1,122 stories by "Frank Scheck"
The central character in Sharr White’s drama The Other Place is suffering the disorientating effects of a condition she’s self-diagnosed as brain cancer. Her helpless confusion i…
I am not a racist.
And yet there I was, sitting in the audience at "Tar Baby" " comedian Desiree Burch's provocatively titled new show about race " wearing a sticker calling me one.
That lab…
Eager to shed those holiday pounds? You may want to check out "The Diet Show." Not only might it provide some powerful motivation, but it's the only show in town that at one point requires y…
You can say one thing about this year's Under the Radar festival: It has something for every attention span.
Do you suffer from theater-induced attention-deficit disorder? There are three s…
It seems a reasonable request: The dead young soldier standing in front of you forlornly asks for a coin, so he and his men can pay the ferryman to get across the River Styx. It's easy enoug…
Here are 13 things about "13 Things About Ed Carpolotti":
1. It's a solo chamber musical, with Penny Fuller " of Broadway's "Applause" and "Barefoot in the Park" " as a widow who finds her l…
'Are you having a good time?" an actor asked me during the intermission of "Restoration Comedy," the new party " sorry, production " at the Flea Theater.
It was a fair question, considering…
Spoiler alert: Clarence gets his wings.
That you know absolutely everything that's going to happen doesn't spoil the pleasures of "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play." Anthony E. Pale…
It's apt that "The Songs I Love So Well" begins with that old chestnut "Danny Boy." This show starring venerable Irish musician Phil Coulter is suffused with such a warm glow of nostalgia th…
The action in the rock musical "Bare" revolves around a Catholic high school production of "Romeo and Juliet." But here, the star-crossed lovers are two gay teens whose illicit romance has t…
Ah, the benefits of diminished expectations. Since it began previews in October, the Broadway revival of David Mamet’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Glengarry Glen Ross has been the target of…
Clifford Odets’ rarely seen 1937 drama Golden Boy is receiving a loving revival courtesy of the Lincoln Center Theater, which previously mounted his classic Awake and Sing! to great ac…
Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Frances Conroy: They're just a few of the actors who began their careers touring with the Acting Company. That long list of illustrious alumni may one day include …
Given its title (and a subtitle that's not fit to print in a family newspaper), it's pretty clear that "Let's Kill Grandma This Christmas" isn't aimed at the Rockettes crowd. Or anyone else …
It wasn't easy being Zelda Fitzgerald. The talented wife of "Great Gatsby" writer F. Scott Fitzgerald suffered from bipolar disorder, for which she was often institutionalized. Her marriage …
Terrence McNally's new play conveys the chaotic backstage goings-on during the 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera. read more
Best not to walk the kiddies past an open construction site after taking them to "Circus Oz: From the Ground Up." The Australian troupe's new show makes dangling high up on a construction be…
A situation rife with dramatic possibilities is given a frustratingly airless treatment in David Mamet’s new drama about a prisoner arguing for her parole before an impassive prison of…
The ever-reliable Norbert Leo Butz should earn a Broadway MVP award for his dynamic comic turn in Dead Accounts, the latest effort by the prolific scribe Theresa Rebeck (Seminar, The Underst…
Like a mordantly funny variation on "On Golden Pond," Bruce Graham's new play "The Outgoing Tide" wrests a surprising amount of humor from its dark tale of a family patriarch with dementia. …
No, that's not a typo: It's "Mies Julie," not "Miss Julie," that's playing St. Ann's Warehouse. This blistering adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 classic is set in present-day South Afr…
You can hardly blame Tommy Tune for being a little self-congratulatory in "Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales," his new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. After all, the 6-foot-6 performer, directo…
Kathie Lee Gifford's musical depicts the rise and fall of famed '20s-era evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.read more
'if it wasn't for you, we might all be eating with chopsticks."
Those comforting words are offered to a haunted-looking man in "Radiance," Cusi Cram's new play that marks the latest misstep…
In search of the perfect echo, Dusty Springfield recorded her vocals for her classic album "Dusty in Memphis" in a bathroom. That scene is dramatized in "Forever Dusty," the new bio-musical …
