Scheck on the Arts

The endlessly prolific British playwright Alan Ayckbourn has returned to our shores with the U.S. premiere of Arrivals & Departures. To read my New York Post review of the Off-Broadway production, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Michael Shannon delivers a superb performance in the new Off-Broadway production of Eugene Ionesco's The Killer, receiving its first New York production since its 1960 premiere. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Petra Costa's deeply moving documentary Elena concerns her efforts to come to terms with her older sister's suicide. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Singer actress Megan Hilty of Broadway (9 to 5: The Musical, Wicked) and TV fame (Smash) is making her New York City cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle. To read my New York Post review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

A middle-aged film projectionist and his elderly mother escape war-torn Serbia in Momcilo Mrdakovic's black comedy Mamarosh. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

----Frank Scheck