Scheck on the Arts

The new musical Dogfight is based on the acclaimed 1991 film starring the late River Phoenix and Lili Taylor. To read my review of this Second Stage Theatre production, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Peter Dinklage stars in a delightful, all-male production of Moliere's The Imaginary Invalid at Bard's SummerScape. To read my New York Post review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The new indie film Ponies conerns a trio of gamblers at an OTB parlor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Deconstructing Dad: The Music, Machines and Mystery of Raymond Scott is filmmaker Stan Warnow's documentary about his famed composer/inventor father. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The struggles of aspiring baseball players in the Dominican Republic is examined in the new documentary Ballplayer: Pelotero. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Rio is a musical re-imagining of Oliver Twist, set in modern-day Brazil. To read my New York Post review of his show presented by the New York Musical Theater Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A very grown-up Lukas Haas (Witness) plays a rich drunken wastrel in the new indie film Crazy Eyes. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck