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Monday, December 19, 2022

'Between Riverside and Crazy' review: A titanic stage performance by Johnny Oleksinski

Star Stephen McKinley Henderson gives the performance of the Broadway season.

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Monday, December 12, 2022
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Thursday, December 8, 2022

'Ohio State Murders' review: Audra McDonald wows in mild Broadway play by Johnny Oleksinski

The revival is an absorbing, observant and admirably peculiar character study with stinging parallels to today.

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Monday, November 21, 2022

'A Christmas Carol' review: Broadway sexily dusts off an old chestnut by Johnny Oleksinski

What's so striking about this streamlined version is the grandeur it manages to summon with simplicity.

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Thursday, November 17, 2022
Tuesday, November 15, 2022

Shocking, controversial 'Downstate' is the season's best play so far by Johnny Oleksinski

The brilliant and risky drama is set in a group home for sex offenders and pedophiles.

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

'Kimberly Akimbo' review: A weirdly wacky, but sweet Broadway musical by Johnny Oleksinski

The mounting insanity of the cute new show almost becomes too much. Almost.

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

'Almost Famous' Broadway review: Musical doesn't rock by Johnny Oleksinski

Cameron Crowe's stage version of his classic coming-of-age film is B-side the point.

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Saturday, October 29, 2022

Stratford Festival shows Daniel Craig how it's done by Johnny Oleksinski

The Stratford Festival in Canada was a much needed palate cleanser to wipe away the foul taste left by Daniel Craig's rank Broadway "Macbeth," in which the entire cast spoke in monotone, wor…

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

Elton John's lacking 'Tammy Faye' musical needs a prayer by Johnny Oleksinski

Fresh off the atrocious "The Devil Wears Prada" musical in Chicago, Elton John is back with The Televangelist Wears Mascara in London. 

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Tuesday, October 25, 2022

'My Neighbour Totoro' review: Bring this Miyazaki stage show to Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

A wondrous stage adaptation of Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's classic 1988 animated film has arrived in London.

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

'Topdog/Underdog' Broadway review: Two hot-blooded actors face off by Johnny Oleksinski

This sharp, focused revival has a pair of cracking performances that never let up.  

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Thursday, October 13, 2022

'The Piano Lesson' Broadway review: A blisteringly acted drama by Johnny Oleksinski

The revival of the August Wilson play is mostly in tune. 

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

From 'Mame' to 'Sweeney Todd,' Angela Lansbury was a Broadway goddess by Johnny Oleksinski

The remarkably transformative British actress boasted an electrifying presence that was a rare storm of contradictions.

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Sunday, October 9, 2022

'Death of a Salesman' Broadway review: So-so revival lacks fire by Johnny Oleksinski

There are more tricks than exciting drama in the latest revival of "Death of a Salesman," which opened Sunday night on Broadway. Jazz music often underscores and pacifies the action, and cha…

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Thursday, October 6, 2022

'1776' Broadway review: Woke musical revival isn't revolutionary by Johnny Oleksinski

Heavy-handed revisionism does not suit the new revival of this 1969 musical.

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Monday, October 3, 2022

'Cost of Living' Broadway review: A gripping, unexpected drama by Johnny Oleksinski

The absorbing show pushes back against our expectations for a story like this one.

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Andrew Lloyd Webber's troubled 'Cinderella' heads to Broadway with changes " and a new title by Johnny Oleksinski

"Cinderella" is coming to Broadway after all " and, like the main character, she's getting an extreme makeover.

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Sunday, October 2, 2022

'Leopoldstadt' Broadway review: Tom Stoppard's play is too big and icy by Johnny Oleksinski

A grandmother makes a depressing observation early on in Tom Stoppard's latest play "Leopoldstadt," which opened Sunday night on Broadway.

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Sunday, September 18, 2022

'Phantom of the Opera' sales explode after shock closing announcement by Johnny Oleksinski

After The Post's Friday scoop that the show would close this winter after 35 years, it took in $2 million in ticket sales by 8 p.m., producer Cameron Mackintosh exclusively told The Post.

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Friday, September 16, 2022
Tuesday, September 6, 2022

'Funny Girl' review: Lea Michele lifts Broadway show out of the guttah by Johnny Oleksinski

Different people who need people have finally arrived at "Funny Girl" on Broadway. The problem-plagued revival of Jule Styne and Isobel Lennart's 1964 musical welcomed its new Fanny Brice, L…

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Alec Baldwin plans his return to acting " on Broadway " in first job since 'Rust' shooting by Johnny Oleksinski

A source exclusively told The Post that the actor will star in a revival of the play "Art" by Yasmina Reza.

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Thursday, August 18, 2022

Panned 'Devil Wears Prada' musical is seeking a massive makeover by Johnny Oleksinski

The disastrous new show isn't packing up its Prabal Gurung just yet " it's charging ahead like a model who just face-planted on the catwalk.

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Sunday, August 7, 2022
Friday, August 5, 2022

'Titanique' the musical review: Off-Broadway 'Titanic' parody is what your summer needs by Johnny Oleksinski

The off-Broadway cuckoo camp-fest at the Asylum in Chelsea is, by a nautical mile, the funniest musical in town right now.

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Thursday, July 21, 2022

'The Kite Runner' Broadway review: Gripping stage adaptation of bestseller by Johnny Oleksinski

It's a straightforward, to-the-point play, but one that's easy to embrace.

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Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Samuel L. Jackson's Broadway play 'The Piano Lesson' gets shafted by Johnny Oleksinski

Beanie Feldstein isn't the only star being slighted on Broadway during this cruel summer.

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Beanie Feldstein's surprising return to 'Funny Girl' stage after Lea Michele announcement by Johnny Oleksinski

The chatter on the Rialto Tuesday was that Feldstein might vamoose even sooner than July 31 because of the onslaught of media attention.

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