Scheck on the Arts

The acclaimed French film Mouton, depicting the daily rhythms of life in a seaside town, recently received its U.S. premiere at New Directors/New Films. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Twilight Zone-style anthology film Locker 13 delivers five ominous episodes involving moral choices. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Idina Menzel plays a character whose life goes off in vastly different directions in If/Then, the new Broadway musical by Next to Normal creators Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt. To read my review, click here.

Cirque du Soleil has returned with their latest extravaganza Amaluna, directed by Diane Paulus (Pippin, Hair). To read my New York Post review, click here.

Singer/songwriter Alexa Ray Joel, the daughter of Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, is about to make her cabaret debut at the Cafe Carlyle. To read my New York Post interview with the talented up-and-comer, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The Fault Line Theatre has scored a coup with its world premiere production of Breathing Time, a new play by House of Cards creator Beau Willimon. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Seth Fisher's debut feature film Blumenthal concerns the personal travails of the surviving family members of a deceased playwright. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Famed burlesque stars and real-life married couple Mat Fraser and Julie Atlas Muz are co-starring in a new, erotic adaptation of Beauty and the Beast that has garnered raves upon  its Off-Broadway debut. To read my New York Post feature story about the fascinating duo, click here.

Joshua Overbay's debut feature As It Is in Heaven concerns a religious sect preparing for the end of days. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film which recently received its world premiere at the Cinequest film festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

A masked serial killer targets career criminals in the Australian thriller John Doe: Vigilante. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

The documentary From Both Sides of the Aegean examines the post-World War I Greco-Turkish "exchange of populations" that resulted in the displacement of large ethnic societies. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck