Scheck on the Arts

Trevor Nunn directs Christian Camargo in the Theater for a New Audience's production of  Pericles, Shakespeare's rarely performed late romance. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A teenage runaway cons her way into a job as a caregiver for an autistic child in Janet Grillo's drama Jack of the Red Hearts. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz battered, but did not beat, Donald Trump in the latest contentious GOP debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.

An Egyptian god battles his vengeful uncle with the aid of a mortal in the fantasy-adventure film Gods of Egypt. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The documentary Rolling Papers chronicles the efforts of the Denver Post's first-ever "marijuana editor" as he covers the new beat after the state legalizes the drug. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

A matriarch suffers from worsening dementia in Dot, a comedy/drama written by Fear the Walking Dead actor Colman Domingo. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the show at Off-Broadway's Vineyard Theatre, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Zachary Quinto and Robin Tunney star in Smokefall, Noah Haidle's dark comedy receiving its New York City premiere by Off-Broadway's MCC Theater. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Mare Winningham and Peter Friedman play the parents of a teenage girl composing a full-length requiem in Greg Pierce's play Her Requiem, receiving its world premiere at Lincoln Center's LCT3. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck