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.
July 26, 2023
Jul 26th
LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, and Owen Wilson are among the stars of Haunted Mansion, Disney's latest movie inspired by a theme park attraction. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
------Frank Scheck
July 25, 2023
Jul 25th
Eric McCormack, Laura Bell Bundy, Lilli Cooper and Alex Moffat are among the stars of Sandy Rustin's Noel Coward-inspired sex farce The Cottage, now playing on Broadway. To read my New York Stage Review review of the play, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
July 20, 2023
Jul 20th
Zach Galifianakis, Elizabeth Banks, Sarah Snook, and Geraldine Viswanathan co-star in The Beanie Bubble, a comedy-drama telling the behind-the-scenes story of the Beanie Babies phenomenon. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the Apple TV+ film, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
July 19, 2023
Jul 19th
Maggie Siff and Pico Alexander play the doomed lovers in the new Off-Broadway revival of Williams' problematic drama Orpheus Descending. To see my New York Stage Review review of the show being presented by Theatre for a New Audience, click here.
------Frank Scheck
July 14, 2023
Jul 14th
A woman loses her social inhibitions after being hypnotized to quit smoking in debuting Swedish director Ernst De Geer's dark comedy The Hypnosis. To read my Hollywood Reporter of the film that received its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, click here.
-------Frank Scheck