Scheck on the Arts

A couple living in a futuristic society open their home to a stranger in The Ruins of Civilization, Penelope Skinner's new drama being given its world premiere at the Manhattan Theatre Club. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Cary Elwes (The Princess Bride) play a cheating husband trapped in a small town by malevolent locals in the dark comedy A Bit of Bad Luck. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump kissed and made up in her primetime interview special, Megyn Kelly Presents,  that also included interviews with Laverne Cox, Robert Shapiro and Michael Douglas. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event, click here.

Rupert Everett stars in the new production of The Judas Kiss, David Hare's 1998 play about Oscar Wilde. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Indecent, Paula Vogel's new play with music, tells the story behind Sholem Asch's controversial 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Ethan Peck, son of Gregory, stars in The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, a horror film riff on the Brothers Grimm classic. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Robbers unwittingly break into the home of a serial killer in Viet Nguyen's horror comedy Crush the Skull. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Olivia Wilde directed an all-star cast in a reading of Woody Allen's screenplay Hannah and Her Sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the sold-out Live Read event, click here.

Thomas Kail (Hamilton) directes Daphne's Dive, the new drama from Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes tracking the patrons of a Philadelphia bar over nearly two decades. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Melissa Errico stars in the Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean's classic 1955 film Summertime. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi profiles a homeless woman known as "The Queen of Santa Monica." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck