Scheck on the Arts

Harry Mavromichalis' documentary Olympia delivers a distintinctly personal portrait of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Aaron Paul and Emily Ratajkowski play a couple who find their relationship threatened by a mysterious stranger when they rent an Italian villa in David Levinson's thriller Welcome Home. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Raul Esparza plays the title role in John Doyle's Classic Stage Company revival of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht's rarely produced 1941 allegorical play about Hitler's rise to power. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A married South Korean man and a North Korean female defector enter into an ill-fated relationship in Wild Goose Dreams, Hansol Jung's surreal play, a co-production of the Public Theater and La Jolla Playhouse. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Michael C. Hall stars in a revival of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno's Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 solo play in which a man delivers a stream-of-consciousness existential monologue. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Four old friends reunite for a beer drinking excursion that goes awry in David McCracken's Southern Gothic thriller Bullitt County. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Taye Diggs plays the father of a teenage boy who's shot to death by police officers in Wes Miller's thriller River Runs Red, also featuring John Cusack and George Lopez. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A young man gets recruited by a male escort agency catering to wealthy clients with intellectual tastes in Steve McLean's Postcards from London. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Keke Palmer plays a young woman who takes over her father's illicit business in Pimp, a gritty urban drama executive produced by Lee Daniels. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A closeted young woman brings her girlfriend home for Thanksgiving in Lez Bomb, a raucous comedy written, directed by and starring Jenna Laurenzo. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck