Scheck on the Arts

Joe Iconis and Joe Tracz's musical Be More Chill, about a teenager who ingests a pill-sized supercomputer to boost his popularity, has arrived on Broadway after becoming an internet sensation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

After suffering an untimely death, a woman is sent back to the land of the living to help others in James Bird's fantasy drama We Are Boats. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Giacomo Durzi's documentary Ferrante Fever examines the literary and critical success of the anonymous Italian author who goes by the name Elena Ferrante. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Gabrielle Brady's impressionistic documentary Island of the Hungry Ghosts is set on Christmas Island, the location of an Australian detention center for refugees. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Alan Cumming, Ronald Peet and Charlayne Woodard star in "Daddy,"  Jeremy O. Harris' new play about the battle of wills between a wealthy, white Los Angeles art collector and the mother of his much younger, black artist lover. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Debra Jo Rupp plays a conservative Southern baker asked to create a wedding cake for her lesbian goddaughter in The Cake, the new comedy by This is Us writer Bekah Brunstetter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Two men become caught up in a deadly cat-and-mouse game while cruising on a hiking trail in Matthew Montgomery's thriller Devil's Path. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck