Scheck on the Arts

The Roundabout Theatre Company is presenting a Broadway revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rupert Holmes' 1985 musical based on an unfinished novel by Charles Dickens. To read my review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A top-flight cast including Sigourney Weaver, David Hyde Pierce and Kristine Nielsen star in Christopher Durang's new Chekhov-inspired comedy Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. To read my review of this Lincoln Center production, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

For today, four new film reviews from the Hollywood Reporter:

Christmas in Compton is an early urban-themed holiday offering that's short on both laughs and holiday spirit. To read my review click here.

Bernadette Peters shines as a failed theatrical diva in the otherwise turgid family drama Coming Up Roses. To read my review, click here.

Burn chronicles a year in the lives of Detroit firefighters desperately struggling to put out the conflagrations plaguing the troubled metropolis. To read my review, click here.

An expatraite Guatemalan artist attempts to stage an arts festival in his troubled native country in The Return of Lencho. To read my review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

The instrumental group Black Violin brings an invigorating fusion of hip-hop, jazz and classical music to young audiences. To read my New York Post review of their show at the New Victory Theatre, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Presented by the National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene, The Golden Land is an entertaining musical depicton of the Jewish immigrant experience. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Lunch is an entertaining documentary about the bi-weekly lunches shared by a group of elderly film and television comedy veterans. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck