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Saturday, January 3, 2026

Celeb favorite Times Square restaurant Un Deux Trois closes after 48 years: 'It's an institution' by Johnny Oleksinski

Star fans included Sarah Jessica Parker, Robert Downey Jr., Jonathan Groff, Nathan Lane, Cynthia Nixon, Marsha Mason, Christine Baranski, Alan Cumming and many, many more.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 05:56PM[SHARE]
Friday, December 12, 2025

'Paddington: The Musical' in London is the best family show in years by Johnny Oleksinski

Broadway must be eyeing this big-hearted little bear with envy, because New York's got nothing close that hasn't already been chugging along for over a decade.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:56PM[SHARE]
Monday, December 8, 2025

'Marjorie Prime' review: June Squibb is a marvel in an early highlight of the Broadway season by Johnny Oleksinski

The stage and screen legend is back home on Broadway, where she got her start in "Gypsy" opposite Ethel Merman in 1960, for the first time in eight years. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:31PM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 22, 2025

'Wicked' on Broadway was ripped by critics " and then became a global hit worth billions by Johnny Oleksinski

As "Wicked: For Good" is about to hit theaters, what many forget is that "Wicked" the musical didn't start off as a surefire juggernaut that was destined to gross $6 billion.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:15PM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 20, 2025

'Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)' review: A hilarious new star bursts onto Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

British actor Sam Tutty is funny, Shirley Temple endearing and effortlessly magnetic as in the new meet-cute musical.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 15, 2025

Can 'Stranger Things' Season 5 reverse the Broadway show's godawful ticket sales?: 'Holding onto hope' by Johnny Oleksinski

Last week, "First Shadow," which only landed on Broadway in late March, played to just 75% capacity. The seven days before that? 65%. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 13, 2025

'Oedipus' review: Mark Strong and Lesley Manville are ferocious in a pulse-pounding Broadway tragedy by Johnny Oleksinski

British writer-director Robert Icke has wrestled Sophocles into 2025, breathtakingly so, with his starkly intense revival from London starring Lesley Manville and Mark Strong that opened Thu…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:59PM[SHARE]
Sunday, November 9, 2025

'Queen of Versailles' review: Kristin Chenoweth returns to Broadway in a dire musical that needs a wrecking ball by Johnny Oleksinski

At the center of the Broadway musical "The Queen of Versailles" is an unfinished, 90,000-square-foot house in Florida " one of the biggest private homes in America.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:59PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Tom Felton says he's gotten 'tips' from Daniel Radcliffe for his Broadway 'Cursed Child' debut by Johnny Oleksinski

Felton, who will soon star in the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," says his former movie co-star with more stage experience has lent him a hand.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:30PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 30, 2025

'Little Bear Ridge Road' review: Laurie Metcalf bares her soul in moving Broadway play by Johnny Oleksinski

It's a hard-hitting, hard-laughing show that combines topics that you arrive at the theater not itching to confront " the COVID pandemic, meth addiction, health insurance, shift pay " into a…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]

'Liberation' review: Stellar acting in a Women's Lib play on Broadway 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. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:27PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 28, 2025

'Romy and Michele: The Musical' review: An awful reunion nobody asked for by Johnny Oleksinski

That's what this entire exercise in soulless IP exploitation is: A fun movie masquerading as an interminable musical.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 07:27PM[SHARE]
Monday, October 27, 2025

At the Stratford Festival, a back-flipping 'Annie' and hilarious ' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' by Johnny Oleksinski

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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:46PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 16, 2025

'Ragtime' review: Broadway revival still misses " but has sensational singing by Johnny Oleksinski

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.  

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 9, 2025

The Sphere's high-tech sound system is coming to Radio City by Johnny Oleksinski

The Rockettes are getting a Christmas present: Radio City Musical Hall is kicking up the sound quality.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:04AM[SHARE]
Monday, September 29, 2025
Sunday, September 28, 2025

'Waiting for Godot' review: 'Rough' Keanu Reeves struggles in mediocre production of stage classic by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:37PM[SHARE]
Saturday, September 20, 2025

Broadway is swarming with celebs again: Who will soar and who will run away in shame? by Johnny Oleksinski

Keanu Reeves, James Corden, Lea Michele and Kristin Chenoweth star in Broadway shows this fall. Who will fly and who will flop?

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:59PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

'Art' review: James Corden and Neil Patrick Harris drone on about paintings in retro Broadway comedy by Johnny Oleksinski

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Monday, August 25, 2025

'Twelfth Night' review: Lupita Nyong'o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage yuk it up in Central Park by Johnny Oleksinski

"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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:25PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 23, 2025

Dolly Parton's Broadway-bound musical gets vicious reactions in Nashville: 'Drag bar in Vegas' 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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:57AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Rachel Zegler is breathtaking in an 'Evita' that should come to Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

This bracing revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Evita" in London is the best and liveliest in ages.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:09PM[SHARE]
Friday, August 15, 2025

Disney can't get 'Hercules' right " musical doesn't go the distance again in London by Johnny Oleksinski

Hercules is flexing and flailing once more in London at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:45PM[SHARE]

'Mamma Mia!' review: Back on Broadway, a much-needed summer splash of ABBA by Johnny Oleksinski

"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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00AM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 9, 2025

'Hamilton' shook Broadway 10 years ago in a way it hasn't been since by Johnny Oleksinski

2015 was an unbelievably exciting time to be in New York " thanks, in no small part, to Broadway and Lin-Manuel Miranda's musical.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:25PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 2, 2025

Broadway is in a bizarre uproar over the race of an actor playing a robot by Johnny Oleksinski

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."

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:32PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 26, 2025

'A Chorus Line' turns 50 " and Broadway is desperate for another hit musical like it by Johnny Oleksinski

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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:35PM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 24, 2025

'Ginger Twinsies' review: Campy off-Broadway 'Parent Trap' parody is millennial catnip 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.  

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 5, 2025

'Mamma Mia!' " returning to Broadway " was a glittery boost to NYC after 9/11 by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:55AM[SHARE]
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Broadway's right " Jay-Z's Times Square casino bid must fail by Johnny Oleksinski

Broadway was singing a different showtune this week. Luck be a lady… somewhere else!

SOURCE: The New York Post at 03:46PM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 12, 2025

'Call Me Izzy' review: Jean Smart's good, but this Broadway play is a hack job by Johnny Oleksinski

Why, why, why has Jean Smart chosen to return to Broadway in this anemic, copy-and-paste star vehicle fit for the junkyard? 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]

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