Scheck on the Arts

Douglas Carter Beane’s Off-Broadway comedy Fairycakes, featuring a formidable cast, mashes up Shakespeare and fairy tales and does neither any favors. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The former frontman of the Talking Heads returns to Broadway with David Byrne's American Utopia, his Tony Award-winning show of music and dance. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Adam Godley, Simon Russell Beale and Adrian Lester deliver stupendous performances in the brilliantly staged, decades-spanning theatrical saga The Lehman Trilogy, finally making its Broadway debut. To read my New York Stage Review review, click here.

Carlson Young plays a young woman who enters an alternate universe in her directorial debut The Blazing World, also featuring Udo Kier, Dermot Mulroney and Vinessa Shaw. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Keenan Scott II’s poetic drama Thoughts of a Colored Man resonates with urgency and heart, and mark the debut of an important new dramatic voice. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play that recently opened on Broadway, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Douglas Lyons' Broadway comedy Chicken & Biscuits, about family dysfunction rearing its ugly head at a funeral, offers theatrical comfort food but empty calories. To read my review in New York Stage Review, click here.

------Frank Scheck