Scheck on the Arts

Totem is the latest production of the ever-prolific Cirque du Soleil. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The moving documentary Downeast chronicles the efforts to reopen a shuttered Maine sardine factory. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

The new off-Broadway drama Neva concerns Olga Knipper, the actress wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

Classical Julie is the title of actress/comedian Julie Halston's hilarious new one-woman show at Birdland. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The 1969 Stonewall Riots are the subject of the hard-hitting new play with music, Hit the Wall. To read my New York Post review, click here.

The Other Side of the Ice is a new documentary chronicling filmmaker Sprage Theobald's tension-plagued voyage through the Northwest Passage. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

----Frank Scheck

You know Nick Offerman best as the carnivorous Ron Swanson on NBC's Parks and Recreation. Now he's making his NYC legit debut with his one-man show at Town Hall, American Ham. To read my Hot Picks item on the show in the New York Post, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Ed Harris and David Duchovny star in the Cold War-era set submarine thriller Phantom. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

England's acclaimed Kneehigh theater company has returned with The Wild Bride, their wildly imaginative take on a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm. To read my New York Post review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck