Scheck on the Arts

Parker Posey heads the cast of The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, Thomas Bradshaw's cheaply vulgar modern-day adaptation of Chekhov's classic. To read my New York Stage Review review of the production being presented by Off-Broadway's The New Group, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, Anne Kauffman's revival of the long-neglected work by Lorraine Hansberry, author of A Raisin in the Sun. To read my New York Stage Review of the production being presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Idris Elba reprises his role as troubled London detective John Luther on the big screen in Luther: The Fallen Sun, also featuring Cynthia Erivo and Andy Serkis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are among the producers of the new documentary Kiss the Future, about the underground music scene during the Siege of Sarajevo and U2's 1997 concert there. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that recently premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Norbert Leo Butz and Mary Beth Peil are featured in the new musical Cornelia Street, written by Simon Stephens and scored by American Music Club's Mark Eitzel. To read my New York Stage Review review of the Off-Broadway show, click here.

------Frank Scheck