1,048 stories by "Johnny Oleksinski"
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."
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.
