Scheck on the Arts

The Drawer Boy is a terrific 1999 Canadian play only now receiving its NYC Off-Broadway premiere. To read my New York Post review, click here.

Tai Chi Hero, the sequel to last year's Tai Chi Zero, delivers plenty of frenetic martials-arts action. To read my Hollywood Reporter film review, click here.

The superb Israeli thriller Big Bad Wolves features plenty of shocking plot twists and devilishly mordant humor. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film featured at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

The documentary Married & Counting chronicles the cross-country journey of a same-sex couple seeking to get married in every state in which it's legally possible. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The Working Theater's La Ruta, about smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, is being presented inside an actual 48-foot truck. To read my New York Post feature story about this site-specific show, click here.

Farah Goes Bang is a sexually and politically charged road movie about three female workers canvassing for John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of this film being screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here's another review from the Tribeca Film Festival, of The Pretty One, starring Zoe Kazan as a twin who assumes her late sister's identity. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

British actor Tristan Sturrock of Brief Encounter fame recounts the harrowing tale of how he broke his neck in a fall in his superb solo piece Mayday Mayday. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Here are the first of my Hollywood Reporter reviews from the Tribeca Film Festival:

Nicholas Wrathall's documentary Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia recounts the life and career of the controversial writer and outspoken political gadfly. To read my review, click here.

Emma Cusack and John Cusack play a would-be poet and her reluctant mentor in the dark comedy Adult World. To read my review, click here.

Melissa Leo moving plays a mother dealing with her adult daughter's prescription drug addiction in Bottled Up. To read my review, click here.

Naomi Watts and Matt Dillon star in Sunlight Jr., about a downscale couple coping with financial pressures. To read my review, click here.

And from the New York Post, here's my theater review of the surprisingly funny new revival of August Strindberg's The Dance of Death starring Daniel Davis and Laila Robins. To read it, click here.

----Frank Scheck

The Royal Shakespeare Company's searing production of Shakespeare's  Julius Caesar is set in modern-day South Africa and features an all-black cast. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck