Scheck on the Arts

Susan Froemke's documentary The Opera House recounts the story of the Metropolitan Opera's move to its Lincoln Center home. To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film recently shown at the New York Film Festival, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Megyn Kelly didn't exactly have a stellar premiere week of her new NBC Show Megyn Kelly Today. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook, click here.

Scott Carter's The Gospel According to Thomas Jefferson, Charles Dickens and Count Leo Tolstoy: Discord imagines an encounter among the three historical titans in the afterlife. To read my Hollywood
Reporter review of the off-Broadway play, click here.

Danny Clinch's documentary Let's Play Two combines footage of Pearl Jam performing at Wrigley Field with the story of the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Ellen Burstyn plays Jacques in John Doyle's staging of Shakespeare's As You Like It, featuring original music by Wicked composer Stephen Schwartz. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Twyla Tharp Dance, at the Joyce Theater, features the world premiere of her new work "Dylan Love Songs" and an appearance by the legendary choreographer herself. To read my review, click here.

Miranda Bailey's documentary The Pathological Optimist profiles Andrew Wakefield, the controversial British physician who claimes that the MMR vaccine causes autism. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Mark van Wijk's documentary Prosperity follows "urban monk" Pedram Shojai as he profiles companies and individuals engaged in socially conscious business practices. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Peter Friedman and Tony Award winner Deanna Dunagan star in The Treasurer, Max Posner's play about a son assuming control of his elderly mother's finances. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the drama directed by David Cromer, click here.

Terrifying events occur when a young couple moves into a guesthouse in Rick Bieber's horror film Don't Sleep. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The documentary Steve McQueen: American Icon, narrated by Gary Sinise, shines a spotlight on the actor's late-in-life religiosity. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck