Scheck on the Arts

Obie Award-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new play Gloria depicts the traumatic repercussions of a life-changing event on the employees of a Manhattan magazine. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

The documentary The Babushkas of Chernobyl profiles the elderly women who continue to live in the Chernobyl "Exclusion Zone" despite the presence of deadly levels of radiation. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film that received its world premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

David Mamet's pair of creepily atmospheric one-acts Ghost Stories is being given a 30th anniversary revival by Off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company in a production starring Arliss Howard and Jason Ritter. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Dean Cain plays a detective who gets himself sent to prison to exact revenge on the bad guys who killed his wife in Vendetta, the new testosterone-laden effort from the Soska sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The arrival of a mysterious stranger with "contagious blood" sets off a violent chain of events in the unconventional horror film Eli Roth Presents The Stranger, directed by Guillermo Amoedo. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A lethal assassin turns vigilante to protect the innocent in Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's Chilean action film Redeemer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Oscar winner Marion Cottilard plays the title role in Joan of Arc at the Stake, the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Arthur Honegger's classic oratorio. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A swingers' party goes disastrously awry in The Qualms, the new black comedy from Bruce Norris, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Clybourne Park. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Off-Broadway show, click here.

----Frank Scheck

Loudon Wainwright III's one-man show Surviving Twin combines his own songs with spoken word excerpts from his famed magazine columnist father's writings. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Jason Trost stars in his sci-fi horror film How to Save Us, about a man searching for his missing brother in a post-apocalyptic landscape. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck