Scheck on the Arts

Frank Langella is starring in King Lear at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in a production imported from England's Chichester Festival Theatre. To read my review, click here.

Michael Rosenbaum's debut film Back in the Day, about a high-school reunion, is strictly from the Adam Sandler school of comedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Isabella Rossellini's one-person show Green Porno, about the mating rituals of the animal kingdom, is based on her popular Sundance Channel series. To read my Hollywood Reporter theater review, click here.

Chander Pahar (Mountain of the Moon), a screen adaptation of a popular 1937 Bengali novel, depicts a young man's hair-raising African adventures. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Bruce Ramsay's streamlined cinematic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet reduces the action to a brisk 87 minutes. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A gay relationship goes violently awry in Rob Moretti's graphic psychological thriller Truth. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

The Tony Award-winning Sutton Foster is currently performing her cabaret show at the swanky Cafe Carlyle. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

The Metropolitan Opera has brought in the New Year with a lavish new staging of Johann Strauss Jr.'s classic operetta Die Fledermaus. To read my review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

A spy defector finds himself pursued by relentless government agents in the South Korean thriller The Suspect. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

The comedy Black Coffee depicts the burgeoning romance between an unemployed painter and a successful lawyer. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck