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Sunday, February 7, 2016

Then She Fell Review: Alice in An Immersive Wonderland by Jonathan Mandell

Those looking to unlock the secret to the success of "Then She Fell," the Third Rail Projects' immersive take on Lewis Carroll and his writings now entering its fourth year, might start with…

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Saturday, February 6, 2016

The Alving Estate Review: Ibsen Immersed by Jonathan Mandell

The Alving Estate, an intriguing and instructive if ultimately unsatisfying experiment, promises an immersive staging of Ibsen's Ghosts. The two companies that conceived the show, Journey La…

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Sleep No More Review, Photographs, Video by Jonathan Mandell

“Sleep No More” is Punchdrunk Theater's staging of Macbeth, as if retold by Alfred Hitchcock and Isadora Duncan. It has been running since 2011 in a formerly abandoned club in Ch…

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

The Grand Paradise Theater Review: Bushwick's Titillating Tropical Resort by Jonathan Mandell

"The Grand Paradise" can be a fun, hip and sensuous two-hour holiday with a cast of 20, all attractive, some barely clad, in a cleverly designed beach resort from the hedonist 1970s. It can …

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

James Corden, Tony Host. #GreaseLive Scores. #Ham4Ham Digital Returns. Week in New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

  Late Late Show host and Tony winner James Corden will be the host of the 70th Tony Awards June 12th. He won his Tony for One Man, Two Guvnors. Grease Live, the fourth live television …

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Monday, February 1, 2016

February 2016 Theater Openings Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway by Jonathan Mandell

Actor Forest Whitaker and playwright Stephen Karam make their separate Broadway debuts this month in the only two Broadway shows opening in February — a revival of Eugene O’Neill…

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Grease Live Review: A New Genre of TV (but not Theater) by Jonathan Mandell

Grease Live was so smartly cast and so inventively staged — and so much communal fun — that it was easier to forgive the fact that it was still Grease, a dopey, dated, leather-de…

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Sunday, January 31, 2016

Sing Along with #GreaseLive: Song Lyrics by Jonathan Mandell

Below is the tracklist for Grease live broadcast on Fox today January 31, 2016, 7 to 10 p.m. The song titles are linked to lyrics as performed either in the original 1972 Broadway production…

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

New York Theater Quiz January 2016 by Jonathan Mandell

How well were you paying attention to New York theater news and reviews in January? Answer these dozen questions —  about BroadwayCon and the blizzard and Hamilton and which Al P…

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Friday, January 29, 2016

Sojourners Review: African Immigrant Epic Begins With Love Stories by Jonathan Mandell

In "Sojourners," a curious kind of love story among oddly carved characters, a man visits the hospital room of a woman he just recently met who's given birth to the child of her absent husba…

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Wednesday, January 27, 2016

I and You Review: Teenagers Facing Life and Death Through Walt Whitman by Jonathan Mandell

I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…

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I and You: Review, Pics, Video by Jonathan Mandell

I and You, Lauren Gunderson's two-character play that now has opened in New York, has been produced in some 20 theaters around the country (including Olney Theatre Center), receiving awar…

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Noah Robbins on Grease Live, His First Musical Since High School by Jonathan Mandell

‘When the New York Times published a photograph of the cast of Grease Live this week, Noah Robbins posted it on his Facebook page and noted: "I'm on the far right, apparently practicin…

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Monday, January 25, 2016

BroadwayCon. Blizzard, Bette Back on Broadway. Week in New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

Undeterred by the second biggest blizzard that New York has experienced since 1869 " which shut down the city and Broadway too — they came from Canada and Florida, Las Vegas and dow…

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

#SnowDay Discounts? by Jonathan Mandell

The blizzard that attacked New York City on Saturday, deposited 26.8 inches of snow in Central Park, making it the city’s second-largest blizzard since 1869. But that’s all hi…

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Saturday, January 23, 2016

Broadway Shows All Canceled Saturday Due To #Blizzard2016 by Jonathan Mandell

The shutdown of public transportation during the blizzard has caused the Broadway League to cancel all performances of Broadway shows for Saturday, January 23, 2016, both matinee and evening…

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BroadwayCon, Day 1: stars turn out to talk with thousands of fans by Jonathan Mandell

On Day 1 of Year 1 of BroadwayCon, being held for three days at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, we learned: “It’s like Comic Con but with more jazz hands and green face pa…

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Friday, January 22, 2016

Our Mother's Brief Affair review: Linda Lavin in Richard Greenberg's tale of adultery, memory, and the Rosenbergs by Jonathan Mandell

Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end, two hours later, playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung s…

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Our Mother's Brief Affair: Review, Pics by Jonathan Mandell

Our Mother's Brief Affair begins with Linda Lavin in a mother's deathbed confession to her grown gay twin children, but by the end two hours later playwright Richard Greenberg has sprung sev…

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Bowie, Bogosian and Bobby Moreno by Jonathan Mandell

Early Monday morning, January 11th, on the day that the cast of "Lazarus" was due to record David Bowie's songs for an album, Bobby Moreno, who performs in the show, got a text on his smart …

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Mother Courage and Her Children review: Brecht's anti-war epic set in the Congo by Jonathan Mandell

Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…

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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Mother Courage and Her Children: Review, Pics by Jonathan Mandell

Kecia Lewis is nearly heroic as Mother Courage in the Classic Stage Company's production of Brecht's anti-war epic " not the way she's playing the character, but the actress herself, because…

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Skeleton Crew Review: Down But Not Out in The Last of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit Trilogy by Jonathan Mandell

Dominique Morisseau was moved to write Skeleton Crew, her compelling play about a group of Detroit auto workers, after the playwright met a woman who was reduced to living in her automobile …

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Skeleton Crew by Dominique Morisseau " Review, Pics by Jonathan Mandell

Dominique Morisseau, the author of Skeleton Crew, the compelling final play in her Detroit trilogy which focuses on a group of Detroit auto workers, won the 2015 Steinberg Playwright A…

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Broadway and the Blizzards of 2016 by Jonathan Mandell

Meteorologists are warning that the season's first significant winter storm may be arriving in New York City as early as this Friday, January 22, 2016. (Weather Channel forecast) Although it…

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Monday, January 18, 2016

#NewYorkValues. RIP Alan Rickman Et Al. #Ham4Ham Indoors. Week in New York Theater by Jonathan Mandell

Martin Luther King Jr.'s I Have A Dream speech. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Lin-Manuel Miranda went back to his elementary school for his second indoor #Ham4Ham: Here's his first…

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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Can you make performance art about genocide? Samedi Detente by Jonathan Mandell

Dorothée Munyaneza grew up in Rwanda listening to a popular Saturday morning variety show on the radio called Samedi Detente. When she was 12 years old, in 1994, 800,000 of her fellow Rwand…

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Saturday, January 16, 2016

David Lawson, New York Theater Guy, Times Square Flyer Guy by Jonathan Mandell

David Lawson is a New York theater person, which is to say he makes his art for the stage, but, like thousands of others, he makes his living doing something else. He hands out flyers in Tim…

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Friday, January 15, 2016

Collaborators Review: Would You Kill For Your Art? by Jonathan Mandell

How far is too far to get your art out to the public? What if it meant collaborating with Joseph Stalin? That is the black comedy at the heart of "Collaborators," a first play by John Hodge …

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Noises Off review: Starry Broadway slapstick in an old backstage farce by Jonathan Mandell

Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…

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Noises Off on Broadway: Review, Pics, Video by Jonathan Mandell

Slamming doors and plates of sardines were all I could recall from the last time I saw Noises Off, and that's a good summary of the third Broadway production of Michael Frayn's slapstick bac…

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