Scheck on the Arts

TV sitcom veteran Mark Roberts (Two and a Half Men, Mike and Molly) takes a darkly satirical swipe at network television in his new play Enter at Forest Lawn, being presented by The Amoralists theater company. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The creation of the atom bomb is the unlikely subject of the new Off-Broadway musical Atomic. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones) makes his directorial debut in Road to Paloma, in which he plays a Native American being pursued by federal agents. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The ever-busy, multi-talented James Franco makes his stage directorial debut with Robert Boswell's The Long Shrift, now receiving its world premiere at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

This year's 11th edition of the annual New York Musical Theatre Festival (NYMF) includes musicals about such disparate topics as Bill Clinton, Mother Jones, the Mexican Revolution,  Oprah Winfrey and Civil War veterans. To read my New York Post feature story about the festival, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Kevin Asch's (Holy Rollers) sophomore film Affluenza is a teen-oriented, modern-day variation on The Great Gatsby. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck