Scheck on the Arts

The ever curmudgeonly Jackie Hoffman delivers her unique brand of comic venom in Old Woman, New Material, her hiliarious new show at 54 Below. To read my New York Post review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The Lincoln Center Festival's production of Monkey: Journey to the West adapts an ancient Chinese folktale with striking theatrical imagination. To read my New York Post story on the show, click here.

This Great Country is the experimental theater troupe 400 Highwaymen's untraditional take on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. To read my New York Post story on this show being performed at the South Street Seaport, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Absence, about a woman whose unborn child seemingly disappears overnight, is the latest example of the found-footage horror film genre. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

59E59 Theaters' annual East to Edinburgh Festival provides a sneak peak of some of the U.S. offerings to be presented at the largest arts festival in the world. To read my New York Post feature story about the event, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Tarell Alvin McCraney's moving new play Choir Boy examines the internal tensions at an all-black prep school. To read my New York Post review, click here.

----Frank Scheck