1,122 stories by "Frank Scheck"
There's a surreal quality to Cirque du Soleil's "Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour," which played this weekend at Newark's Prudential Center, and it's not just because its inspiration…
It’s a hard knock life for the newsboys in Newsies, the stage adaptation of the flop 1992 Disney musical film that has become a cult favorite. When the ragtag group of orphans and runa…
Those impish wags from [title of show] are back to their meta-theatrical tricks in their new, similarly whimsically titled new musical. Starring Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenst…
Rising British playwright Matt Charman reveals a fascination with the darker aspects of ‘50s era American society in Regrets, now receiving its world premiere from the Manhattan Theatr…
Holocaust deniers are a reprehensible lot. But they can be transfixing.
That's the uncomfortable message one takes away from "The Soap Myth," presented by the National Jewish Theater. In it…
The last time I checked, incest between a brother and sister was still considered relatively abhorrent.
So it naturally comes as a surprise that the Cheek by Jowl production of John …
When Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers" opened back in 1991, all three of its leads " Mercedes Ruehl, Irene Worth and Kevin Spacey " won Tony Awards.
Now it's the children's hour.
In this new r…
Jesus Christ Superstar, which began its life as a concept album, has always been more fun to listen to than actually watch. But the new Broadway revival--imported from the Stratford Shakespe…
The spirit of Woody Guthrie is alive and well in the East Village, thanks to Ethan Lipton's "No Place To Go," a "musical ode to the unemployed."
Stylistically, the 41-year-old hews more clo…
This tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson at Feinstein's at Loews Regency doesn't do justice to its subject matter.
It took no small amount of guts for the Pearl Theatre Company to mount "A Moon for the Misbegotten."
This final masterpiece by Eugene O'Neill hasn't exactly been underexposed here. Broadway'…
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, kids " remember that fairy tale by Hans Christian somebody, "Ugly Duckling," about a duck that turns into a beautiful swan? Now you can see it live! It has music and dancing and everyt…
Whenever there’s a new revival of Death of a Salesman people marvel at the fact that it seems so newly relevant. But it’s not that society is changing but rather that Arthur Mill…
'Teresa's Ecstasy," by the wonderfully named Spanish American playwright and actress Begonya Plaza, tries to combine the spiritual with the earthly in its story of a woman's quest for self-d…
There's a scene in "Hand to God" in which two teenagers tenderly and quietly discuss their feelings for one another . . . all the while desperately trying to ignore the hand puppets they're …
There's nothing more annoying than to be stuck at the theater while someone chatters away incessantly on his cellphone.
It's even worse when he's onstage.
That's the case with "Flight," in…
You'll never hear Beethoven's erotically charged piece of music the same way after seeing "The Kreutzer Sonata."
Adapted by Nancy Harris from Leo Tolstoy's 1889 novella " so provocative tha…
The simple act of storytelling is a time-honored theatrical tradition. But it can also a hackneyed one. Case in point: An Iliad, the new one-man show—well, technically two man, but mor…
Not that I’m in any rush, but whenever death comes for me I hope it takes the form of the Lady from Dubuque.
As elegantly personified by Jane Alexander in the Signature Theatre…
Even Mark Twain would have liked "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" now playing at the New Victory Theater: Not only is this child-friendly rendition faithful to the text and spirit of his work,…
On its surface, Tribes is concerned with a young deaf man’s sudden decision to embrace sign language rather than rely on lip-reading. But that description doesn’t do justice to N…
The women address us from the stage, speaking in soft, halting tones, their eyes darting nervously. They're clearly not comfortable being there.
But when they look directly at each other, t…
The original musical version of Carrie was a notorious flop upon its 1988 Broadway premiere--it closed after five performances at a loss of millions of dollars, nearly destroyed the reputati…
Tyrannical bosses should be more careful about mistreating their employees. Their victims may very well develop into talented playwrights who will later skewer them in viciously funny fashio…
Its lurid title notwithstanding, "I Killed My Mother" is neither campy comedy nor a theatrical take on film noir. Instead, Andras Visky's new play " a portrait of a young woman's hardscrabbl…
