August 17, 2016

The Mandell Theater opens in 1973 and is named after Samuel P. Mandell, a member of Drexel’s board of trustees. The space is used to host Drexel’s performing arts groups as well as outside events. Mandell Theater has hosted Drexel singers, musicians, dancers and actors for performances including “Guys and Dolls” (1986) and Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” among many others; Drexel’s annual fashion show; lectures and talks given by Drexel staff and outside public speakers as varied as Martin Luther King, Jr.’s daughter to Nobel laureates to ex-CIA analysts to bestselling authors.