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Thursday, January 16, 2014

Machinal Review: Is this what feminism looked like in 1928? by Jonathan Mandell

Machinal, now opened in a stunning production at the American Airlines Theater, is the first Broadway revival of Sophie Treadwell’s haunting 1928 play, inspired by the murder trial of …

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2014 Oscar Nominations by Jonathan Mandell

Best Picture American Hustle Captain Phillips Dallas Buyers Club Gravity Her Nebraska Philomena 12 Years a Slave The Wolf of Wall Street Best Director David O. Russell – American Hustl…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:22AM
Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Can Edward Albee save Brooklyn’s Interfaith hospital? (Can theater change the world?) by Jonathan Mandell

“We do hope we stay open, because we do save lives,”  said the intake receptionist at Interfaith Hospital said. “We do serve a purpose.” “Promises, nothing more. I am personally s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:50AM
Monday, January 13, 2014

Motown cast sings new song “I Am Here” to Support Valisia LeKae by Jonathan Mandell

Valisia LeKae has left the cast of Motown to focus on her battle against ovarian cancer, but the cast hasn’t left her. Here they sing “I Am Here,”a song written by Julius T…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:00PM

Beautiful Broadway. Exciting Off-Broadway. Off Beat Winter Theater Festivals. Week in New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science”~ Albert Einstein Broadway Sp…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:18AM
Sunday, January 12, 2014

Beautiful: The Carole King Musical Review. Broadway by the Numbers by Jonathan Mandell

The creators of “Beautiful,” the beautifully performed and tuneful new entertainment now opened on Broadway about Carole King’s early songwriting career, faced a challenge — the …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:35PM
Friday, January 10, 2014

Winter Theater Festivals in New York City 2014 by Jonathan Mandell

January is the month for theater festivals in New York – more than at any time other than the summer - and the stars are out this year in them: Muhammed Ali and Mike Tyson, Star Tr…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:37AM
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Off-Broadway Spring 2014 Guide by Jonathan Mandell

Off Broadway this season, David Henry Hwang is telling the story of Bruce Lee in Kung Fu. Frank Langella plays King Lear. Actress  Linda Lavin and playwright Nicky Silver pair up again, a…

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Of Mice and Men Poster with James Franco and Chris O’Dowd by Jonathan Mandell

The first poster for the Broadway revival of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, featuring James Franco and Chris O’Dowd, both making their Broadway debuts. Also in the cast are Le…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:37PM
Monday, January 6, 2014

Poll: Most Exciting Broadway Spring 2014 Show? by Jonathan Mandell

Choose the show that you are most looking forward to. The list below is for shows that have opening dates on Broadway in the Spring 2014 as of this writing, and they are listed chronological…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:40AM
Sunday, January 5, 2014

Broadway in 2014. 2013 Byes. Spider-Man Flies. Backstage Lies. The Week in New York Theater. by Jonathan Mandell

Five shows have already closed on Broadway in January, but three others are opening this month, the beginning of what looks to be an exciting season. The Week in New York Theater Monday, Dec…

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Saturday, January 4, 2014

Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Ends Its Broadway Run Today by Jonathan Mandell

Click on any photograph to see it enlarged Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark ends its Broadway run at the Foxwoods Theater today, after more than three years and 1,200 performances. It has gene…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:30AM
Friday, January 3, 2014

Bullets Over Broadway: First Look at Zach Braff, Marin Mazzie et al in Woody Allen musical by Jonathan Mandell

Zach Braff, making his Broadway debut, leads the cast of the musical theater adaptation of Woody Allen’s movie “Bullets Over Broadway,” about a playwright who gets in bed w…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:33PM
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Broadway and the Blizzard of 2014 by Jonathan Mandell

The two questions theatergoers want answered whether a big snowstorm threatens are: Will the shows be canceled? Will there be a snow day discount? The winter storm named Hercules, according …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 06:49PM

Broadway Spring 2014 Season Preview Guide by Jonathan Mandell

“Theater is not so much a profession as a disease, and my first look at Broadway was the beginning of a lifelong infection,” Moss Hart wrote in his memoir Act One, which has been …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 09:57AM
Wednesday, January 1, 2014

