Welcome to Scheck on the Arts
Welcome to this destination for reviews, news
and musings on Theater, Film and Culture (Music,
Cabaret, Books and more) by veteran arts writer
and New York Post/Hollywood Reporter
critic Frank Scheck.
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Feb 26th
Quincy Tyler Bernstine plays the title role in Marys Seacole, Jackie Sibblbies Drury's experimental drama about the real-life, 19th-century Jamaica born-healer. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Monday, February 25, 2019
Feb 25th
The ancient god Dionysus returns as a butch lesbian landscape gardener to seduce four New Jersey housewives and save the planet from climate change in Hurricane Diane, Madeleine George's new absurdist comedy. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Feb 24th
Having achieved the dubious distinction of seeing all the films nominated for this year's Razzie Awards, I was in a unique position to select the most deserving winners. To see my Critic's Picks as published in The Hollywood Reporter, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Friday, February 15, 2019
Feb 15th
Jake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge play young men coping with personal loss in Sea Wall / A Life, a pair of one-acts by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Thursday, February 14, 2018
Feb 14th
A young woman finds her life turned upside down when she inherits a pugnacious pug in Mandi Fletcher's comedy Patrick. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
Isabelle Dupuis and Tim Geraghty's documentary The Unicorn provides an intimate portrait of outsider musician Peter Grudzien, creator of what many consider to be the first openly gay country album. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck