1,038 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
On Tuesday, the "Crocodile Rock" singer's "Tammy Faye," a migraine about mascara set to music, posted its closing notice only five days after opening night. Said a wag: "The shocker is that …
There is a miracle elixir in the campy musical "Death Becomes Her," which opened Thursday night at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre: Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard.
Sir Elton knows his way around a flop. But even his 2006 vampire debacle "Lestat," which The Post's Clive Barnes declared as "bloody awful," ran a little longer.
Something I won't be saying on my death bed: "I wish I would've watched more shows about boats."
Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a "Lestat" than an "Aida."
The blissful, boundlessly creative gift of a musical from South Korea opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre.
What's onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist.Â
A tribute show honoring Joan Rivers, and the "Stand Up For Heroes" benefit event featuring Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa, are all part of the 2024 New York Comedy Festival.
For everybody, Broadway " despite the nostalgic fun of putting on a show " comes at an enormous risk to a star's pride and reputation.Â
What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix's "Heartstopper."
Delia Ephron's play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it's sluggish and awkward.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard," which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway's most exhilarating show in years
What a joy it is to see "Something Rotten" transformed into something terrific. The caffeinated comedy, which played New York back in 2015, is the marquee musical of the Stratford Festiv…
The playwright and producers of "Stereophonic," this year's Tony Award winner for Best Play, and its landlord the Shubert Organization are being sued by writers Steven Stiefel and Ken Cailla…
Director Kenny Leon's staging of "Our Town" is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.
Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," has died.
The tiresome Broadway play "McNeal," starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag's favorite topic " AI.
No, the former Pussycat Doll didn't get into a fist fight in Shubert Alley " she's the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical "Sunset Boulevard," which started previews last weekend.…
Gavin Creel, the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals such as "Hello, Dolly!" and "Hair," died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.
At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterworth's new play "The Hills of California" opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.
A show and a star have aligned. Mary Rodgers' 1959 musical comedy has found Sutton Foster.
Look out 'cause here it comes. Disney Theatrical Group announced that a new stage musical of "The Greatest Showman" is in development at their D23 fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., on F…
Max Wolf Friedlich's spicy drama is a collision of all of those essays and studies you've read about that age group's unique tendencies " especially their desire to get paid by doing "meanin…
Something I would have never guessed five years ago: One of Broadway's hottest shows is a rip-roaring comedy about Mary Todd Lincoln, the wife of Abraham Lincoln.
The preposterously enjoyable non-musical play does the impossible "thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.