Scheck on the Arts

After a year in hibernation, comedian Kathy Griffin is back with a vengenace with her Laugh Your Head Off tour. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Stephen Rea plays a Irish Protestant Unionist who becomes convinced that his infant granddaughter is actually Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Cyprus Avenue, David Ireland's violent absurdist comedy previously seen at Dublin's Abbey Theatre and London's Royal Court. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Idina Menzel plays a recently divorced woman visiting her wealthy fashion designer father in Skintight, the new play by Joshua Harmon, author of Bad Jews and Significant Others. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Fresh off her recent, controversial performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, comedian Michelle Wolf steered clear of politics during her set at Stand Up and Sing for the Arts, a Lincoln center benefit also featuring comedians Michael Che and Demetri Martin and singer Patina Miller. To read my Hollywood Reporter article, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A young woman begins to suspect a houseguest of being a murderer in Jason Saltiel's psychological thriller Beach House. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck