Scheck on the Arts

Puk Grasten's directorial debut, 37, is a fictional examination of the 1964 Kitty Genovese murder. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Kathy Bates, Glenn Close and Octavia Spencer star in The Great Gilly Hopkins, an adaptation of Katherine Paterson's acclaimed 1978 YA novel. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Comedians Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have brought their septuagenarian characters Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland to the Great White Way with Oh, Hello on Broadway. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Comedian Lisa Lampanelli stars in her playwriting debut, Stuffed, about women's food and body image issues. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the work currently receiving its world premiere by the WP Theatre, click here.

---------Frank Scheck

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump engaged in a particularly nasty second presidential debate Sunday night even as Trump's campaign was in crisis mode. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event, click here.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck resprised their roles in the Live Read New York presentation of their Oscar-winning screenplay for Good Will Hunting. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event directed by John Krasinski and also featuring Emily Blunt, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Bryce Pinkham and Corbin Blue star in Holiday Inn, the new Broadway musical based on the classic Bing Crosby-Fred Astaire film, featuring songs by Irving Berlin. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A middle schooler goes to war with his rules-obsessed principal in Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, a family comedy adapted from James Patterson's best-selling book series. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Hallie Foote stars in The Roads to Home, the off-Broadway revival of three interrelated one-acts by her two-time Academy Award winning father, Horton Foote. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Josh Brolin narrates Never Surrender: The Ed Ramsey Story, a documentary about the U.S. Army officer who led the last horse cavalry charge in American military history. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck