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Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘All In: Comedy About Love’ review: Starry Broadway show’s a big waste of money

by Johnny Oleksinski

Ticket-buyers are being charged as much as $800 a pop some weeks for what is little more than a sedate staged reading of New Yorker cartoon captions uttered by celebrities.

Friday, December 20, 2024

‘Gypsy’ review: Audra McDonald’s Broadway revival is a badly staged letdown

by Johnny Oleksinski

With stop-start direction from George C. Wolfe, the musical runs out of gas early on.

Saturday, December 14, 2024

Elton John’s ‘Devil Wears Prada’ musical is still a haute mess across the pond

by Johnny Oleksinski

“The Devil Wears Prada,” Elton John’s horrid musical that crashed and burned two years ago in Chicago, is giving it a second go in London.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Elton John blames Trump’s election win for his huge Broadway flop, ‘Tammy Faye’

by Johnny Oleksinski

For Elton John, Trump’s victory did not make Broadway great again.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Elton John’s embarrassing $25M Broadway flop was predictable — the Rocket Man keeps crashing

by Johnny Oleksinski

On Tuesday, the “Crocodile Rock” singer’s “Tammy Faye,” a migraine about mascara set to music, posted its closing notice only five days after opening night. Said a wag: “The shocker is that it’s g…

Thursday, November 21, 2024

‘Death Becomes Her’ review: Leading ladies’ claws are out in funny Broadway camp fest

by Johnny Oleksinski

There is a miracle elixir in the campy musical “Death Becomes Her,” which opened Thursday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Elton John’s $25 million Broadway show announces closing — just five days after opening night

by Johnny Oleksinski

Sir Elton knows his way around a flop. But even his 2006 vampire debacle "Lestat," which The Post's Clive Barnes declared as "bloody awful," ran a little longer.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

‘Swept Away’ review: Strange Broadway shipwreck show has pretty folk songs — and cannibalism

by Johnny Oleksinski

Something I won’t be saying on my death bed: “I wish I would’ve watched more shows about boats.”

Thursday, November 14, 2024

‘Tammy Faye’ review: Elton John’s Broadway show is a disaster of biblical proportions

by Johnny Oleksinski

Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a “Lestat” than an “Aida.”

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

‘Maybe Happy Ending’ review: Romantic robot musical is glorious on Broadway — really

by Johnny Oleksinski

The blissful, boundlessly creative gift of a musical from South Korea opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre.

Monday, November 11, 2024

‘A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical’ review: A lifeless Satchmo show on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

What’s onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist. 

Friday, November 1, 2024

NY Comedy Festival founder talks Joan Rivers tribute — and Bruce Springsteen’s appearance with wife Patti Scialfa

by Johnny Oleksinski

A tribute show honoring Joan Rivers, and the "Stand Up For Heroes" benefit event featuring Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, are all part of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival.

Saturday, October 26, 2024

Why do Hollywood A-Listers gamble their reputations and egos on Broadway shows?

by Johnny Oleksinski

For everybody, Broadway — despite the nostalgic fun of putting on a show — comes at an enormous risk to a star’s pride and reputation. 

Thursday, October 24, 2024

‘Romeo + Juliet’ review: ‘Heartstopper’ star Kit Connor shines in hollow Broadway show

by Johnny Oleksinski

What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix’s “Heartstopper.”

Wednesday, October 23, 2024

‘Left on Tenth’ review: Julianna Margulies’ Broadway show is a sappy slog

by Johnny Oleksinski

Delia Ephron’s play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it's sluggish and awkward.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

‘Sunset Boulevard’ review: Nicole Scherzinger stuns in scorching, brilliant Broadway revival

by Johnny Oleksinski

Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Sunset Boulevard,” which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway’s most exhilarating show in years

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Broadway’s ‘Something Rotten’ gets reinvented by Canada’s Stratford Festival — and it’s hysterical

by Johnny Oleksinski

What a joy it is to see “Something Rotten” transformed into something terrific.  The caffeinated comedy, which played New York back in 2015, is the marquee musical of the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Can…

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Fleetwood Mac producer sues Tony Award-winning Broadway play that Brad Pitt owns the film rights to

by Johnny Oleksinski

The playwright and producers of “Stereophonic,” this year’s Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord the Shubert Organization are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Caillat, the Fleetwo…

Thursday, October 10, 2024

‘Our Town’ review: Bland Broadway revival starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes doesn’t hit home

by Johnny Oleksinski

Director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.

Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Broadway’s Ken Page, star of ‘Cats’ and ‘The Wiz’, dead at 70

by Johnny Oleksinski

Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died.

Monday, September 30, 2024

‘McNeal’ review: Robert Downey Jr.’s awful Broadway play about AI is a total wipeout

by Johnny Oleksinski

The tiresome Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag’s favorite topic — AI.

Nicole Scherzinger emerges from theater in nightgown, covered in ‘blood’

by Johnny Oleksinski

No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley — she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Broadway musical “Sunset Boulevard,” which started previews last weekend. 

Tony-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel dead at 48

by Johnny Oleksinski

Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Hair,” died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.

Sunday, September 29, 2024

‘Hills of California’ review: A cutthroat new stage mother on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterworth’s new play “The Hills of California” opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.

Monday, August 12, 2024

‘Once Upon a Mattress’ review: Sutton Foster is a perfect princess on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

A show and a star have aligned. Mary Rodgers’ 1959 musical comedy has found Sutton Foster.

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Disney’s ‘Greatest Showman’ stage musical will play London in 2026

by Johnny Oleksinski

Look out ‘cause here it comes.  Disney Theatrical Group announced that a new stage musical of “The Greatest Showman” is in development at their D23 fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Friday night.  T…

Monday, August 5, 2024

‘Job’ review: A millennial cracks in tense Broadway two-hander

by Johnny Oleksinski

Max Wolf Friedlich’s spicy drama is a collision of all of those essays and studies you’ve read about that age group’s unique tendencies — especially their desire to get paid by doing “meaningful work,…

Saturday, July 27, 2024

The sensational ‘Oh, Mary!’ proves you can’t predict a Broadway hit

by Johnny Oleksinski

Something I would have never guessed five years ago: One of Broadway’s hottest shows is a rip-roaring comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln.

Thursday, July 11, 2024

‘Oh, Mary!’ review: The funniest show on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

The preposterously enjoyable non-musical play does the impossible —thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Nancy Pelosi and AOC play ‘N/A’ is a predictable snooze

by Johnny Oleksinski

The behind-closed-doors scenes pitting the Speaker of the House against the upstart New York congresswoman are more like Disney’s Hall of Presidents — reverential and robotic — than Capitol Hill.

Thursday, June 20, 2024

‘Cats: The Jellicle Ball’ review: The most fun you’ll have at the theater this summer

by Johnny Oleksinski

The hottest show in town is… “Cats”? Nobody's said that since around 1984.

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

How NYC’s massive Palace Theater was lifted into the air: ‘An inch an hour’

by Johnny Oleksinski

The iconic Broadway venue that’s played host to such luminaries as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler was dramatically lifted 30 feet.

Monday, June 17, 2024

Inside the Tony Awards afterparties: Angelina Jolie serves McDonald’s, Billy Porter protests

by Johnny Oleksinski

“No more Carlyle! No more Carlyle!,” shouted Billy Porter. 

Sunday, June 16, 2024

‘Outsiders’ knocks out ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ at an otherwise dull Tony Awards

by Johnny Oleksinski

They weren’t outsiders on Sunday night. In a neck-and-neck race, the fantastic new musical “The Outsiders” ultimately took home the coveted Best Musical trophy at the Tony Awards, honoring the best of Bro…

Saturday, June 15, 2024

Tony Awards 2024 predictions: ‘Hell’s Kitchen’ or ‘Outsiders’ — which will win Best Musical?

by Johnny Oleksinski

It’s not just the humidity that has Midtown Manhattan sweating bullets -- it’s the Tony Awards.

Inside the Tonys’ most legendarily debauched after-party: Fights, fires and passed-out-legends:

by Johnny Oleksinski

If you thought Broadway was Hollywood’s classier cousin, you thought wrong.

Friday, June 14, 2024

‘Titanic’ musical review: Tragic tale is sweeping and thrilling — even without Jack and Rose

by Johnny Oleksinski

With a score as lush and transportive as this one, bigger is definitely better.

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Tom Holland stuck in heinous London ‘Romeo and Juliet’: ‘2.5 hours of my life I will never get back’

by Johnny Oleksinski

Like a fly caught in a web, Tom Holland -- known best for playing Spider-Man in the MCU -- is trapped in a woeful West End production of “Romeo & Juliet.”

Wednesday, May 29, 2024

The Post was right — Audra McDonald WILL play Mama Rose in ‘Gypsy’ on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

A new Broadway revival of “Gypsy,” starring Audra McDonald as Mama Rose, was officially announced on Wednesday.

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

The 2024 Tony nominations were pretty brutal

by Johnny Oleksinski

When the list was read aloud by Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry, it was snub city.

Tony Awards 2024 nominations: The full list of nominees

by Johnny Oleksinski

The nominations for the 2024 Tony Awards, honoring the best of Broadway, were announced Tuesday morning. The 2023-2024 Broadway season was a highly competitive and unpredictable one. Fifteen new musicals opened…

Saturday, April 27, 2024

This year’s Tony Award nominees for Best Musical have never been so unpredictable

by Johnny Oleksinski

This year, the nominations carry almost as much weight as the coveted prizes themselves. 

Friday, April 26, 2024

‘Illinoise’ review: Moving Broadway show is about love, loss — and dance

by Johnny Oleksinski

Set to the songs of Sufjan Stevens, it is a transporting and soul-stirring experience.

Thursday, April 25, 2024

‘Great Gatsby’ review: Broadway musical messes up beloved novel

by Johnny Oleksinski

Forget East Egg and West Egg. The creators of the new musical “The Great Gatsby,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, have laid an egg. This song-and-dance version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s enduring 1…

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

‘Uncle Vanya’ review: Steve Carell’s Broadway play is funny, not feeling

by Johnny Oleksinski

While the revival of Anton Chekhov's play has got the jokes down pat, it is quite a bit shakier when it comes to the pathos and hardship that spring from them. 

‘Mary Jane’ review: Rachel McAdams is a strong mom in teary Broadway play

by Johnny Oleksinski

Rachel McAdams brings an instantly heartbreaking quality to her performance in “Mary Jane”: Her steadfast optimism.

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

‘Patriots’ review: ‘Crown’ creator’s Putin play is a bore on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

It’s as slow and frigid as a cross-country skiing expedition through Siberia.

Monday, April 22, 2024

‘The Heart of Rock and Roll’ review: Huey Lewis’ Broadway show is hilarious fun

by Johnny Oleksinski

There’s rock and rolling in the aisles.

Sunday, April 21, 2024

‘Cabaret’ Broadway review: Revival with Eddie Redmayne is luxe — and bleak

by Johnny Oleksinski

Walking into the August Wilson Theatre, which has been gutted and impressively transformed into a sexy nightspot called the Kit Kat Club, my immediate reaction was, “Wow. This is cool!” The audience enters,…

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ review: Alicia Keys’ musical fires up on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

This girl is finally on fire.

Saturday, April 20, 2024

‘Stereophonic’ review: Broadway play goes behind the music

by Johnny Oleksinski

Although “Stereophonic” is not a musical, it’s easy to get swept up by the terrific original rock songs that throb through it.  And as writer David Adjmi’s play, which opened Friday night at the John G…

Thursday, April 18, 2024

‘Suffs’ review: A moving musical march that’s not quite there yet

by Johnny Oleksinski

They’ve gotta keep marching.

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

‘The Wiz’ Broadway review: We’re off to see the cheap national tour!

by Johnny Oleksinski

Yes, “The Wiz” should ease on down the road — but with boundless creativity and awe.

Sunday, April 14, 2024

‘Lempicka’ Broadway review: Painter musical is an epic wreck

by Johnny Oleksinski

What “Lempicka,” the mystifying new musical about Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka, needs more than anything else is turpentine.

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Meet the Pete Townshend-approved breakout star of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

“He hasn’t needed a lecture about what makes a star, and what can cause a star to fall. He just gets it.”

Thursday, April 11, 2024

‘The Outsiders’ Broadway review: Warring teens tug at the heart in one of the season’s best new musicals

by Johnny Oleksinski

Driven by authenticity, earnestness, youth and ample heart, “The Outsiders” is very much an outsider itself.

Patti LuPone is coming back to Broadway — with Mia Farrow — even after she ditched the actors union

by Johnny Oleksinski

In 2022, LuPone very publicly left Actors Equity, the professional actors union that a performer must be a member of to work on Broadway.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

‘The Who’s Tommy’ Broadway review: 4 stars for a galvanizing rock revival

by Johnny Oleksinski

That we all have an inner adult and an inner child is a deeply relatable idea, even in a cuckoosical such as this one.

Thursday, March 21, 2024

‘Water For Elephants’ review: Awesome acrobats can’t save this Broadway circus

by Johnny Oleksinski

The proceedings have the pacing of a pachyderm. 

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Off-Broadway is booming — and it’s a lesson for theaters everywhere

by Johnny Oleksinski

Midtown’s swell, but lately New York’s hottest tickets are well below 42nd Street. While theaters in the city and around the country have struggled in the face of skyrocketing expenses and sagging attendanc…

Monday, March 18, 2024

‘An Enemy of the People’ review: Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli duke it out on Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

There is an unintentionally funny line in the compelling revival of “An Enemy of the People” that opened Monday night on Broadway. “We’re behind you like a wall!” a small-town newspaper printer named …

Friday, March 15, 2024

Spring has sprung on Broadway: Every show to catch this season

by Johnny Oleksinski

Sixteen going on 17? Try 18.

Climate activists halt Jeremy Strong, Michael Imperioli Broadway play ‘An Enemy of the People’ mid-show

by Johnny Oleksinski

At Thursday night’s performance of “An Enemy of the People” on Broadway, starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli, three environmental activists interrupted the start of the second act with shouts of …

Thursday, March 14, 2024

‘The Notebook’ review: Broadway musical doesn’t match the film’s sweep

by Johnny Oleksinski

Not a single change book writer Bekah Brunstetter has made improves the simple story’s effectiveness. In most cases, the alterations dull its punch and turn it into a wispy memory play. A memory for them beco…

Thursday, March 7, 2024

‘Doubt’ Broadway review: Nun play still scorches — even in a so-so revival

by Johnny Oleksinski

John Patrick Shanley wrote an immaculate work that can stand up to even adequate productions like the one starring Amy Ryan and Liev Schreiber that opened Thursday on Broadway.

Thursday, February 8, 2024

‘Oh, Mary!’ review: Wild West Wing comedy is the funniest show in town

by Johnny Oleksinski

Director Sam Pinkleton stages this fabulously overdramatic display with both scrappiness and sheen.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024

An understudy takes center stage — story of a Chita Rivera mistake

by Johnny Oleksinski

Liane Plane, who died a month ago at age 92, adored being in the vibrant picture nonetheless.

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

The great Chita Rivera changed Broadway forever

by Johnny Oleksinski

She really was all that jazz.

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dead at 91

by Johnny Oleksinski

Chita Rivera, the dazzling Broadway star who originated roles in the musicals "Chicago," "West Side Story" and "Kiss of the Spider Woman" died Tuesday, her daughter Lisa Mordente said in a statement.

Monday, January 29, 2024

‘Days of Wine and Roses’ review: Alcoholism Broadway show is no happy hour

by Johnny Oleksinski

The worst bar sales on Broadway have got to be at Studio 54, where “Days of Wine and Roses” opened Sunday night.

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

‘Succession’ Emmy winner Sarah Snook will make her Broadway debut

by Johnny Oleksinski

She’s ditching Waystar Royco for the Great White Way. Sarah Snook, the “Succession” star who won the Emmy Award for best actress in a drama series on Monday night, plans to make her Broadway debut next se…

Thursday, January 4, 2024

‘Sunset Boulevard,’ starring Nicole Scherzinger, will open on Broadway this fall

by Johnny Oleksinski

Get ready, Mr. DeMille. The London revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Sunset Boulevard,” starring Nicole Scherzinger, will arrive on Broadway later this year, a spokesman for the production said on…

Thursday, December 14, 2023

‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ review: Netflix stage play is a total disaster

by Johnny Oleksinski

Message to Netflix: Stick to the flicks. “Stranger Things: The First Shadow,” the streamer’s freshman attempt at a stage play is a huge, insufferable embarrassment. Mega-fans of the TV series, like me, wi…

Sunday, December 10, 2023

‘How To Dance In Ohio’ review: Autism musical is a better idea than show

by Johnny Oleksinski

“How To Dance In Ohio,” the new musical that opened Sunday night at the Belasco Theatre, marks a laudable first for Broadway: A show about autistic persons who are actually played by actors on the autism sp…

Sunday, November 19, 2023

‘Hell’s Kitchen’ review: Alicia Keys’ musical has fabulous songs, lacking story

by Johnny Oleksinski

It’s when the singing stops that this show with its sights set on Broadway is no longer on fire.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

‘Monty Python’s Spamalot’ Broadway review: An OK copy of the original

by Johnny Oleksinski

Never hilarious, the revival stalls out at pleasant. Spamalot, laugh a little.

Tuesday, November 14, 2023

‘Office’ star Steve Carell is headed to Broadway

by Johnny Oleksinski

Steve Carell, the Academy Award nominee who played Michael Scott on NBC’s “The Office,” will make his Broadway debut this spring in the play “Uncle Vanya,” Lincoln Center Theater announced on Tuesday.…

Monday, November 13, 2023

‘Harmony’ review: Barry Manilow’s Broadway musical is moving, but doesn’t quite sing

by Johnny Oleksinski

While “Harmony” is about a sextet of singers whose voices blend like milk and coffee, its elements do not similarly fuse into a cohesive and satisfying musical.

Friday, November 10, 2023

‘Old Friends’ review: Bernadette Peters’ Sondheim show is a stellar tribute

by Johnny Oleksinski

This major moment for Stephen Sondheim’s musicals is not limited to New York, where the late composer’s “Merrily We Roll Along,” “Sweeney Todd” and final show “Here We Are” are all playing at th…

Monday, November 6, 2023

Netflix returns to the Upside Down with first glimpse of ‘Stranger Things’ play

by Johnny Oleksinski

“Stranger Things: The First Shadow" begins performances this month in London.

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