1,031 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
It's positively loony watching a room full of millennials, drunk on nostalgia, mouthing every word and knowing every beat of a 27-year-old kids movie. Â
Twenty-four years ago, the then-new show lifted up New York City when it was at its lowest. "Mamma Mia!" debuted less than a month after the 9/11 attacks.
Broadway was singing a different showtune this week. Luck be a lady… somewhere else!
Why, why, why has Jean Smart chosen to return to Broadway in this anemic, copy-and-paste star vehicle fit for the junkyard?Â
For years, audiences grew to love John Krasinski's mild-mannered Jim on "The Office": His half-grins, dry confessionals, knowing glances at Pam. Jim was one of TV's nicest guys. That's what …
Hey, at least the decent "How To Train Your Dragon" update is better than "Snow White."
Sunday night was a signed, sealed, delivered happy ending for "Maybe Happy Ending," the stratospherically original South Korean gem about robots in love starring Darren Criss that dese…
Post critic Johnny Oleksinski gives his predictions on who will win big at Sunday night's Tony Awards.
Two big shows were fuming Tuesday that they're being left out of the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS Sunday night: "Boop! The Betty Boop Musical" and "Smash."
There was a torrent of activity in the race to the Tony Awards on June 8 " a lot of campaigning, some award shake-ups and the Broadway League's Spring Road Conference.
There's one building on Broadway Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his eye on for years.
"Sunset" aficionados will hear a difference on Broadway: An entire number has been scrapped: "The Lady's Paying."Â
A week ago, the starkly reimagined production of "Sunset Boulevard" deservedly scored seven Tony Award nominations, including for Best Revival, the indomitable Scherzinger, her exciting lead…
Peters is back on Broadway this season after seven years away, alongside Lea Salonga and 15 others in a wonderful revue of the late composer's work called "Old Friends."Â
Denzel Washington, Kieran Culkin and Robert Downey Jr. were rightly snubbed by the Tony Award nominations, while smaller shows like "Maybe Happy Ending" and "Oh, Mary!" soared.
The corpse musical "Dead Outlaw," which opened Sunday at the Longacre Theatre, has been schlepped from the cool and intimate Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village to a big Broadway house…
Director Alex Timbers and his irrepressible star Jonathan Groff have made magic with the Bobby Darin musical "Just in Time," which opened Saturday night at the Circle in the Square The…
This slaphappy, reworked revival of "The Pirates of Penzance," which opened Thursday night on Broadway, shifts the absurd action some 2,800 nautical miles west to New Orleans, Louisian…
All of the blaring special effects are in service of a throwaway play in which the real villain ain't Vecna " it's the writing.
"Floyd Collins," the real story of a trapped Kentucky cave explorer, is a musical split in two " and not for the better.
Kimberly Belflower's often entertaining, mostly clever, frequently phony dramedy that opened Monday night at the Booth Theatre could have used another draft.Â
The best part of venturing out into jam-packed Times Square in the busy spring? Venturing inside into a somewhat less jam-packed bar or restaurant for a meal, a martini " and a star spotting.
"Let's Be Bad" is a song from the Broadway musical "Smash."Â It is also the production's motto.
It's a rare and special experience to watch performers of the calibre of Peters and co-stars like Lea Salonga sing Sondheim while backed by a sensational 14-piece orchestra in an intimate ro…
Jasmine Amy Rogers, a 25-year-old actress, makes a marvelous Broadway debut in the Betty Boop musical "Boop."
