1,032 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
Broadway must be eyeing this big-hearted little bear with envy, because New York's got nothing close that hasn't already been chugging along for over a decade.
The stage and screen legend is back home on Broadway, where she got her start in "Gypsy" opposite Ethel Merman in 1960, for the first time in eight years.Â
As "Wicked: For Good" is about to hit theaters, what many forget is that "Wicked" the musical didn't start off as a surefire juggernaut that was destined to gross $6 billion.
British actor Sam Tutty is funny, Shirley Temple endearing and effortlessly magnetic as in the new meet-cute musical.
Last week, "First Shadow," which only landed on Broadway in late March, played to just 75% capacity. The seven days before that? 65%.Â
British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival from London starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong that opened Thu…
At the center of the Broadway musical "The Queen of Versailles" is an unfinished, 90,000-square-foot house in Florida " one of the biggest private homes in America.
Felton, who will soon star in the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," says his former movie co-star with more stage experience has lent him a hand.
It's a hard-hitting, hard-laughing show that combines topics that you arrive at the theater not itching to confront " the COVID pandemic, meth addiction, health insurance, shift pay " into a…
Bess Wohl's 1970s-set dramedy comes plenty of hot-tempered clashes, solid jokes and, to ensure no one dozes off, an extended full-frontal nudity scene.Â
That's what this entire exercise in soulless IP exploitation is: A fun movie masquerading as an interminable musical.
The venerable Canadian theater festival's revival of "Annie" plays well into December " one of spring-and-summer Stratford's longest runs ever. So the sun will come out tomorrow, albeit for …
Stripping away the excesses of Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty and Terrence McNally's 1996 musical about the turn of the 20th century amplifies its many, many flaws. Â
The Rockettes are getting a Christmas present: Radio City Musical Hall is kicking up the sound quality.
It's "Sleep No More" meets "The Music of the Night."
In the sense that Keanu Reeves shows up for work at "Waiting for Godot," the play that opened Sunday night on Broadway, the crowd gets what they came for.
Keanu Reeves, James Corden, Lea Michele and Kristin Chenoweth star in Broadway shows this fall. Who will fly and who will flop?
French writer Yasmina Reza's 1998 whine-and-cheese comedy opened at the Music Box Theatre on Tuesday night in an askew revival starring Neil Patrick Harris, James Corden and Bobby Cannava…
"Twelfth Night," a comedy of disguises and mistaken identities, is a smart play to reopen Shakespeare in the Park with after a two-year-long renovation break.
Working 9 to 5? Dolly Parton's new musical is going to need to be worked on 24/7, 365 to be remotely ready for its planned Broadway bow next year.
This bracing revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Evita" in London is the best and liveliest in ages.
Hercules is flexing and flailing once more in London at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.
"Mamma Mia!" is a much-needed vacation from all the seriousness and drear. The foremother of the old-pop-songs-in-a-new-story genre is still the very best in the game.
2015 was an unbelievably exciting time to be in New York " thanks, in no small part, to Broadway and Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.
Broadway's summer controversy has finally arrived in the form of a piping hot controversy at this year's Best Musical Tony Award winner, "Maybe Happy Ending."
