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Thursday, July 23, 2020

Can Theater Change Climate Change? Watch Facing the Rising Tide Theater Festival by Jonathan Mandell

Below are videos of the five plays of the Facing the Rising Tide theater festival, organized by the New Group Theater with the Natural Resources Defense Council. In each video, a discussion …

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Broadway from Booth to Bernhardt to Brando to Beckett: Photographs from the Museum of the City of New York by Jonathan Mandell

The photographs of Edwin Booth as Iago in "Othello" in 1871, Paul Robeson in the title role of the same play 72 years later and Dianne Wiest as Desdemona in a production 40 years after that,…

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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Theater Blog Roundup: Yes, Hamilton, but also Summer Theater Books, Disability Rights Month, Albee on Stage and Screen by Jonathan Mandell

Two of the theater bloggers below wrote about Hamilton this month, but not in a way you might expect. There is a summer theater book reading list, a guide connected to Disability Rights Mont…

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Monday, July 20, 2020

NYC's Summer Theater Festivals Reimagined. NYC "reopens" by Jonathan Mandell

#Stageworthy News. Every year for the past decade, I've written a preview guide to the dozen or so annual summer theater festivals in New York. Most have been canceled this year, at least on…

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Sunday, July 19, 2020

Review: Amadeus. Mozart's rival is Salieri; the play's rival is the movie by Jonathan Mandell

Historically, Amadeus is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production ofテつPeter Shaffer's 1979 play " a recording of which is being streamed onlin…

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Amadeus at National Theatre: Review and Pics by Jonathan Mandell

Watch Amadeus below or at National Theatre. Historically, "Amadeus" is baloney. Theatrically, it's a feast. Musically, the National Theatre's 2016 production of Peter Shaffer's 1979 play " a…

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Watch Sing Gently by a virtual choir of 17,572 singers! by Jonathan Mandell

A friend passed along this video of 17,572 singers from 129 countries performing Eric Whitacre's "Sing Gently," and included a poem by Bertolt Brecht In the dark times Will there also be sin…

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Saturday, July 18, 2020

6 to See This Weekend July 18-19: Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Good As New, Homebound, Copper Children, Amadeus, Line by Jonathan Mandell

An 2020 Obie winning play about conservatives who hurt too; テつJulianne Moore as a mother whose daughter complains about her plastic surgery; a starry anthology on the theme of "promise." テ…

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We Are Freestyle Love Supreme on Hulu: Lin-Manuel Miranda et al before Hamilton by Jonathan Mandell

So there is Lin-Manuel Miranda, ten years before "Hamilton," three years before even "In The Heights," galloping across the street to join his fellow members of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip…

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Friday, July 17, 2020

Good As New Review: Julianne Moore and Kaitlyn Dever in MCC's latest play that works online by Jonathan Mandell

テつ In "Good As New," a funny and pointed 25-minute play that MCC streamed live online, Julianne Moore as Jan is arguing with her daughter Maggie (Kaitlyn Dever) on Maggie's 16th birthday, …

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Thursday, July 16, 2020

Watch Broadway Barks 2020 Online by Jonathan Mandell

Watch the 22nd annual Broadway Barks, renamed Broadway Barks across America because this year for the first time it's online, with co-founder and host Bernadette Peters, an adorable lineup o…

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Homebound Project 4 Review: Promises with Tommy Dorfman, Cherry Jones, Judith Light, Marquise Vilson窶ヲ by Jonathan Mandell

Tommy Dorfman, in sexy black corset and purple wig, exclaims "I'm a Queen窶ヲI'm hot," does an interpretive dance on the bed, puts on lipstick as if host of a makeup show, plays a tambourine,…

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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Book Review: Broadway in the Box: Television's Lasting Love Affair with the Musical by Jonathan Mandell

Before it even opened on Broadway in 1954, the producers of the musical "Peter Pan" had struck a deal with NBC to present it live on television, after its Broadway run, with its cast intact,…

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Tuesday, July 14, 2020

2020 Obie Awards Winners, celebrating downtown theater virtually by Jonathan Mandell

The list of winners of the 65th annual, and first virtual, Obie Awards, delayed twice, which celebrates Off and Off Off Broadway. Presenters, performers and winners of the 2020 Obie Awards D…

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Monday, July 13, 2020

Four Months of Shutdown: What "theater" now means by Jonathan Mandell

#Stageworthy News. If "Hamilton" on Disney+ テつhaving become the most-viewed streamingテつvideo is not evidence enough of the expanding definition of "theater," I saw nine plays last week (…

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Sunday, July 12, 2020

Review: The Few. Samuel D. Hunter's entertaining play about loneliness by Jonathan Mandell

Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few" elated one moment, defeated the next, then adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " is one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Play-PerView's…

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The Few Review and Pics: Samuel D. Hunter's Play About Loneliness, via Play-PerView by Jonathan Mandell

Watching Gideon Glick's expressive face in The Few"テつ elated one moment, defeated the next, テつthen adoring, angry, hurt, resigned " テつis one key to unlocking the mystery of how this Pl…

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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Mint Theater's Summer Stock Streaming Festival: 3 Women-Centric Plays of Yore by Jonathan Mandell

The Summer Stock Streaming Festival is a free triple feature online through July 19th from The Mint Theater, which has been unearthing forgotten old plays and making them shine for a quarter…

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Theater This Weekend: 5 Plays To Catch Before They Expire + Bernadette, Kelli and Audra by Jonathan Mandell

I've seen the five plays below " The Copper Children, テつThe Mint's Summerstock Streaming Festival, The Deep Blue Sea, Gloria: A Life, and The Line, in order of expiration date " and recomm…

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Friday, July 10, 2020

The Deep Blue Sea Review: Helen McCrory's stunning performance of a woman racked and trapped by love by Jonathan Mandell

On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…

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The Deep Blue Sea Review and Pics: Terence Rattigan's Love Triangle Like a Prism, and a Prison by Jonathan Mandell

On the surface, The Deep Blue Sea might seem a love triangle, but Helen McCrory's performance makes it a prism " multifaceted, disorienting, and brilliant " in the National Theatre's 2016 pr…

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Thursday, July 9, 2020

The Line Review: A devastating look at frontline medical workers by Jonathan Mandell

Watch "The Line" below. Alison Pill as Jennifer, a first-year intern in emergency medicine at a hospital in Brooklyn, explains that she chose her profession after listening to the war storie…

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Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Unveiled Review: 5 Muslim Women Traumatized But Inspired by Jonathan Mandell

Rohina Malikテつwas inspired to write and perform "Unveiled," her one-woman play about five different Muslim women " which is streaming online one more time this eveningテつ at 7 p.m. at Pre…

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12 NYC Arts Groups Get $10,000 Each from CARES Act by Jonathan Mandell

A dozen New York City arts organizations each received $10,000 grants from the New York State Council on the Arts " including five theaters, such as the National Black Theatre and Ma-Yi " as…

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Tuesday, July 7, 2020

The Copper Children Review: ツ"Trial of the Century" child abduction dramatized at Oregon Shakespeare Festival by Jonathan Mandell

Katie is a puppet in more ways than one in "The Copper Children," a play by Karen Zacarias that is based on a horrifying true story. Katie is one of the immigrant toddlers shipped from New Y…

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Monday, July 6, 2020

Review: Les Blancs (The Whites), National Theatre stream of Lorraine Hansberry's last play by Jonathan Mandell

Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is beingテつpresented online through July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the National T…

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#Stageworthy News: RIP Nick Cordero, 41; Carl Reiner, 98. Still High on Hamilton. by Jonathan Mandell

Nick Cordero, a Broadway musical theater actor, died yesterday at the age of 41, after a long and horrible struggle with COVID-19 that was chronicled in painful detail on social media by his…

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Sunday, July 5, 2020

Les Blancs Review. Lorraine Hansberry's final play, about reckoning and resistance in Africa by Jonathan Mandell

Lorraine Hansberry's third and final Broadway play, which is being presented onlineテつテつthrough July 9 in a dark, expressionistic production directed in 2016 by Yael Farber for the Nation…

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Saturday, July 4, 2020

4th of July Poll: Your Favorite American History Theater That's Not Hamilton by Jonathan Mandell

My biannual Fourth of July poll: What is your favorite Broadway musical that takes actual American history as its subject? I've made a couple of changes this year. Since every poll since 201…

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Friday, July 3, 2020

Hamilton on Disney+ Review: The Third Moment That Feels Like a Movement by Jonathan Mandell

テつ "We have to make this moment last," Lin-Manuel Miranda sings near the beginning of "Hamilton," referring to revolutionary fervor but also apparently youthful vigor; then he immediately …

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Thursday, July 2, 2020

And So We Come Forth Review. The Apple Family Once Again on Zoom by Jonathan Mandell

"There now is such a great sense of urgency, but for what? Where will it end?" Richard Apple (Jay O. Sanders) says in this sixth play written and directed by Richard Nelson in the decade-old…

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Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off