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Friday, February 3, 2023

Broadway Poll: Which Grammy Nominee Should Write a Musical? by Jonathan Mandell

Each of the following ten recording artists has been nominated for Album of the Year, the most coveted of the 91 categories in the 65th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held this Sunday. …

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Thursday, February 2, 2023

6 reasons to love the Between Riverside and Crazy Broadway simulcast, and hope for a digital theater future by Jonathan Mandell

When I saw "Between Riverside and Crazy" on stage at Broadway's Hayes Theater in December, I called it a "must-see" production of Stephen Adly Guirgis's 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning pla…

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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

February 2023 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of theater opening* in February 2023 in New York,  including one play on Broadway, starring Nathan Lane, Danny Burstein and Zoe Wanamaker, and much exciting Off-Broadw…

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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Off Broadway Week 2-for-1 Tickets by Jonathan Mandell

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from February 13 through March 5 to 23 Off-Broadway shows, including such fan f…

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Theater Quiz for January 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to New York theater in January? Answer these ten questions to find out. Loading…

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Monday, January 30, 2023

Mayor Adams: Theater is Thriving. Parade, Shucked Complete Casts. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

A year after Eric Adams delivered  his first official speech as mayor in Manhattan's theater district urging New Yorkers to "enjoy a Broadway show," he made his second State o…

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Sunday, January 29, 2023

Heaven and Hunger, at 1st Irish Theater Festival by Jonathan Mandell

A Ukrainian play at an Irish theater festival? It was one of the two plays I attended in the final weekend of the annual 1st Irish Festival, which on the surface seemed as opposite as …

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Saturday, January 28, 2023

Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation by Jonathan Mandell

Vivien Leigh said it tipped her over into madness. It left Ann-Margret "twisted and shaking, confused, agitated, and staring ahead in a daze." For Jessica Lange, "I don't think there is a…

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Friday, January 27, 2023

Theater About the Holocaust, from The Diary of Anne Frank to Leopoldstadt by Jonathan Mandell

On this International Holocaust Remembrance Day " designated by the United Nations every January 27th, because that was the date in 1945 when Soviet soldiers liberated the 6,000 remain…

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Thursday, January 26, 2023

George Santos: 6 Memorable Articles by Jonathan Mandell

Ever since newly-elected New York Congressman George Santos was revealed as a liar, and worse, not a day has gone by without something new. It's embarrassing, of course; much of it is infuri…

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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Without You Review. Anthony Rapp looks back at Rent and grief by Jonathan Mandell

"525,600 minutes 525,000 moments so dear 525,600 minutesHow do you measure… half a lifetime?  That's how long it's been" This is how Anthony Rapp begins  "Without You," h…

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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

2023 Oscar Nominees Who Are Broadway Veterans! NEA chief on changes since the pandemic. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Nine of the 20 Oscar nominees for performance announced this morning are veterans of Broadway. (Full list of nominations) They are: Actor in a Leading RoleAustin Butler (Elvis) made his Broa…

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Oscar Nominations 2023 by Jonathan Mandell

The full list of nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards, which will be held on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Dolby® Theatre at Ovation Hollywood and will be televised live on ABC…

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Monday, January 23, 2023

Small Talk Review. Colin Quinn's 7th solo show by Jonathan Mandell

"Throughout history weather was the only important subject; everything else was small talk," Colin Quinn explains; now weather's the go-to subject for small talk, except for members of polit…

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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Memorial Review. Maya Lin fights for her Vietnam Veteran design amid anti-Asian attitudes. by Jonathan Mandell

Maya Lin was still a college student when her design was selected out of more than 1,400 entries for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., which resulted in criticism, conflict, …

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Saturday, January 21, 2023

Broadway at the Oscars Quiz by Jonathan Mandell

Nominations for the 95th annual Academy Awards will be announced on Tuesday January 24th, so it seems a good time to test your knowledge of the interplay between Broadway and Hollywood, with…

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Friday, January 20, 2023

Theater Blog Roundup: Assessing 2022. Rebuilding. Reminiscing. Retiring? by Jonathan Mandell

Many of the dozen or so theater bloggers below offered end of year assessments for 2022, a less evidently emotional year than the previous two " but that's just on the surface. "This year di…

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Thursday, January 19, 2023

8 Things to Understand About Digital Theater Now, According to Jared Mezzocchi by Jonathan Mandell

Jared Mezzocchi is a pioneer in digital theater, and probably its most quoted evangelist, an Obie winning theater artist who works as a multimedia designer, director, playwright, perfo…

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Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Under the Radar Review: Otto Frank by Jonathan Mandell

An 88-year-old white supremacist who claimed "The Diary of Anne Frank" was a hoax shot and killed a 39-year-old African American security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washi…

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Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Broadway Week Begins. #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Broadway Week 2-for-1 tickets launches today through February 12, a traditional fallow period in New York theater, but one full of hope this year, judging from the announcements this past we…

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Monday, January 16, 2023

Martin Luther King Jr: "I am proud to be maladjusted" by Jonathan Mandell

Today, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day " which has been an official federal holiday since 1986 " many people read or listen once again to his most famous speech, delivered August 28, 1963, …

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Saturday, January 14, 2023

'Reconnecting people to their joy': Brian Stokes Mitchell, Senator Schumer et al at APAP conference by Jonathan Mandell

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President  Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the firs…

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Friday, January 13, 2023

Under the Radar Review: KLII. King Leopold's atrocities revisited. by Jonathan Mandell

In 1905, Mark Twain wrote a caustic satire, "King Leopold's Soliloquy," in which the Belgian king tries to justify the unspeakable atrocities he committed for his personal enrichment duri…

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Thursday, January 12, 2023

Mothermotherland. A Play with Four Ukrainians and a Scene-Stealing Baby by Jonathan Mandell

What was most jaw-dropping about "Mothermotherland," which is being presented for free through January 15 at A.R.T./New York Theatres,  was not that Audrey Rose Dégez breastfed …

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Wednesday, January 11, 2023

Prototype Reviews: Trade and Mary Motorhead by Jonathan Mandell

A middle aged man hires a teenager for sex in a cheap Dublin hotel, but both the older man (Marc Kudisch) and the younger man (Kyle Bielfield) actually want something else.  A woman…

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Tuesday, January 10, 2023

Broadway Week 2-for-1 Tickets. Plus Discounts at Restaurants, Museums, Hotels! by Jonathan Mandell

Tickets are now on sale for Broadway Week, where you can buy two tickets for the price of one for performances from January 17 through February 12 of 22 Broadway shows, from "& Juliet" t…

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Monday, January 9, 2023

Theater in Politics. Broadway Backwards and Forwards. #Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

The longest battle for Speaker of the House since 1859 was filled with drama last week, but also with theater, enough to inspire observations by at least two theater critics " about Hakeem J…

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Sunday, January 8, 2023

Merrily We Roll Along Pre Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"That's the sound of a hit," Jonathan Groff as Franklin Shepard sings about halfway through the current Off-Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim/George Furth musical "Merrily We Ro…

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Under the Radar Review: The Indigo Room by Jonathan Mandell

I had a whale of a time for much of "The Indigo Room," which is part of this year's Under the Radar theater festival, and can certainly count as theater. But it is more than that " maybe too…

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Saturday, January 7, 2023

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries' ABC of American Values: "The Constitution over the cult …Freedom over fascism… Maturity over Mar-a-Lago…" by Jonathan Mandell

Near the end of his inspiring 15-minute address to the 118th Congress before the formal handing-over of the gavel to the newly elected Speaker of the House early Saturday morning, Minority L…

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Friday, January 6, 2023

Under the Radar Review: Are we not drawn onward to new erA by Jonathan Mandell

The title is a palindrome: it reads the same backwards and forwards. The show too goes backward and forward " or actually, forward and then backward. The first entry in the annual Unde…

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