Scheck on the Arts

Olivia Wilde directed an all-star cast in a reading of Woody Allen's screenplay Hannah and Her Sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the sold-out Live Read event, click here.

Thomas Kail (Hamilton) directes Daphne's Dive, the new drama from Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes tracking the patrons of a Philadelphia bar over nearly two decades. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Melissa Errico stars in the Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean's classic 1955 film Summertime. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi profiles a homeless woman known as "The Queen of Santa Monica." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The documentary The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West pays tribute to the Chinese master credited with popularizing the martial art in America. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Erez Laufer's documentary Rabin in His Own Words chronicles the life and career of the Israeli prime minister. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

In his harrowing documentary Credit for Murder, Israeli filmmaker Vladi Antonevicz infiltrates Russian neo-Nazi groups to investigate a horrific double murder. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently screened at Toronto's Hot Docs festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

A young woman undergoes a startling bodily transformation after a bug bite in Chad Archibald's gross-out horror film Bite. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck