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Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Fall for Theater! Stageworthy News by Jonathan Mandell

Over the Labor Day weekend, "Purpose" ended its run, and so did Tshidi Manye, who is retiring as Rashiki. But the Fall season has already begun; today is the last day to see "Pericles" and t…

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Monday, September 1, 2025

September 2025 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a calendar of New York theater opening* in September, including three plays on Broadway, two of them starry revivals: Keanu Reeves making his Broadway debut in "Waiting for Godot" テ…

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The State of the Labor Play on Labor Day 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

Every Labor Day for years, I asked:テつWhere are the American plays aboutテつworkers, workplaces and unions?テつテつWhat began as a rhetorical question became an annual update. Last year, in…

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

A Lenape Creation Story launches the Down to Earth Festival by Jonathan Mandell

Instead of just beginning by acknowledging Manhattan as the homeland of the Lenape, the way most theater companies do these days, the Eagle Project made their whole show about it. A member o…

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Saturday, August 30, 2025

Pericles Review. The Bard in the Cathedral by Jonathan Mandell

Pericles' daughter has been kidnapped by pirates and sold into a brothel, where she convinces the customers to honor her virginity. This may not normally be one of Shakespeare's most memorab…

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Friday, August 29, 2025

End of Summer Theater Quiz 2025 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to New York theater this summer? Take this quiz to find out. Loading窶ヲ

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Destination Undefined Review. Maybe Unhappy Ending by Jonathan Mandell

In the year 2051, a bilingual robot named Bob has disguised himself as a human being (a species not yet extinct) and descended twenty levels underground to the Gold Vault of the Federal Bank…

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Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Theater Blog Roundup: 10 Best Theater of the New Century. 31 Most Promising Theater Artists. by Jonathan Mandell

The end of summer finds some theater bloggers (Ken Davenport , Broadway & Me's Jan Simpson and the staff of Theatrely) coming up with lists, while others (Broadway Journal's Philip Borof…

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Flashout by Jonathan Mandell

What at first seems to be a novel about a 1960s experimental theater troupe turns out to be genre fiction that uses theater as a backdrop for a plot involving murder and menace. テつThis is …

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Monday, August 25, 2025

Cherry Lane Reopening Week: Spike Lee, Jodie Foster, Michael Shannon. Starry 'Night.' Bug, Proof, Kermit coming to Broadway. Stageworthy News. by Jonathan Mandell

The last week of summer is a time to relax " or to get busy figuring out your Fall New York theater season before tickets run out, and how to avoid paying too much for them.テつ(And the lott…

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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Fall 2025 New York Theater Preview: 10 Shows to See* by Jonathan Mandell

Keanu Reeves (his Broadway debut!) in aテつWaiting for Godotテつrevival,テつNeil Patrick Harris, Bobby Cannavale, James Corden in anテつArt revival,テつLea Michele and Aaron Tveit in aテつCH…

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Saturday, August 23, 2025

La MaMa ETC Fall 2025 Preview: 10 Shows by Jonathan Mandell

A dystopian legal drama starring Elizabeth Marvel; avant-garde takes on Dostoevsky, Dante and the Biggest Loser TV show, a puppet ballet, Palestinian folk dancing, a Russia-to-Oklahoma Jewis…

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Friday, August 22, 2025

Edinburgh Festival Fringe Reviews: Xhloe and Natasha's three shows by Jonathan Mandell

Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland have spent the month of August as a pair of aspiring rodeo cowboys faced with a bull suffering an existential crisis; as rapidly-deranging 1950s suburban housew…

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

Twelfth Night at the Delacorte Review by Jonathan Mandell

My take on this starry "Twelfth Night" beneath the stars was much like my reaction to the renovations at the Delacorte, where it is opening tonight. They both occurred in stages. I was thril…

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Well, I'll Let You Go Review by Jonathan Mandell

By the end of this masterfully constructed and impeccably acted drama, we have observed an exceptional study of grief, pieced together a portrait of both a good person and a complicated comm…

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Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Broadway Week 2-for-1 Tickets On Sale Now by Jonathan Mandell

Tickets are on sale now for Broadway Week, which runs from September 8 to 21. The deal: Buy two tickets for the price of one to your choice of 24 Broadway shows, using the code NYCBW400 " or…

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Jeff Ross Take a Banana for the Road Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

After his mother died when he was just 14 years old, as Jeff Ross tells us from the stage of Broadway's Nederlander Theater, "I remember sitting in my room thinking, 'Is this what life is? Y…

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Two Strangers, Cats Broadway Bound. Bubbling Over Edinburgh. Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

"Gypsy" closed last night, "Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride" is opening tonight. Two more shows will close on Broadway by the end of the month, and no more will open until September 16…

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Sunday, August 17, 2025

Sea Glass Review by Jonathan Mandell

"Sea Glass" is billed as a contemporary feminist retelling of Cain and Abel, so I knew how it would end. Oddly, the ending felt tacked on " one of the reasons why Olivia Dennehy-Basile's scr…

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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Lili/Darwin Review by Jonathan Mandell

Although Eddie Redmayne was nominated for an Academy Award for "The Danish Girl," he regretted taking on the role of Lili Elbe,テつテつas heテつテつtold an interviewer several years later, b…

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Jonathan Groff in Just in Time: Listen and Watch by Jonathan Mandell

Below is Atlantic Records' newly released cast album of the Broadway musical "Just in Time," which stars Jonathan Groff as 60s crooner Bobby Darin " and below that two videos of Groff's sing…

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Thursday, August 14, 2025

Mamma Mia Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"Mamma Mia," reopening today on Broadway after a ten-year absence, is much the same confection: same silly plot, same disco-era earworms by the Swedish pop group ABBA, same high-energy chore…

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Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Ava: The Secret Conversations Review by Jonathan Mandell

I started feeling complicit in the exploitation of Ava Gardner by even attending "Ava: The Secret Conversations," a play that Elizabeth McGovern has adapted from a book of the same name by c…

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Zohran Walks New York by Jonathan Mandell

While the real Zohran Mamdani began a "Five Boroughs Against Trump tour" this week,テつテつthe children's book character does the same thing, although not explicitly against Trump. InテつZoh…

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Monday, August 11, 2025

Stars on Stage. #Hamilten, Chorus Line 50. Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

Ariana DeBose to star in Stephen Schwartz musical. Rosie O'Donnell has her say far away. A Chorus Line at 50. Ephraim Sykes at #Hamilten block party Stars are what sell shows in New York, mo…

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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Miles. Miles Davis and the making of Kind of Blue. by Jonathan Mandell

Miles Davis comes back to life through an encounter with current trumpeter Jay Phelps in this play that inventively mixes live music, biography, history, even musicology, to illuminate the s…

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Saturday, August 9, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hot Mess. Earth and her fickle lover Humanity. by Jonathan Mandell

Will "Hot Mess" be the first climate-crisis musical to make it to Broadway " and the second Broadway musical, after "Six," to have originated at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival?テつテつテつThe…

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Friday, August 8, 2025

Edinburgh Fringe Royal Mile Buskers and Flyerers by Jonathan Mandell

The Royal Mile, the wide cobbled road between the Edinburgh Castle and the Holyrood Palace, is lined with Parliament, Cathedrals, pubs, and, every August since the launch of Fringe Street Ev…

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Edinburgh Fringe Review: Down To Chance by Jonathan Mandell

I was ultimately so thrilled and so moved by "Down to Chance" that, right after leaving the show, when I saw two strangers who happened to be holding a flyer for it, I described the play wit…

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Thursday, August 7, 2025

Roテ遺┐ie O'Donnell Common Knowledge Review by Jonathan Mandell

Rosie O'Donnell does eventually talk about her longtime feud with "Mango Mussolini"; she also makes a brief and self-effacing reference to her film career; she is of course often laugh-out-l…

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Watch 11 Edinburgh Fringe shows at #TheSpaceUk by Jonathan Mandell

The 20 venues operated by TheSpaceUK are presenting 479 shows at this month's Edinburgh Fringe Festival " as Xhloe and Natasha put it, "comedy, music, theater, musicals or some terrifying fr…

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