Scheck on the Arts

The songs of pop star Britney Spears fuel Once Upon a One More Time, the latest campy Broadway musical exercise in fairy tale revisionism. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Constantine Maroulis plays legendary disc jockey Alan Freed in the new Off-Broadway jukebox musical Rock & Roll Man, also featuring Joe Pantoliano. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

John Rubinstein delivers a compelling turn in the solo biographical Off-Broadway drama Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground, about the 34th president. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.
------Frank Scheck

Juliet Stevenson plays the title role in The Doctor, Robert Ickes' freewheeling adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1912 play Professor Bernhardi. To read my New York Stage Review review of the show imported from London by the Park Avenue Armory, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Illusionist Steve Cuiffo collaborates with playwright Lucas Hnath for A Simulacrum, one-man show deconstructing magic. To read my New York Stage Review review of the show receiving its world premiere at Atlantic Theater Company, click here.

Two-time Oscar winner Glenda Jackson, who spent 23 years as a member of the U.K. parliament before returning to Broadway and winning a Tony Award in 2018, has died. To read my Hollywood Reporter tribute, click here.