1,122 stories by "Frank Scheck"
'i'm sick to death of cleverness," exclaims a character in the cutely titled "The Importance of Being Ernest Hemingway." But while the line comes from Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being …
This new Broadway musical tells the real-life story of Shlomo Carlebach, the "Rock Star Rabbi."read more
Forty years after his death, Lyndon Johnson is suddenly a hot topic for the stage. "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston plays the late president in the bio-drama "All the Way," opening next mo…
Alex Timbers and Michael Friedman of "Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" fame collaborate on this new musical based on the early Shakespeare comedy.read more
Zachary Levi of TV's "Chuck" and Krysta Rodriguez star in this Broadway romantic musical comedy.read more
A man and woman meet on a blind date. She's a struggling freelance writer, he's a struggling actor. Gradually " over potent cocktails and "Asian soul food" oddities like cornbread miso soup …
This wacky theatrical version of Kathryn Bigelow's cult film features its trademark silly dialogue and over-the-top action.read more
'the King's Whore" bills itself as "a modern/historical mash-up of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn's debacle of a relationship." But Rob Santana's play " the first effort by Starcatcher Prod…
We were told to meet at a phone booth at the Montague Street entrance to the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, near the famous Low Mansion. There, a man in blue-rimmed glasses introduced himself a…
In 1981, President Reagan famously fired some 11,000 air traffic controllers after they went on strike in defiance of their contract.
Now, "I Forgive You, Ronald Reagan" is doing to hapless…
Charlie Chaplin would be proud: The Lincoln Center Festival's "Murmurs," conceived and directed by his daughter Victoria Thiérrée Chaplin and starring his granddaughter Aurélia Thiérrée…
You can practically feel the humidity wafting from "Story-ville." Set in the final days of the famed New Orleans neighborhood " a notorious red-light district that's also considered the birt…
This theatrical concert by an expert Beatles cover band follow in the heels of such similar predecessors as "Beatlemania" and "Rain"read more
SUSAN BLACKWELL of "[title of show]" winningly plays an English teacher pressed into coaching them.
After the cheerleader musicals "Bring It On" and "Lysistrata Jones," it's nice to see girls finally take the court. And they do so " winningly " in "Volleygirls," about a high school girls' …
A romantic comedy that's light on both romance and comedy, this New York Musical Theatre Festival offering concerns the travails of Little Harry (Robb Sapp), a chef who yearns to leave his f…
Wallace Shawn stars in a revival of his landmark 1996 play about a bourgeois society of intellectuals who fall victim to a totalitarian regime.read more
For a conflict responsible for the most casualties in American history, the Civil War had one heck of a soundtrack.
"Dixie," "When Johnny Comes Marching Home," "The Battle Cry of Freedom" an…
If the actor's nightmare is finding himself onstage without knowing his lines, the theatergoer's is realizing he's actually part of the play. That's the dizzying idea behind "rogerandtom," J…
In Howard Barker's "The Castle," weary soldiers return home from the Crusades to discover that their wives are hardly awaiting them with open arms. Indeed, the women have gone on to establis…
A drifter wanders into a small town and changes the lives of its inhabitants. No, it's not "Picnic" or "The Rainmaker" but "Julian Po," the strange, intriguing new musical, part of the New Y…
For a show that touches on sadomasochism, self-mutilation and disfigurement, "Shun-kin" is awfully decorous. Director Simon McBurney's Complicite theater production is as gorgeous and delica…
The sexual gamesmanship in Christopher Hampton's "Les Liaisons Danger-euses" has never seemed quite so viciously amoral as it does in the hands of John Malkovich.
The actor, who made a memo…
Just how universal is Willy Loman, the doomed soul of "Death of a Salesman"?
We're about to find out, with "This Great Country," a new theatrical reimagining of Arthur Miller's 1949 classic.…
With more than 2,000 new shows each summer, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is the largest arts festival in the world. But if you don't feel up to flying off to Scotland and digging through th…
