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Wednesday, December 11, 2024

Elton John blames Trump's election win for his huge Broadway flop, 'Tammy Faye' by Johnny Oleksinski

For Elton John, Trump's victory did not make Broadway great again.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:28AM[SHARE]
Saturday, November 23, 2024

Elton John's embarrassing $25M Broadway flop was predictable " the Rocket Man keeps crashing 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 …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:03PM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 21, 2024

'Death Becomes Her' review: Leading ladies' claws are out in funny Broadway camp fest by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Elton John's $25 million Broadway show announces closing " just five days after opening night by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:57PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

'Swept Away' review: Strange Broadway shipwreck show has pretty folk songs " and cannibalism by Johnny Oleksinski

Something I won't be saying on my death bed: "I wish I would've watched more shows about boats."

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]
Thursday, November 14, 2024

'Tammy Faye' review: Elton John's Broadway show is a disaster of biblical proportions by Johnny Oleksinski

Unfortunately for Sir Elton, the godawful musical about flamboyant 1980s televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker is a lot more of a "Lestat" than an "Aida."

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:32PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

'Maybe Happy Ending' review: Romantic robot musical is glorious on Broadway " really by Johnny Oleksinski

The blissful, boundlessly creative gift of a musical from South Korea opened Monday night at the Belasco Theatre.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:53PM[SHARE]
Monday, November 11, 2024

'A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical' review: A lifeless Satchmo show on Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

What's onstage at Studio 54 is largely a deflating and cobbled-together wife story that fails to capture Armstrong the artist. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM[SHARE]
Friday, November 1, 2024

NY Comedy Festival founder talks Joan Rivers tribute " and Bruce Springsteen's appearance with wife Patti Scialfa by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:16PM[SHARE]
Saturday, October 26, 2024

Why do Hollywood A-Listers gamble their reputations and egos on Broadway shows? by Johnny Oleksinski

For everybody, Broadway " despite the nostalgic fun of putting on a show " comes at an enormous risk to a star's pride and reputation. 

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:07PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 24, 2024

'Romeo + Juliet' review: 'Heartstopper' star Kit Connor shines in hollow Broadway show by Johnny Oleksinski

What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix's "Heartstopper."

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, October 23, 2024

'Left on Tenth' review: Julianna Margulies' Broadway show is a sappy slog by Johnny Oleksinski

Delia Ephron's play starring Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher wants to be a moving romantic comedy, but it's sluggish and awkward.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:30PM[SHARE]
Sunday, October 20, 2024

'Sunset Boulevard' review: Nicole Scherzinger stuns in scorching, brilliant Broadway revival by Johnny Oleksinski

Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Sunset Boulevard," which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway's most exhilarating show in years

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:03PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Broadway's 'Something Rotten' gets reinvented by Canada's Stratford Festival " and it's hysterical by Johnny Oleksinski

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 08:59AM[SHARE]
Saturday, October 12, 2024

Fleetwood Mac producer sues Tony Award-winning Broadway play that Brad Pitt owns the film rights to by Johnny Oleksinski

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:14PM[SHARE]
Thursday, October 10, 2024

'Our Town' review: Bland Broadway revival starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes doesn't hit home by Johnny Oleksinski

Director Kenny Leon's staging of "Our Town" is among the most uninvolving and anemic our critic has ever seen.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:05PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Broadway's Ken Page, star of 'Cats' and 'The Wiz', dead at 70 by Johnny Oleksinski

Ken Page, the formidable Broadway actor and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film "The Nightmare Before Christmas," has died.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 12:17PM[SHARE]
Monday, September 30, 2024

'McNeal' review: Robert Downey Jr.'s awful Broadway play about AI is a total wipeout by Johnny Oleksinski

The tiresome Broadway play "McNeal," starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag's favorite topic " AI.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:01PM[SHARE]

Nicole Scherzinger emerges from theater in nightgown, covered in 'blood' by Johnny Oleksinski

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.…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 06:30PM[SHARE]

Tony-winning Broadway star Gavin Creel dead at 48 by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:18PM[SHARE]
Sunday, September 29, 2024

'Hills of California' review: A cutthroat new stage mother on Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:00PM[SHARE]
Monday, August 12, 2024

'Once Upon a Mattress' review: Sutton Foster is a perfect princess on Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

A show and a star have aligned. Mary Rodgers' 1959 musical comedy has found Sutton Foster.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 10:00PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 10, 2024

Disney's 'Greatest Showman' stage musical will play London in 2026 by Johnny Oleksinski

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:05AM[SHARE]
Monday, August 5, 2024

'Job' review: A millennial cracks in tense Broadway two-hander by Johnny Oleksinski

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…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 01:08PM[SHARE]
Saturday, July 27, 2024

The sensational 'Oh, Mary!' proves you can't predict a Broadway hit by Johnny Oleksinski

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.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:06AM[SHARE]
Thursday, July 11, 2024

'Oh, Mary!' review: The funniest show on Broadway by Johnny Oleksinski

The preposterously enjoyable non-musical play does the impossible "thanks to the irrepressible comic genius of playwright and actor Cole Escola.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM[SHARE]
Saturday, June 29, 2024

Nancy Pelosi and AOC play 'N/A' is a predictable snooze by Johnny Oleksinski

The behind-closed-doors scenes pitting the Speaker of the House against the upstart New York congresswoman are more like Disney's Hall of Presidents " reverential and robotic " than Capitol …

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:59AM[SHARE]
Thursday, June 20, 2024

'Cats: The Jellicle Ball' review: The most fun you'll have at the theater this summer by Johnny Oleksinski

The hottest show in town is… "Cats"? Nobody's said that since around 1984.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:18PM[SHARE]
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

How NYC's massive Palace Theater was lifted into the air: 'An inch an hour' by Johnny Oleksinski

The iconic Broadway venue that's played host to such luminaries as Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and Bette Midler was dramatically lifted 30 feet.

SOURCE: The New York Post at 04:10PM[SHARE]
Monday, June 17, 2024
Sunday, June 16, 2024

'Outsiders' knocks out 'Hell's Kitchen' at an otherwise dull Tony Awards by Johnny Oleksinski

They weren't outsiders on Sunday night. In a neck-and-neck race, the fantastic new musical "The Outsiders" ultimately took home the coveted Best Musical trophy at the Tony Awards, honoring t…

SOURCE: The New York Post at 11:52PM[SHARE]

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Jun 12, 2025: Call Me Izzy - Studio 54
Sep 16, 2025: Art - Music Box Theatre
Oct 08, 2025: Beetlejuice - Palace Theatre
Nov 13, 2025: Oedipus - Studio 54
Nov 16, 2025: Chess - Imperial Theatre
Mar 23, 2026: Giant - Music Box Theatre
Apr 06, 2026: Becky Shaw - Hayes Theater
Apr 16, 2026: Proof - Booth Theatre
Apr 26, 2026: Drama Desk Cut-Off