Scheck on the Arts

Adelaide Clemens plays a young scientist attempting to define the nature of consciousness in The Hard Problem, Tom Stoppard's latest brain-teaser play being givens its New York premiere at Lincoln Center. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jennifer Deschamps' documentary Inside Lehman Brothers recounts the stories of several Lehman Brothers employees turned whistleblowers. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at DOC NYC, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Siblings Tyne and Tim Daly star in Downstairs, Theresa Rebeck's thriller about the fraught relationship between an unhappy housewife and her possibly emotionally disturbed brother. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Ofir Trainin's documentary Family in Transition chronicles the effect on an Israeli clan when the father transitions into a woman. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Harry Mavromichalis' documentary Olympia delivers a distintinctly personal portrait of Academy Award-winning actress Olympia Dukakis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Aaron Paul and Emily Ratajkowski play a couple who find their relationship threatened by a mysterious stranger when they rent an Italian villa in David Levinson's thriller Welcome Home. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Raul Esparza plays the title role in John Doyle's Classic Stage Company revival of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Bertolt Brecht's rarely produced 1941 allegorical play about Hitler's rise to power. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A married South Korean man and a North Korean female defector enter into an ill-fated relationship in Wild Goose Dreams, Hansol Jung's surreal play, a co-production of the Public Theater and La Jolla Playhouse. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Michael C. Hall stars in a revival of Thom Pain (based on nothing), Will Eno's Pulitzer Prize finalist 2004 solo play in which a man delivers a stream-of-consciousness existential monologue. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Four old friends reunite for a beer drinking excursion that goes awry in David McCracken's Southern Gothic thriller Bullitt County. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck