1,048 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
With the flop of his film "The Social Reckoning" and the bad reviews of "A Few Good Men" on Broadway, Aaron Sorkin is facing more crises than the Bartlet administration.
The Broadway play starring Bradley Whitford and Tom Blyth is a musty old courtroom drama that resembles a million others with its chatty windbags and zero surprises.
Perhaps the audience in the Todd Haimes Theatre imagined that they had laryngitis. Because the laughs certainly did not flow freely at the recent performance of Molière’s “The Imaginary…
Much as Benjamin Button ages backwards from elderly to infant, the new musical “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” also starts off unrecognizably from where it ultimately winds up. Fro…
What the extraordinary Billy Crystal manages in “860,” his latest one-man Broadway show that opened Wednesday night at the Imperial Theatre, is a feat.
“Other Desert Cities,” like so many plays, is about a family with issues, to say the very least. A free-spirited Manhattan writer named Brooke jets to sunny Palm Springs to visit her wel…
Sheik’s score, while far from perfect, is not really the main problem for “Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen,” the clumsy and uncomfortable musical that opened Thursday in the old “Sleep …
I heard several terrified yells at a recent performance at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada, an idyllic theater haven near Toronto.
To wawaweewa, or not to wawaweewa?
If it’s OK to howl at “Oh, Mary!" on Broadway, why not shriek at “Paranormal Activity”?
A spy — let’s call him the Master of Whisperers — who caught a preview in the UK this week was unimpressed.
Yes, this is a huge concert — not a full production. It nonetheless manages to be as rousing as ever.
Catherine Cohen's new downtown solo show “Broad Strokes” at the Lucille Lortel theater is about the surrealness of a 30-year-old enduring a medical emergency most commonly afflicting peo…
Of the four new musicals that are currently on sale, there are two obvious pack leaders: The all-American Dolly Parton show and the polite British bear adventure from darkest England.
Ol’ Blue Eyes has been given the ol’ cruise ship treatment.
“I wanted to do what's become an iconic concert in the most iconic way,” British producer Cameron Mackintosh told The Post.
The iconic 99-year-old restaurant famed for its 1,200 celeb caricatures is closing up shop for several months after Wednesday night’s service for much-needed renovations and other behind-t…
Post critic Johnny Oleksinski picks who will win at the 2026 Tony Awards, which air Sunday June 7 on CBS.
The claws and fangs and Schmigs were out this week as the race to the Tony Awards heated up.
Tuesday’s nominations for the best of the Broadway season made it plainly clear what the group of 55 voting theater professionals absolutely loathed.
At long last, a vampire musical that doesn’t suck.
Almost without fail, the brilliance of August Wilson emerges even in mediocre stagings of his plays.
It’s just a jump to the left. And then a step to the right. Put your hands…over your mouths!
As it stands, the characters who inhabit “Beaches” are about as alive as the sandy shells boring Bertie so loves to collect.
It’s the Battle of the Affluent!