‘Leave No New Yorker Behind’: Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Inauguration Speech by Jonathan Mandell

…We are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love -Mayor Bill de Blasio Full text: Thank you, President Clinton, for your kind…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 07:26PM

Ring in the New…and Keep the Old. What’s It All About? by Jonathan Mandell

 In “What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined” at the New York Theatre Workshop through February 2, Kyle Riabko, who is 26 , leads a half dozen other good-looking singer-musicians in…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:41PM
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Magical Moments on Stage in 2013 by Jonathan Mandell

Sometimes the most magical moments in a work of theater are the ones that are unplanned — the audience suddenly singing along with Cicely Tyson as her character hums a spiritual in The…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:44AM
Monday, December 30, 2013

New York Theater December 2013 Quiz by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to theater news this month and this year? Answer these 10 questions to find out. As usual, the information comes from NewYorkTheater.me, especially my Week…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 04:34PM
Sunday, December 29, 2013

New York Theater in 2013. August: Osage County Brawls. Carly Rae Jepson on Broadway. Week in New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

New York theater critics have completed their lists of top 10 theater of 2013. The most picked: Twelfth Night, The Glass Menagerie, Here Lies Love, in that order. Hundreds voted in the poll …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 05:04PM
Saturday, December 28, 2013

New Year’s Eve in New York 2014 Last Minute Plans by Jonathan Mandell

A list of shows, parties, concerts, intimate dinners, cruises and outdoor events you can still do on New Year’s Eve 2014 in New York City. More than a billion people watch the ball dro…

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Thursday, December 26, 2013

Top 10 Stories in 2013 on NewYorkTheater.Me by Jonathan Mandell

2013 was, if nothing else, a year of lists. I’ve already put together a list of the most noteworthy (and weirdest) theater stories of 2013. Here is a list of the ten most-read articles…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:35PM
Wednesday, December 25, 2013

August Osage County: Three ways the Meryl Streep/Julia Roberts film doesn’t measure up to the play. by Jonathan Mandell

Why does the first film starring both Meryl Streep AND Julia Roberts, based on a play that won both five Tony Awards AND the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, wind up disappointing? There are a coup…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 03:24PM
Tuesday, December 24, 2013

Season of Shakespeare by Jonathan Mandell

There were more productions of Shakespeare on Broadway in 2013 than at any time since 1958. But it wasn’t just on Broadway that the Bard was big this year. That is I why, for the new m…

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Monday, December 23, 2013

Broadway Show Schedule Christmas Week 2013 by Jonathan Mandell

Almost all of the 32 Broadway shows currently playing are offering Monday night performances on Christmas week, as well as matinees on the Thursday after Christmas Day. Some are offering a s…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 01:27PM

Broadway’s 15 Longest-Running Shows and Biggest Hits by Jonathan Mandell

Here are 15 of the longest-running and most popular shows on Broadway, listed alphabetically, with brief descriptions that include my take, and links where available to my initial reviews. T…

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:21PM
Sunday, December 22, 2013

Best and Worst of 2013. Week in New York Theater. by Jonathan Mandell

The week in theater was one of unusual extremes, with tragic news coming from London one day – the collapse of a theater – followed by news the very next day that delighted Harry Potter …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 12:56PM
Saturday, December 21, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013

Grudge Match: DeNiro vs. Stallone. Raging Bull vs. Rocky. Art vs. Cash by Jonathan Mandell

With Sylvester Stallone set to make his Broadway debut as book writer and producer of Rocky the musical, I was drawn to see Grudge Match, a new movie opening Christmas Day starring Stallone …

SOURCE: New York Theater at 08:17PM
Thursday, December 19, 2013

Drunk on Shakespeare – Three Day Hangover Company Takes the Bard to Bars by Jonathan Mandell, The Three Day Hangover Founders: David Hudson, Lori Wolter Hudson and Beth Gardiner

Lori Wolter Hudson remembers having a nervous breakdown in middle school in Indiana when her teacher assigned her to recite … Read More →

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