Scheck on the Arts

The heroic geologist at the center of 2015's The Wave returns to predict another calamity in John Andres Andersen's disaster movie sequel The Quake. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

A different guest performer, given no preparation or rehearsal, appears alongside the playwright at every performance of Nassim Soleimanpour's experimental theater piece Nassim. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Fifteen years after they competed on American Idol, Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken reunite for Ruben & Clay's First Annual Christmas Show, a holiday-themed Broadway variety show. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre revives Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, the 2004 satirical, riches-to-rags comedy by Lynn Nottage, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author of Ruined and Sweat. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Milo Gibson (son of Mel) stars in All the Devil's Men, Matthew Hope's thriller about a team of Special Ops agents trying to take down a terrorist. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Sexual liaisons between mixed-race couples during the slavery era form the centerpiece of Slave Play, a provocative world-premiere satirical work from award-winning playwright Jeremy O. Harris. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Three-time Oscar nominee Stephen Daldry co-directs The Jungle, the acclaimed London import immersively recreating the real-life camp in Calais that served as a temporary home to thousands of refugees. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck