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  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.

Wednesday, May 18,2016

Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump kissed and made up in her primetime interview special, Megyn Kelly Presents,  that also included interviews with Laverne Cox, Robert Shapiro and Michael Douglas. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the event, click here.

Rupert Everett stars in the new production of The Judas Kiss, David Hare's 1998 play about Oscar Wilde. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Indecent, Paula Vogel's new play with music, tells the story behind Sholem Asch's controversial 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck

 

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Ethan Peck, son of Gregory, stars in The Curse of Sleeping Beauty, a horror film riff on the Brothers Grimm classic. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Robbers unwittingly break into the home of a serial killer in Viet Nguyen's horror comedy Crush the Skull. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-------Frank Scheck

Monday, May 16, 2016

Olivia Wilde directed an all-star cast in a reading of Woody Allen's screenplay Hannah and Her Sisters. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook about the sold-out Live Read event, click here.

Thomas Kail (Hamilton) directes Daphne's Dive, the new drama from Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes tracking the patrons of a Philadelphia bar over nearly two decades. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

--------Frank Scheck

Friday, May 13, 2016

Melissa Errico stars in the Encores production of Do I Hear a Waltz?, the 1965 Richard Rodgers/Stephen Sondheim musical based on the Arthur Laurents play that also inspired David Lean's classic 1955 film Summertime. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

Yaniv Rokah's documentary Queen Mimi profiles a homeless woman known as "The Queen of Santa Monica." To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

------Frank Scheck

Thursday, May 12, 2016

The documentary The Professor: Tai Chi's Journey West pays tribute to the Chinese master credited with popularizing the martial art in America. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.

-----Frank Scheck