Scheck on the Arts

Julien Schwab's rogerandtom is a clever meta-theatrical comedy in which an audience member is horrified to discover that he's part of the onstage action. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Stephen Moyer and Radha Mitchell play detectives using found footage to uncover the mystery behind a brutal massacre in the thriller Evidence. To read my Hollywood Reporter revirew, click here.

Nicky's Family is a moving documentary about Nicholas Winton, the "British Schindler" who rescued hundreds of Czech children from the Nazis. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Neil Drummings' indie feature Big Words depicts the emotion-charged reunion of the former members of a once-aspiring hip-hop group. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

A fine cast of comic veterans is wasted in Jeff Garlin's (Curb Your Enthusiasm) sophomore directorial effort, Dealin' With Idiots. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Howard Barker's Shakespearean-style, epic dark comedy The Castle is being given an off-Broadway production by the PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project). To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Chad Kimball (Memphis) stars in the quirky new musical Julian Po, being given its NYC premiere at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Simon McBurney's Complicite theater production of Shun-Kin, an erotic tale set in 19th century Japan, is one of the highlights of the Lincoln Center Festival. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The Austrian film The Shine of Day concerns the relationship between a theater actor and his long-lost uncle. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Brooke Shields, Daryl Hannah and Virginia Madsen, among others, star in the new comedy The Hot Flashes, about a group of middle-aged women who form a basketball team for charity. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

The ever curmudgeonly Jackie Hoffman delivers her unique brand of comic venom in Old Woman, New Material, her hiliarious new show at 54 Below. To read my New York Post review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

The Lincoln Center Festival's production of Monkey: Journey to the West adapts an ancient Chinese folktale with striking theatrical imagination. To read my New York Post story on the show, click here.

This Great Country is the experimental theater troupe 400 Highwaymen's untraditional take on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. To read my New York Post story on this show being performed at the South Street Seaport, click here.

------Frank Scheck