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Saturday, December 24, 2022

In Memoriam: Theater Community Members Who Died in 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

Below are some of the people from the theater community who died in 2022, listed alphabetically. Click on any photograph (and click the ⌽ button) to read the caption, most of which link…

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Thursday, December 22, 2022

Memorable Moments on Stage in 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

It was the kind of year when the audience gave a standing ovation for a regular line in the script of a play one particular night, because of a Supreme Court decision announced during that d…

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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Top 10 Lists of Top 10 Theater in 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

"A Strange Loop,' is the most acclaimed show among theater critics whose lists of top 10 New York theater for 2022 are featured below. Following close behind is "Oratorio for Living Thing…

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Tuesday, December 20, 2022

The Collaboration Broadway Review: Warhol and Basquiat, via Paul Bettany and Jeremy Pope by Jonathan Mandell

"We're very different," Andy Warhol (Paul Bettany) says to Jean-Michel Basquiat (Jeremy Pope) when they first meet to collaborate on making a painting. "You're all spontaneous and wild, and …

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Monday, December 19, 2022

Between Riverside and Crazy Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

It's hard not to fall instantly in love with Pops at the beginning of this must-see Broadway production of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winning play by Stephen Adly Guirgis, the playwright laurea…

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Broadway Spring Season shapes up, ends up at Lin-Manuel's Spiritual Palace. #Stageworthy News, Holiday Edition. by Jonathan Mandell

A first for the Tony Awards: United Palace, a grand old theater in Washington Heights, will be the site of the 76th annual awards ceremony, which is now scheduled to take place on June 11…

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Sunday, December 18, 2022

Broadway Holiday Schedule 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the Broadway schedule for the last two weeks of 2022 " Monday, Dec. 19 up to New Year's Day 2023 " with links to my reviews of the shows (which contain links to their websites to ge…

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Saturday, December 17, 2022

Spring 2023 Broadway Preview Guide by Jonathan Mandell

Nathan Lane, Jessica Chastain, Josh Groban, Laura Linney and Phillipa Soo are all returning to Broadway in what promises to be the first normal Spring season in four years (or at least we're…

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Friday, December 16, 2022

12 Good Shows You Can Still See on Broadway and Off-Broadway (if you hurry) by Jonathan Mandell

"Ain't No' Mo" playwright Jordan E. Cooper announced on stage last night that thanks to his campaign his play is not closing this Sunday as had been announced; it's been extended to next Fri…

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Thursday, December 15, 2022

Watch Top 10 Broadway Videos of 2022: MJ, Funny Girl, KPOP, Neil Diamond himself by Jonathan Mandell

'MJ' musical numbers from opening night, Neil Diamond himself singing opening night at "A Beautiful Noise," two different numbers from "Funny Girl," the debate over Jewish assimilation in "L…

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

15 Favorite New York Stage Performances in 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

Victoria Clark gave one of my favorite performances last year, for "Kimberly Akimbo" Off-Broadway, and she appears again in this latest of my annual lists of favorite theatrical performan…

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Cara De Silva In Memoriam by Jonathan Mandell

Cara De Silva, journalist, author, scholar, lecturer and friend, died last week " which I just found out on Facebook. This is probably fitting, since she was an avid conversationalist on tha…

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Monday, December 12, 2022

Broadway Opening: Some Like It Hot, Ohio State Murders. Closing: KPOP, Ain't No Mo…more. #Stageworthy News of the Week. by Jonathan Mandell

The holiday theater season hit some snags this week, with two Broadway shows set to close just weeks after opening, Stomp, an Off-Broadway staple closing after twenty-nine years, and comedy …

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Sunday, December 11, 2022

Some Like It Hot Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"Some Like It Hot" is glitzy, excessive, frenetic and funny,  with hyperactive choreography, a game, talented cast, and a jazzy score with multiple 11 o'clock numbers. Much of th…

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Saturday, December 10, 2022

KPOP and Ain't No Mo' announce abrupt closing, followed by campaigns to save them. by Jonathan Mandell

Two recently opened Broadway shows abruptly announced their closing this week. Producers of "KPOP" announced on Tuesday that the musical composed by Helen Park would close this Sunday Decemb…

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

Ohio State Murders Review. Adrienne Kennedy's Broadway Debut at Age 91. by Jonathan Mandell

At the curtain call, Audra McDonald and the rest of the cast pointed to a huge photograph on stage of Adrienne Kennedy, the playwright of "Ohio State Murders," who is making her Broadway deb…

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Senator Raphael Warnock stirring victory speech, video and transcript. "Each of us has value…we ought to have a voice" by Jonathan Mandell

I am Georgia. I am an example and an iteration of its history. Of its pain, and its promise, and the brutality and the possibility. But because this is America, because we always have a path…

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Stomp to Close After 29 Years. Watch three decades of rhythm by Jonathan Mandell

After 29 years and 11,472 Performances, "Stomp" will play its final performance on January 8, 2023. The show, ensconced at the Orpheum Theater in the East Village since Feb. 27, 1994, create…

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Tuesday, December 6, 2022

Holiday Shows in New York 2022: From 80 Rockettes, 15 Nutcrackers and 6 Christmas Carols to a Wolf, a Flute and a Lady Bunny by Jonathan Mandell

This holiday season in New York means more than a dozen Nutcracker Suites, at least a half A Christmas Carols, including one on Broadway, and other annual traditions in the city that range f…

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Monday, December 5, 2022

Britney on Broadway. Sondheim's teenage musical rediscovered. Reviews: A Beautiful Noise, Ain't No Mo' #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Happy days are not quite here again, but news this week softened some recent blows: "The Phantom of the Opera" is still closing, but recent weeks have been the highest-grossing in the show's…

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Sunday, December 4, 2022

A Beautiful Noise The Neil Diamond Musical Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"A Beautiful Noise" is certainly an efficient delivery system for twenty-nine of Neil Diamond's most popular songs " some of them just snippets in medleys, but "Sweet Caroline" twice "…

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Ain't No Mo' Broadway Review. What if Black Americans all got a one-way ticket to Africa. by Jonathan Mandell

"Ain't No Mo'," an over-the-top satire that aims to tickle, shock and draw blood, imagines an America in which all Black people are being flown to Africa. But it's not a direct flight. There…

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Saturday, December 3, 2022

Hollywood Movies Adapted for Broadway: Which Was Better? by Jonathan Mandell

The first Broadway musical made out of a movie was probably the 1942 film "My Sister Eileen" with Rosalind Russell, which became the 1953 Broadway musical 'Wonderful Town." Other vintage exa…

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Friday, December 2, 2022

NYC Theater Quiz Bah Humbug Edition by Jonathan Mandell

There were arguably more challenges than cheers in New York theater over the previous month, as the following ten-question quiz attests. Loading…

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

Erik Jensen Q and A. The Collaborator Beats Death, Makes Broadway Debut by Jonathan Mandell

Erik Jensen is making his Broadway debut the same year he suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm that almost killed him. The two are not unrelated, as he explains in the interview below. I…

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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

December 2022 New York Theater Openings by Jonathan Mandell

Below is a day-by-day calendar of theater opening* in December, a month that features six new Broadway shows, including two by Black playwrights making their Broadway debuts " one at age 27,…

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

#GivingTuesday 2022: A List of NYC Theaters and Theater Charities by Jonathan Mandell

On this eleventh annual #GivingTuesday (created in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation), consider donating to your favorite New York area theaters and theater c…

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Monday, November 28, 2022

Cyber Monday for Theater Lovers 2022. Agatha Christie on Broadway! Lea Michele on Parade! Luna in KPOP! #Stageworthy News of the Week by Jonathan Mandell

Here are some theater-related promotional discounts, many of them for today only: Today Tix: Cybersale "Up to 60 percent off" of Broadway tickets  From Goldstar, Cybersale "up to 60 perce…

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Sunday, November 27, 2022

KPOP on Broadway Review by Jonathan Mandell

"We sing together, we dance together, we look sexy together," says Timmy X. This may be a succinct description of the Korean popular music phenomenon known as K-pop in general, but in any ca…

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Saturday, November 26, 2022

Sondheim Quiz: A Year Later by Jonathan Mandell

Stephen Sondheim died a year ago today at the age of 91. If the musical theater composer and lyricist was revered during his lifetime, attention to his work has only accelerated in the year …

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Friday, November 25, 2022

Top 10 Theater to be Grateful for in 2022 by Jonathan Mandell

My annual list of my favorite New York stage shows, which I'd posted for a decade, morphed in the last two years into an appreciation of the innovative and impassioned attempts to redefine t…

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