Nick Jonas garners mixed reviews for new Broadway show

Nick Jonas has been widely panned for his latest stage performance.

Jonas is currently starring in the Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years. The theatrical revival also stars Tony winner Adrienne Warren.

The production's official opening took place on Sunday evening at the Hudson Theatre in New York City.

The Last Five Years explores the five-year relationship between mismatched couple Jamie Wellerstein (Jonas), a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt (Warren), a struggling actor.

Time Out reviewed the show: "The problem is not that Jonas can't sing the part, though he doesn't sing it especially well. It's that the persona he has crafted over time - the ingratiating moves, mild pop riffs and bouncy strut of a cute, athletic, slightly cocky but basically nice All-American boy next door - are at a polar distance from what he is asked to play."

Vulture agreed, "It's not his voice that lets him down; it's the lack of contours in his character."

New York Theatre opined, "Adrienne Warren and Nick Jonas, who are appealing and talented singers, just don't seem like a match for these roles, or for each other."

Jonas began acting on Broadway at the age of seven, playing Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol. He has since appeared in a raft of shows including The Sound of Music, Les Miserables and Hairspray.