Scheck on the Arts

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon and Chief of Staff Reince Priebus made a joint appearance Friday at CPAC to demonstrate that they really do get along. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones star in the car chase-driven thriller Collide, also featuring Anthony Hopkins and Ben Kingsley as rival gangsters. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Kate Walsh returns to the New York stage in If I Forget, a new drama by 'Dear Evan Hanson' book writer Steven Levenson about a family dealing with personal and political issues. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A teenager struggles to live with the aftermath of a horrific crime in Kid Victory, the new musical by legendary composer John Kander and Greg Pierce. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, the author of such acclaimed plays as An Octoroon and Gloria, now delivers Everybody, an experimental modern riff on the 15th-century morality play Everyman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A young Irish woman goes on a road trip to see her institutionalized father in My Name is Emily, Simon Fitzmaurie's feature debut. To read my Hollyood Reporter review, click here.

Three undocumented Bronx high school students struggle to avoid deportation in Matthew Newton's indie drama From Nowhere. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Bill Maher had a particularly politically incorrect guest on Friday's Real Time With Bill Maher episode: right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, a senior editor at Breitbart News. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Marin Ireland plays a mother devastated by gun violence in Martin Zimmerman's one-person play On the Exhale. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck