Scheck on the Arts

The conceit of It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is that we're the audience for a live radio drama adaptation of Frank Capra's holiday film classic. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Amy Freed's Restoration Comedy is a modern pastiche of two classic 17th century works done in immersive theater style. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Caveh Zahedi's The Sheik and I is a satirical documentary about his ill-advised attempt to make a short film for a Middle East arts festival. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

The new off-Broadway rock musical Bare depicts the illicit relationship between two gay teens at a Catholic boarding school. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Irish singer/musician Phil Coulter delivers an intimate evening of music and stories in The Songs I Love So Well at the Irish Repertory Theatre. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The late Oscar-winning actor Ernest Borgnine delivers a wonderfully touching performance in his final film, The Man Who Shook the Hand of Vicente Fernandez. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A estranged father and daugher find themselves bonding in the Israeli dark comedy Off-White Lies. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

The legendary Rolling Stones celebrated their 50th anniversary with a tremendous concert at Brooklyn's Barclay Center in the first of their U.S. dates. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Stephen Fry is the engaging host of the documentary Wagner & Me, about the legendary composer's controversial legacy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Waiting for Lightning documents famed skateboarder Danny Way's daring leap over the Great Wall of China. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Bad Kids Go to Hell is a comic horror film riff on The Breakfast Club featuring that film's Judd Nelson. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Al Pacino stars in the terrific new Broadway revival of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Glengarry Glen Ross. To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Filmmaker Edward Burns returns to his working class, Irish-Catholic roots in his new comedy/drama The Fitzgerald Family Christmas. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck