1,038 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
You can indulge your inner mullet with "Tiger King: The Musical."
When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way.
The 2020 Tony Awards, originally scheduled to air Sunday, June 7, on CBS, will be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, a spokeswoman announced Wednesday. The statement said that a new …
A series of unfortunate events has come to Broadway. No, not the Lemony Snicket novels, but "Girl From the North Country," a mashup of Bob Dylan songs and abject misery. The show, which open…
Want drama, gossip and theatrics? Then head to a gay birthday party! That's where writer-performer Drew Droege set his latest off-Broadway solo show, "Happy Birthday Doug," a comedy about a …
It feels pretty . . . different. A galvanizing new revival of "West Side Story" opened Thursday night on Broadway, minus some familiar sights and sounds. Jerome Robbins' legend…
Audiences aren't showing up at "My Name Is Lucy Barton" for Lucy " they're coming for Linney. That's Laura Linney, the venerable actress, who stars in the one-woman play, adapted from Elizab…
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…
