Scheck on the Arts

Comedian Judy Gold talks about her influences and the corrosive effects of censorship on comedy in her Off-Broadway one-person show Yes, I Can Say That! To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Keith Bunin's play The Coast Starlight revolves around six train passengers who imagine what they might have said to each other during an overnight journey. To read my New York Stage Review review of the show currently playing at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Jessica Chastain stars in a radically minimalist staging of Ibsen's classic A Doll's House on Broadway. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

A not-so-tall teenager sets out to prove he can dunk a basketball in the charming new Disney+ film Chang Can Dunk, from writer-director Jingyi Shao. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Parker Posey heads the cast of The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, Thomas Bradshaw's cheaply vulgar modern-day adaptation of Chekhov's classic. To read my New York Stage Review review of the production being presented by Off-Broadway's The New Group, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Anne Kauffman's revival of the long-neglected work by Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. To read my New York Stage Review of the production being presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, click here.

------Frank Scheck