Johnny Oleksinski

“Chess,” with songs by Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus and “Evita” lyricist Tim Rice, is a two-hour-forty-five-minute slog through Siberia.

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

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 Thursday n…

The reboot of the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, now starring Glen Powell, marks an unnecessary return to 1987 and a repeat of the past 13 years of “Hunger Games” films. Not to mention “Battle Royale…

The star of “Christy,” the new biopic about boxer Christy Martin, spoke up for her film after a notably low first weekend theatrical gross of $1.3 million across more than 2,000 screens.

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

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.

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. 

It has been reported that tarnished actor Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to star in Paramount’s new “Christmas Carol” film as Ebeneezer Scrooge, a bitter old crank.

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.  

Phenomenally entertaining, zippy antics at the start quickly careen into a “betting is bad” morality crisis involving a ghost.  

Neil Young plans to scrap his entire music catalogue from Amazon, because he believes founder Jeff Bezos backs President Trump.

The Los keep getting Lo-er and Lo-er.

All the way through to 2023’s “Book Club: The Next Chapter” and 2024’s “Summer Camp,” Diane Keaton was still the same galvanic woman who played Annie Hall, Kay Adams-Corleone and Erica from “Someth…

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

Lighter-than-air “Ares” brings a welcome pulse of clarity and humanity to a franchise that heretofore has picked hard drives over heart.  

It’s “Sleep No More” meets “The Music of the Night.”

“Deliver Me From Nowhere,” the enlightening and entertaining movie starring Jeremy Allen White as The Boss, is all raw emotion. Director Scott Cooper’s film delves into Springsteen’s demons, strugg…

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.

Check your tires! The House of Mouse is roadkill.