Scheck on the Arts

A 15-year-old girl and a suicidal young man hit the road in pursuit of her younger sister in Laurie Weltz's comedy/drama About Scout. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

An emotionally troubled young woman gets embroiled in mysterious events surrounding an amateur production of Macbeth in the horror film A Haunting in Cawdor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Annette O'Toole plays the dying patriarch of a transgender family in the Off-Broadway musical Southern Comfort, adapted from the award-winning 2001 documentary. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Terrence Jenkins plays a ladies man who finds himself falling in love in the romantic comedy The Perfect Match. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The GOP presidential candidates practiced anger management at their latest debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.

Bobby Steggert stars in Boy, Anna Ziegler's play about a man struggling with transgender issues as a result of being raised as a girl after a childhood accident. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders jostled--sometimes brusingly--to get to the left of each other on the immigration issue in last night's Democratic presidential debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.

A young man vows revenge against his diamond-dealing relatives in the French film thriller Dark Inclusion. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Rising star Leon Bridges expertly channeled '60s-era soul and R&B in his headlining concert at NYC's Beacon Theatre. To read my Billboard review of the show, click here.

Joaquim de Almeida plays a neuroscientist attempting to help a street singer with Alzheimer's disease in the New Orleans-set drama Of Mind and Music. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck