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Monday, October 19, 2015

'Kill Floor': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Marin Ireland stars in Abe Koogler's new play about a woman struggling to remake her life after being released from prison. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Sunday, October 18, 2015

'Trip of Love': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Creator-director-choreographer James Walski's dance-heavy musical revue features over 25 classic pop songs of the 1960s. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 04:00PM
Tuesday, October 13, 2015

'Ugly Lies the Bone': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Mamie Gummer stars in the world premiere of Lindsey Ferrentino's play about a war veteran who comes bearing physical and emotional scars. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Sunday, September 27, 2015

'Antigone': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Oscar-winner Juliette Binoche plays the title role in Ivo van Hove's production of the classic Greek tragedy. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Thursday, September 17, 2015

'The Christians': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Lucas Hnath's play about the internal conflicts within an evangelical megachurch opens off-Broadway prior to its December run at the Mark Taper Forum. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:15PM

'Hamlet in Bed': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Annette O'Toole stars opposite playwright Michael Laurence in this new work about an actor who casts the woman he thinks is his birth mother as Gertrude to his Hamlet.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

'The Legend of Georgia McBride': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

A Florida straight man becomes a local drag star in this comedy by emerging playwright Matthew Lopez, author of 'The Whipping Man.'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:30PM
Thursday, August 27, 2015

'Whorl Inside a Loop': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Broadway actress Sherie Rene Scott stars in her play co-written with Dick Scanlan, based on her experience working with prison inmates on a theatrical project.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PM
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

'On the Town': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Misty Copeland makes her Broadway debut in the Tony-nominated revival of the classic Leonard Bernstein, Betty Comden and Adolph Green musical. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:47PM
Wednesday, August 19, 2015

'Mercury Fur': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Philip Ridley's controversial dystopian drama about a party in which a young boy is offered as a sacrifice is given its off-Broadway premiere by The New Group.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Monday, August 10, 2015

'Cymbeline': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Lily Rabe, Hamish Linklater, Raul Esparza and Kate Burton star in this free Central Park production of Shakespeare's dizzyingly convoluted late romance play.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Thursday, August 6, 2015

'Hamilton': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Lin-Manuel Miranda's landmark musical about the Founding Father transfers to Broadway with all its virtues intact and major hit status already assured. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Sunday, July 26, 2015

'The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

This solo play written and performed by the co-founder of The Trevor Project relates the tale of a flamboyant teenager who goes missing.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:02AM
Friday, July 24, 2015

'Kafka on the Shore': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

The Lincoln Center Festival presents the Ninagawa Company's lavish theatrical adaptation of Haruki Murakami's acclaimed novel.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 01:28PM
Thursday, July 23, 2015

'Colin Quinn: The New York Story': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Colin Quinn delivers comedic riffs on the history of the Big Apple in his new solo show directed by Jerry Seinfeldread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM

Spooky Irish play ‘The Weir’ will put a chill down your spine by Frank Scheck

Conor McPherson’s “The Weir” provides a welcome respite from the summer heat: There’s nothing like tales of the supernatural to send chills down your spine. Much like the ghosts in...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 02:51PM
Sunday, July 12, 2015

'Penn & Teller On Broadway': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

The veteran illusionist duo returns to Broadway for their first NYC stage appearance in fifteen years.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

'Of Good Stock': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Alicia Silverstone appears in Melissa Ross' play about a family reunion during which three sisters deal with myriad personal crises. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM
Monday, June 29, 2015

Tony Shalhoub and Brooke Adams bring renewed joy to ‘Happy Days’ by Frank Scheck

Would that we could all face life with the sunny optimism of Winnie in “Happy Days.” Buried up to her chest in a mound of earth under a blazing sun...

SOURCE: The New York Post at 09:00PM
Thursday, June 18, 2015

'Doctor Faustus': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Chris Noth plays the title role in this off-Broadway revival of Christopher Marlowe's classic Elizabethan play, which also features Zach Grenier of 'The Good Wife.'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:30PM
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

'Gloria': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

The latest effort from the Obie Award-winning author of such acclaimed works as 'Appropriate' and 'An Octoroon' depicts the traumatic repercussions of a life-changing event on the employees …

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

'Ghost Stories: The Shawl & Prairie du Chien': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

David Mamet's pair of creepily atmospheric one-acts is given a 30th anniversary revival by off-Broadway's Atlantic Theater Company, featuring Arliss Howard and Jason Ritter.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Sunday, June 14, 2015

'The Qualms': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

A swingers' party goes disastrously awry in this new black comedy from Bruce Norris, the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'Clybourne Park.'read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM
Friday, June 12, 2015

'Joan of Arc at the Stake': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Oscar winner Marion Cotillard plays the title role in the New York Philharmonic's staged production of Arhtur Honegger's classic French oratorio.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:24AM
Thursday, June 11, 2015

'Surviving Twin': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Loudon Wainwright III's one-man show combines his own songs with spoken word excerpts from his famed magazine columnist father's writingsread more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 03:02PM
Wednesday, June 3, 2015

'Heisenberg': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Mary-Louise Parker and Dennis Arndt star in this new play by the author of 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,' about the unlikely romance between a free-spirited woman and a…

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 10:00PM
Tuesday, June 2, 2015

'The Spoils': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Jesse Eisenberg stars in his new play about a would-be filmmaker scheming to destroy the relationship between his grade-school crush and her new fiance. read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 09:00PM

'Ever After': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

This musical adaptation of the 1998 Drew Barrymore movie receives its world premiere at New Jersey's largest regional theater, featuring a first-rate cast of Broadway veterans.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 11:05AM
Thursday, May 28, 2015

'An Act of God': Theater Review by Frank Scheck

Jim Parsons plays the Almighty, delivering a revised version of the Ten Commandments in former 'Daily Show' head writer David Javerbaum's comedy.read more

SOURCE: The Hollywood Reporter at 08:00PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

He's historical and hysterical by FRANK SCHECK

Here's the difference be tween seeing a stand-up comic in a theater and seeing one in a club: The material is usually framed by a "concept" in a theater, ticket prices are higher -- and drin…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM

Deluge of dark humor by FRANK SCHECK

For a show about one of the worst natural disas ters in this country's history, "The Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival" is awfully funny -- as entertaining as it is moving. Rob Florence's F…

SOURCE: The New York Post Subscription at 05:58PM

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