Scheck on the Arts

The experimental theater group Elevator Repair Service, famed for its marathon F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation Gatz, delivers Everyone's Fine with Virginia Woolf, an antic satire of Edward Albee's classic. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Wendell Pierce and Jurnee Smollett-Bell star in One Last Thing, Tim Rouhana's drama about a lonely man who finds his long-lost daughter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Lorna Tucker's documentary Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist chronicles the life and career of the famed British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Nicolas Cage plays a veteran cop caught up in a gunfight with well-armed bank robbers in the action thriller 211. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

During his appearrance with co-author James Patterson at NYU's Skirball Center to discuss their thriller The President is Missing, Bill Clinton faced questions about his past and the current political climate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

A wealthy financier offers to take over a struggling schoolteacher's investments in Dan Cody's Yacht, the new play by Anthony Giardina, author of The City of Conversation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Pop stars Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles are preparing to let their theater geek flags fly Sunday night when they co-host the Tony Awards. To read my Hollywood Reporter story featuring my interview with the two of them, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Tony Award nominee Tony Shalhoub recently spoke to me about his role in the acclaimed musical The Band's Visit. To read my Hollywood Reporter interview with the star of TV's Monk, click here.

------Frank Scheck