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Tuesday, April 30, 2024

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:57AM
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. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:18AM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:16PM
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 Fitzg…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:22PM
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. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM

‘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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:14PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:52PM
Monday, April 22, 2024
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!” …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:38PM
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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:12AM
Thursday, April 18, 2024
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:16PM
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.”

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:07AM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:15PM

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:55AM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:05PM
Thursday, March 21, 2024
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 a…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:29PM
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 news…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM
Friday, March 15, 2024

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:04AM
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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:10PM
Tuesday, January 30, 2024

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 s…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:58PM
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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:39PM
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 Br…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:48PM

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2024-2025 BROADWAY SEASON
Jun 05, 2024: Home - Todd Haimes Theatre
Jul 11, 2024: Oh, Mary! - Lyceum Theatre
Jul 30, 2024: Job - Hayes Theater
Sep 12, 2024: The Roommate - Booth Theatre
Nov 14, 2024: Tammy Faye - Palace Theatre
Dec 12, 2024: Cult of Love - Hayes Theater
Dec 19, 2024: Gypsy - Majestic Theatre
Mar 17, 2025: Purpose - Hayes Theater
Apr 01, 2025: Glengarry Glen Ross
Apr 10, 2025: Smash - Imperial Theatre
TBA: Titanic