Scheck on the Arts

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 s… more »

Kevin Asch's (Holy Rollers) sophomore film Affluenza is a teen-oriented, modern-day variation on The Great Gatsby. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. -----Frank Scheck more »

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. ---… more »

A woman and young girl struggle to survive in the African desert while being pursued by murderous poachers in the action-adventure film Heatstroke. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. -----Frank Scheck more »

Multi-hyphenate performer Nick Cannon makes his film directorial debut with School Dance, a raucous, hip-hip infusted teen sex comedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here. -----Frank Scheck more »