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.
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Feb 18th
Ed Harris, Amy Madigan, Taissa Farmiga and Nat Woolf star in the New Group's off-Broadway revival of Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Buried Child. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-------Frank Scheck
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Feb 17th
Eli Roth is the executive producer of Cabin Fever, the remake of his 2002 cult horror hit. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
A couple experiences relationship issues involving family and ethnicity in the Canadian romantic comedy A Date With Miss Fortune. Tor read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
----Frank Scheck
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Feb 16th
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards resembled the most rocking memorial service ever. To read my Billboard review of the show, click here.
Robert De Niro co-directs A Bronx Tale: The Musical, based on Chazz Palminteri's one-man play about growing up on the mean streets of the Bronx. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the show currently receiving its world premiere at New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse, click here.
------Frank Scheck
Monday, February 15, 2016
Feb 15th
Held just after the news of Antonin Scalia's sudden death, Saturday night's GOP presidential debate was perhaps the most contentious yet. To read my Hollywood Repoter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.
A man hires an emotionally volatile cabbie to help him follow the girlfriend he suspects of cheating on him in the Australian black comedy The Tail Job. To read my Hollywood Reporter review of the film recently featured at the Slamdance Film Festival, click here.
-----Frank Scheck
Friday, February 12, 2016
Feb 12th
Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton got into a heated exchange over the legacy of Henry Kissinger, of all things, at their latest Democratic candidates debate. To read my Hollywood Reporter Critic's Notebook on the event, click here.
Comedian Mike Birbligia delivers extended riffs on the perils of joke-telling in his new one-man show, Mike Birbliglia: Thank God for Jokes, now playing off-Broadway. To read my Hollywood Reporter review, click here.
-----Frank Scheck