1,122 stories by "Frank Scheck"
The opening moments of "Brownsville Bred" suggest we're in for a rough evening. Projected on a sheet hung on a clothesline is a Wikipedia entry about the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, fol…
'Victory: Choices in Reaction" is the theatrical equivalent to eat ing your vegetables. Set during the 17th century, when the monarchy was restored to England, this sprawling epic packs in s…
Love triangles are al ways complicated. But the one in "A Strange and Separate People" is more convoluted than most.
In this new play by Jon Marans ("The Temperamentals," "Old Wicked Song…
Haunted-looking fig ures, their faces painted white, stand motionless onstage as you enter the Flea Theater. It's an arresting image -- one that dissipates as soon as they open their mouths.…
Imagine Blue Man Group ex panding its roster, develop ing the ability to harmonize and turning from blue to white. That, in essence, is "Voca People," about an intergalactic singing group.
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'LADIES and gentlemen, Lenny Bruce!" The introduction alone is enough to give you goose bumps -- especially since it's being heard at what used to be the Village Gate, where the brilliant co…
AN old-fashioned thriller in the Agatha Christie vein, "Tryst" is set in Edwardian times. It could just as easily have been written then as well -- and that's a compliment.
Originally pro…
One of the most ten der love songs cur rently heard on a New York stage is sung by a cannibalis tic killer. Its title can't be repeated here, and you won't be hearing it covered by Harry Con…
Tyne Daly has big shoes to fill in Terrence McNally’s Master Class. Not just those of her character, the legendary opera star Maria Callas, but also such esteemed forerunners in the ro…
Greek tragedy is trans posed to modern-day South Africa in "MoLoRa," Yael Farber's adaptation of the "Oresteia."
This powerful drama takes the story of the murderous Klytemnestra and her …
This new revue by Neil Berg at Feinstein's at Loews Regency works best when its talented performers stick to Broadway standards.
James Baldwin's "Blues for Mister Charlie" is an in spired choice to open the New Haarlem Arts Theatre, a new professional company based at CCNY.
While this play is no longer the urgent w…
Can't go to England to see the Royal Shakespeare Company? Well, the Royal Shakespeare Company's com ing to you -- and it's bringing its theater.
In one of the Lincoln Center Festival's bo…
In case you hadn't re alized the Vienna of "Measure for Measure" is a moral cesspool, David Esbjornson opens his Shakespeare in the Park production with horned creatures and menacing hooded …
With its Latin Ameri can setting and fre quent shifts between reality and fantasy, Victoria E. Calderon's "Manipulation" recalls the works of Lorca and Marquez. But the heavy-handed stylizat…
At this point in our relationship with Cirque du Soleil, familiarity is begin ning to breed contempt.
"Zarkana," set to occupy Radio City Music Hall until the fall, is the prolific troupe…
IF there's a heaven for enter tainers, the gateway must be St. Luke's Theatre. It's in this church basement that Danny Kaye and Fanny Brice -- or, at least, the people playing them -- have b…
Anyone who's napped through high school biology will appreciate the remedial education Baba Brinkman offers in "The Rap Guide to Evolution," an audacious one-man show on Darwin's theories.
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The new Shakespeare in the Park production of "All's Well That Ends Well" begins and ends with characters waltzing. The dances nicely bookend the elegance of Daniel Sullivan's staging, which…
It's not unusual for actors to bump into the furniture. But the performers in "Some of Our Parts" have good reason: Some of them are blind.
You won't necessarily know which ones, and that…
The Ice Factory Festival just got a lot cooler.
For the past 18 years, one of the city's oldest, most adventurous theater festivals was presented in a 100-year-old former SoHo warehouse h…
The latest in a seemingly endless series of plays about crumbling marriages, Michael Weller’s Side Effects never manages to transcend its formulaic aspects. This companion piece to the…
The beat of a conga drum greets you as you enter the Intar Theatre. Its hard, insistent beats underscore all of "Drawn and Quartered," Maggie Bofill's new play about an estranged couple's st…
A quick visit to the Shaw Festival at picturesque Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario yielded an unexpected delight in the form of Drama at Inish. This 1933 little-known work by Irish playwright Le…
After several delayed openings, endless technical problems and myriad cast injuries, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has finally landed on Broadway, officially at least. The much maligned, rep…
