1,038 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
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."
The mood of "A Chorus Line"'s half-century fete is bittersweet. Because the last time I walked out of a new Broadway musical feeling the thrill of having just watched a really big hit was a …
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…
