Scheck on the Arts

The ever-busy, multi-talented James Franco makes his stage directorial debut with Robert Boswell's The Long Shrift, now receiving its world premiere at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

This year's 11th edition of the annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) includes musicals about such disparate topics as Bill Clinton, Mother Jones, the Mexican Revolution,  Oprah Winfrey and Civil War veterans. To read my New York Post feature story about the festival, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Japan's famed Kabuki troupe Heisei Nakamura-za kicked off this year's Lincoln Center Festival with the rollicking melodrama Kaidan Chibusa No Enoki, based on a classic 19th century Japanese ghost story. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The endlessly prolific British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has returned to our shores with the U.S. premiere of Arrivals & Departures. To read my New York Post review of the Off-Broadway production, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Singer actress Megan Hilty of Broadway (9 to 5: The Musical, Wicked) and TV fame (Smash) is making her New York City cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle. To read my New York Post review, click here.

----Frank Scheck