Scheck on the Arts

The Brooklyn Academy of Music hosts the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic production King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of Henry IV Part I, Henry IV Part II and Henry V, click here.

A group of old friends gather together to host a wake in Antlia Pneumatica, Anne Washburn's supernatural-tinged drama featuring Annie Parisse and Rob Campbell. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Off-Broadway play, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Andrew Wakefield's controversial documentary Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe, receiving a hurried theatrical release after being bumped from the Tribeca Film Festival, attempts to prove the link between the MMR vaccine and autism. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

A schoolteacher goes on trial for mentioning Jesus in her classroom in God's Not Dead 2, the sequel to the hit 2014 faith-based film. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

A young Hasidic yashiva student has a dramatic personality change after a near-death experience in the Israeli film Tikkun. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Santino Fontana stars as John Adams in 1776, the Encores production of the Tony-winning 1969 musical about the Founding Fathers, which Lin-Manuel Miranda credits as his inspiration for Hamilton. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

A married couple deals with relationship issues after one of them spots a UFO in Brian Ackley's domestic/sci-fi drama Alienated. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck