me in being on Broadway is that there are a lot of unhappy people there," Tony winner Jonathan Groff writes in a foreword to this book co-written by Lindsay…
Gandhi was famous for walking, both for exercise and for the liberation of India, clocking some 49,000 miles on his protest marches. Aristotle believed that great thinkers are all great walk…
February ended with a bang, and not just overseas. There were some heavy shows Off Broadway. The six I reviewed just this week are full of sickness and sexism, personal betrayals and public …
"Night Side Songs" is in part an original musical that tells the story of the terminal illness of a character named Yasmine Holly (portrayed by Brooke Ishibashi.)Â Â But it's also a "kal…
Bigfoot's mother, Francine Foot, explains how her big, kind, hairy monster came to be: "You have sex with a carnie next to a nuclear power plant, you end up with a giant son." That's the kin…
This elaborate, tuneful puppet musical doesn't just tell the story of the journey of Kim Pham from Vietnamese "hometown girl" riding a water buffalo to young romantic in Saigon to war refuge…
How well were you paying attention to the New York theater news, views and reviews in the month of February? Find out with this ten-question quiz, plus a doozy of a bonus question. Loading…
Below is a day-by-day calendar of selected theater opening* this month in New York, including three starry plays on Broadway: A solo turn by Daniel Radcliffe (opening March 12), a British im…
The four power-suited Chinese-American women who work at the same Wall Street bank meet every third Tuesday for lunch at Golden Unicorn in what they call an affinity group. But it doesn't ta…
"Is the president working to make life more affordable for you and your family?" Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger asked in her 12-minute Democratic response to President Trump's 108-minu…
Early on in Jake Brasch's comedy about an alcoholic helped to sobriety by his grandparents, Josh (Noah Galvin), recovering from his latest full-on bender (blacked out, 11 stitches), is comfo…
Near the beginning of Lauren Yee's dark farce set in Russia after the collapse of Communism,  Evgeny (Adam Chanler-Berat) reunites with his old friend Dmitri (Steven Boyer), reminiscin…
For the first time in a decade, a blizzard canceled all of Broadway. The Broadway League announced the cancelation of all performances Sunday evening "due to anticipated travel impacts from …
It's easy to see how the dynamic physical performer Ethan Slater, Broadway's SpongeBob and Hollywood's Boq, would be drawn to the irresistible true story of the world's most famous mim…
Mae is awkward and messy, and so is the play she is in, a revival that is the second theatrical production at the Cherry Lane Theater under its new owners, the A24 movie studio. Portraye…
