Johnny Oleksinski
Background
Johnny Oleksinski has been The Post’s entertainment critic, its leading voice on movies and th🌞eater, since 2018. He began at The Post as an entertainment reporter in 2015. Before moving to New York, he was a theater writer/editor at the Chicago Tribune and was chief theater critic of Newcity Chicago. He is a voting member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. Johnny majored in theater at Illinois State University. He lives in the East Village, and can be heard every Tuesday morning at 9:30 on WOR Radio.
Latest Articles
Bruce Springsteen's lightning speed writing 'Letter to You' shocked Steven Van Zandt: 'Never happens'
Featuring songs such as “Burnin’ Train,” “Last Man Standin😼g” and “Ghosts,” the record is the basis🎐 of Springsteen’s current world tour, the band's first in more than six years, which...
The true story of how an active serial killer appeared on 'The Dating Game' television show
The story of serial killer Rodney Alcala — the so-called "Dating Game Killer" who actually appeared on and won the show — has been turned into a new movie calle🃏d...
'Woman of The Hour' review: A terrifying serial killer story
“Woman of the Hour,” starring and direct﷽ed by Anna Kendrick, is based on the 1970s crimes of Rodne♕y Alcala -- the Dating Game Killer -- who may have murdered as many as...
Nicole Scherzinger makes audience all but levitate in scorching, brilliant 'Sunset Boulevard' Broadway revival
Andrew Lloyd Webber's “Sun👍set Boulevard,” which opened Sunday night at the St. James Theatre, is Broadway’s most exhilarating show in years
Little Stevie talks Springsteen and the E Street Band: 'We're not just getting older — we're getting better'
When Bru🎉ce Springsteen and the E Street Band reunited in a New Jersey music room in 2023, Little Stevie says the vibe was a little different.
'Smile 2' actor looks terrifyingly like Hollywood royalty dad
He’s a “Shini꧟ng” star — just like dad.
Stripper Cinderella story is one of th🍰e best movies of the year
It’s easy to fall hard for Mikey Madison in “Anora,” d🦄irector Sean Bake♚r’s four-star film about a Brooklyn exotic dancer.
A Broadway dud gets reinvented in Canada — and it's hysterical
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...
'It's What's Inside' review: Hot Netflix movie is smart sci-fi that keeps you guessing
Think of “It’s What’s Inside,” the dark science-fiction comedy film on Netflix, as a Freakier Friday, with more swapped bodies, d🧔rugs, sex and a boatload ofꦐ millennial anxiety.
Fleetwood Mac producer sues Tony Award-winning Broadway play♐ that Brad Pitt owns the film rights to
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 Caillat,...
'Our Town' review: Bland Broadway revival starring Jim Parsons and Katie Holmes doesn't hit home
Director Kenny Leon’s staging of “Our Town” is among the most un🎀involving and anemic our critic has ever seen.
'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' turns 50: Tales of pot, violent injuries and real human skeletons that cursed the set
The 1974 horror classic was created🌊 by a group of young, inexperienced filmmakers and actors who were frequently high, ov꧅er-budget and laissez-faire about personal safety.
Johnny Depp's NYC art exhibit is one huge, derivative, delusional ego bath
The 61-year-old actor’s ego bath, er, exhibition, which opened Friday on West 27th Stree♛t, has a comically broad title: “A Bunch of Stuff.”
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix sing for no reason in pointless 'Joker: Folie a Deux' sequel
Director Todd Phillips somehow saw this as a logical🍌 opportunity for the pair to perform a Broadway musical’s worth of songs — a good fifteen, all told.
Broadway's Ken Page, star of 'Cats' and 'The Wiz', dead at 70
Ken 𓄧Page, the formidable Broadway actor🎀 and voice of Oogie Boogie in the film “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died.
Robert Downey Jr.'s awful Broadway play about AI is a total wipeout
The tire🧜some Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag🎉’s favorite topic — AI.
Nicole Scherzinger emerges from theater in nightgown, covered in 'blood'
No, the former Pussycat Doll didn’t get into a fistfight in Shubert Alley, she’s the star of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s B♐roadway musical “Sunset Blvd.,” which started previews last weekend.
Beloved Tony-winning Broadway star dead at 48 ⛦
Gavin Creel, the T🌃ony Award-winning star of Broadway musicals sꦿuch as “Hello, Dolly!” and “Hair,” died Monday in Manhattan, his partner confirmed. He was 48.
'Hills of California' review: A cutthroat new stage mother on Broadway
At the Broadhurst Theatre, where Jez Butterwor🧔th’s new play “The Hills of California” opened on Sunday night, lives Laura Donnelly's stern and captivating Veronica Webb.
Dana Carvey makes a brilliant, doddering Joe Biden on 'SNL' premiere
It was a big and brilliant move to bring back “SNL” legend Carvey as a hilarious Preღsident Biden 🍎