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 decade ago.

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.  

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? 

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 makes his ca…

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 deservedly won the Tony …

Post critic Johnny Oleksinski gives his predictions on who will win big at Sunday night's Tony Awards.

Two big shows were fuming Tuesday that they’re being left out of the Tony Awards broadcast on CBS Sunday night: “Boop! The Betty Boop Musical” and “Smash.”

There was a torrent of activity in the race to the Tony Awards on June 8 — a lot of campaigning, some award shake-ups and the Broadway League’s Spring Road Conference.

There’s one building on Broadway Andrew Lloyd Webber has had his eye on for years.

“Sunset” aficionados will hear a difference on Broadway: An entire number has been scrapped: “The Lady’s Paying.” 

A week ago, the starkly reimagined production of "Sunset Boulevard" deservedly scored seven Tony Award nominations, including for Best Revival, the indomitable Scherzinger, her exciting leading man Tom Francis …

Peters is back on Broadway this season after seven years away, alongside Lea Salonga and 15 others in a wonderful revue of the late composer’s work called “Old Friends.” 

Denzel Washington, Kieran Culkin and Robert Downey Jr. were rightly snubbed by the Tony Award nominations, while smaller shows like "Maybe Happy Ending" and "Oh, Mary!" soared.

The corpse musical “Dead Outlaw,” which opened Sunday at the Longacre Theatre, has been schlepped from the cool and intimate Minetta Lane Theater in Greenwich Village to a big Broadway house uptown. It, too…

Director Alex Timbers and his irrepressible star Jonathan Groff have made magic with the Bobby Darin musical “Just in Time,” which opened Saturday night at the Circle in the Square Theatre.

This slaphappy, reworked revival of “The Pirates of Penzance,” which opened Thursday night on Broadway, shifts the absurd action some 2,800 nautical miles west to New Orleans, Louisiana. 

All of the blaring special effects are in service of a throwaway play in which the real villain ain't Vecna — it's the writing.

“Floyd Collins,” the real story of a trapped Kentucky cave explorer, is a musical split in two — and not for the better.

Kimberly Belflower’s often entertaining, mostly clever, frequently phony dramedy that opened Monday night at the Booth Theatre could have used another draft. 

The best part of venturing out into jam-packed Times Square in the busy spring? Venturing inside into a somewhat less jam-packed bar or restaurant for a meal, a martini — and a star spotting.

“Let’s Be Bad” is a song from the Broadway musical “Smash.” It is also the production's motto.

It’s a rare and special experience to watch performers of the calibre of Peters and co-stars like Lea Salonga sing Sondheim while backed by a sensational 14-piece orchestra in an intimate room that seats just…

Jasmine Amy Rogers, a 25-year-old actress, makes a marvelous Broadway debut in the Betty Boop musical “Boop.”

You’re five years older by curtain call. 

Poor Betty was a victim of the Hays Code, or the Motion Picture Production Code, which in 1934 banned profanity and curtailed violence and sexual content in movies — even animated movies.

It comes as a surprise that the impression left by the dusty historical drama as the audience pours out onto Broadway is so small and fleeting. Good Night, and What’s For Dinner?

David Mamet's should-be scorcher of a story about sleazy, lying, ruthless Chicago real-estate salesmen who will commit crimes and ruin lives to close a deal is as laid-back as a work-from-home Friday.

In a flourish of theatrical magic, with the help of mind-boggling technology, the surely exhausted “Succession” star Sarah Snook plays 26 roles in “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” which opened Thursday nig…

Like any Broadway show, the musical “Operation Mincemeat” sells merchandise and drinks at intermission. Might I also suggest Adderall?

“Buena Vista Social Club,” the new musical that opened Wednesday night at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre, is practically a jumbo jet to Havana.

This bombshell-littered house belongs to the Jaspers, a powerful black political dynasty whose controversies and scandals come down faster than the blizzard outside their window.

While the crowd has come for Paul, at the end of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, which opened Tuesday night in Brooklyn, they leave raving about Patsy Ferran.

This is not a victory for classics. It’s a war on your wallet.

Too bad the Broadway show named after a giant tree is a toothpick. 

For starters, there are three new musical comedies about corpses: “Dead Outlaw,” “Operation Mincemeat” and “Death Becomes Her.”

Already playing in New York, London, Sydney and Toronto, when "Titanique" opens its fifth production in Chicago in May, it will have as many concurrent runs as “Hamilton.”

Linda Lavin, who died Sunday at age 87, was a captivating Broadway star beloved by audiences for her electrifying contradictions.

Ticket-buyers are being charged as much as $800 a pop some weeks for what is little more than a sedate staged reading of New Yorker cartoon captions uttered by celebrities.

With stop-start direction from George C. Wolfe, the musical runs out of gas early on.

“The Devil Wears Prada,” Elton John’s horrid musical that crashed and burned two years ago in Chicago, is giving it a second go in London.

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

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 it’s g…

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What an impressive, heart-stopping Broadway debut from the young British star of Netflix’s “Heartstopper.”

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

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

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 Festival in Ontario, Can…

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, the Fleetwo…

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

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

The tiresome Broadway play “McNeal,” starring Robert Downey Jr. at Lincoln Center, is about every windbag’s favorite topic — AI.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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 Friday night.  T…

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 “meaningful work,…

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.

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

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 Hill.

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

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

“No more Carlyle! No more Carlyle!,” shouted Billy Porter. 

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 the best of Bro…

It’s not just the humidity that has Midtown Manhattan sweating bullets -- it’s the Tony Awards.

If you thought Broadway was Hollywood’s classier cousin, you thought wrong.