Scheck on the Arts

The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical,  the new musical by Be More Chill author Joe Tracz and composer Rob Rokicki, adapts the first book in Rick Riordan's best-selling YA fantasy series. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone's documentary The Elephant Queen chronicles the experiences of an elephant matriarch and her herd as they journey across the savannah in search of water. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

For the first time, newly annointed front-runner Elizabeth Warren took the hot seat at the latest Democratic presidential debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Tony Award winners David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori collaborate on Soft Power, a new "musical-within-a-play" satirizing Chinese-American relations and featuring a post-election Hillary Clinton as a major character. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A suicide victim mysteriously comes back to life in The Dead Center, Billy Senese's horror thriller starring acclaimed indie filmmaker Shane Carruth. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----------Frank Scheck

Robin McKenna's documentary Gift, based on Lewis Hyde's classic book The Gift: Creativity and the Modern World, explores the parallels between creativity and gift-giving. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Gary Oldman and Emily Mortimer star in Mary, Michael Goi's horror film about a family terrorized by a haunted ship. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Three-time Tony nominee Joshua Henry stars in The Wrong Man, the world premiere musical written by 2016 BMI Songwriter of the Year Ross Golan, about a man framed for a murder he didn't commit. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

In Brad Anderson's thriller Fractured, Sam Worthington plays a man desperately searching for his wife and child after they go missing in a hospital. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck