Scheck on the Arts

A young couple decide to reeneact their sexual histories before getting married in the provocatively titled Off-Broadway play Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The indie film drama X/Y explores the dysfunctional romantic lives of four interconnected New Yorkers. To read my Hollywood Reporter of this film receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

Corey Stoll (House of Cards) plays a washed-up boxer who gets involved with underworld figures in Glass Chin, world premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Neil Patrick Harris plays an East German transgender rocker in the new Broadway production of John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch. To read my review, click here.

Sitcom veterans and real-life married couple Nick Offerman and Megan Mullally co-star in the new play Annapurna. To read my New York Post review, click here.

A schlubby loser becomes a ladykiller vampire in Onur Turkel's horror comedy Summer of Blood. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film which received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Bullets Over Broadway, based on the Woody Allen film and directed by Susan Stroman, is one of the most buzzed-about Broadway musicals of the season. To read my review, click here.

You'll mingle with ghosts at Speakeasy Dollhouse: The Brothers Booth, a fascinating new immersive theater piece being performed at the historic Players Club off Gramercy Park. To read my New York Post feature story on the production, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The new two-character musical A Second Chance, being presented at the Public Theater, depicts the tentative romance between two-middle aged people with emotional baggage. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The Tranport Group's innovative Off-Broadway revival of the classic I Remember Mama features ten elderly veteran actresses playing all 23 roles. To read my New York Post review, click here.

A mentally ill young woman attempts to prove herself innocent of murder in the psychological film thriller Nothing Without You. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Idina Menzel plays a character whose life goes off in vastly different directions in If/Then, the new Broadway musical by Next to Normal creators Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. To read my review, click here.

Cirque du Soleil has returned with their latest extravaganza Amaluna, directed by Diane Paulus (Pippin, Hair). To read my New York Post review, click here.

Singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, is about to make her cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle. To read my New York Post interview with the talented up-and-comer, click here.

------Frank Scheck