1,031 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
The flashy girl from Flushing could be coming to Broadway.
More social issues are addressed in "Jagged Little Pill" than at a Democratic presidential debate. Opioid addiction, race, bisexuality, sexual assault " the Alanis Morissette musical, which …
While some ignorant millennials snipe "OK boomer" at anyone with a gray hair, a new play is clapping back.
If you want to relive Tina Turner's prime, you can't get much better than Adrienne Warren. The star of "Tina: The Tina Turner Musical," which opened Thursday night on Broadway, has that smok…
In 2003, the rock band the National released an album called "Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers." That would also make a good title for their new musical, "Cyrano," which opened off-Broadway Thursd…
Suddenly Seymour is standing beside you. Like, right beside you. "Little Shop of Horrors," which opened Thursday night off-Broadway, is getting a much more intimate staging than when it last…
Want to escape the 24-hour news cycle for a little while? Then head to the Public Theater, where Hillary Clinton tap-dances and twerks, and a gun-toting chorus sings "Make America Great Agai…
If they were smart, they'd beat it.
For a show that inspired a Change.org petition to have it canceled when it played downtown, the "Slave Play" that opened Sunday on Broadway delivers less a theatrical punch in the gut than a…
This a pretty low-key move for Loki. Tom Hiddleston, who plays the pale Marvel villain on-screen, is making his Broadway debut in an intimate, no-fuss revival of Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," …
Disney's still got heart. That's easy to forget, because the studio that once taught kids to wish upon a star and to go fly a kite has turned into Cyberdyne Systems: an evil behemoth hellben…
When Jelani Alladin sings "Go the Distance" in the Central Park staging of Disney musical "Hercules," the ballad isn't only about a Greek god searching for purpose. "I feel like 'Hercules' i…
A new musical about the life of Princess Diana will open on Broadway next spring. Called simply "Diana," the show follows Lady Diana Spencer to royal superstardom, family struggle and her ev…
A radioactive "Romeo and Juliet," set in a dystopian city whose teens are stuck in their current age forever.
Who needs ecstasy when we've got this glitter bomb?
And it goes uptown! "Little Shop of Horrors," the proudly weird sci-fi musical comedy with music by Alan Menken and book and lyrics by Howard Ashman, is getting its first proper off-Broadway…
Sir Paul McCartney could be leaving Abbey Road for Broadway. Over the past year, the Beatle has been writing a new musical, a stage version of the 1946 Frank Capra classic film "It's A Wonde…
With a new Prime Minister on the horizon, Brexit looming and a recent Women's World Cup loss to the United States, world-weary Londoners need an escape from the headlines. Good thing for the…
It's the 73rd Annual Sloooowny Awards! Sunday night's trophy ceremony for a Broadway season suffering from a lack of must-see shows and real star power suffered from, well, a lack of must-se…
LONDON " David Mamet has done it again! By which I mean that the out-of-his-mind playwright has appalled, offended and perplexed a packed house of hundreds of people " this time with his com…
And here I thought "Mean Girls" opened last season! The 2019 Tony Award nominations were announced Tuesday morning, and instead of its usual Celebration of Theater mood, we were treated to a…
If we say his name three times, will he go away? I'm not talking about the title character of "Beetlejuice," which opened Thursday night, but Eddie Perfect. Fresh off his heinous music for "…
"Sexy" is not a word you'd use to describe the founding of most newspapers. More accurate descriptors might include: "formal," "dusty" and "self-important." The Sun, however, is not like mos…
Meet Dorothy Michaels: Renowned stage actress and chanteuse. A brutally honest feminist who's built like a Hummer, she lives in New York, and " oh, right " she's really a he. Dorothy is the …
For a show about hell, "Hadestown" doesn't have much heat. Yes, composer Anaïs Mitchell's musical retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, which opened Wednesday on Broadway, sounds pl…
