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Welcome to this destination for reviews, news and musings on Theater, Film and Culture (Music, Cabaret, Books and more) by veteran arts writer and New York Post/Hollywood Reporter critic Frank Scheck

Friday, February 24, 2012

Oscar winner F. Murray Abraham stars in the title role of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, now playing Off-Broadway. To read what I have to say about it, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Thursday, February 23, 2012

A Long Island electrician channels the spirit of Ralph Waldo Emerson in the whimsical new comedy Call Me Waldo. To read my review in today's New York Post, click here.

The Wooster Group and director Richard Maxwell have collaborated on a new production of Eugene O'Neill's Early Plays. To read my review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

 

Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012

An intriguing drama about a renowned author accused of plagiarism  is now playing Off-Broadway. To read my New York Post review of Poetic License, click here.

------Frank Scheck

 

Monday, February 20, 2012

I've reviewed Mind Over Manhattan, the new show by mentalist Marc Salem, in today's New York Post. But unless you can read my mind, to know what I think about it you'll have to click here.

-----Frank Scheck

 

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Captain Kirk is on Broadway! To read my Hollywood Reporter review of  William Shatner's one-man show Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, click here.

I don't often deliver outright pans. But I made an exception for the new Off-Broadway drama A Map of Virtue. To read my New York Post review, click here.