1,122 stories by "Frank Scheck"
One of the most pow erful moments in all of Shakespeare's plays occurs at the conclusion of "The Tempest," when the aging magician Prospero renounces his otherworldly powers. But it only wor…
Nnenna Frelon's new tribute show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency showcase her goregous voice and emotional expressiveness.
We're so used to sunny versions of "Peter Pan" that the darkness of "Peter and Wendy" comes as a shock. Based on J.M. Barrie's 1911 novelization of his play, this is a richer, deeper telling…
Most actors play King Lear as an imperial monarch, the better to contrast with the character’s subsequent descent into madness. But in the new production of the play at the Brooklyn Ac…
Ever since she saw her photo on a book jacket as a teen, Suzanne Vega's been obsessed with Carson McCullers. Sadly, that passion surfaces only occasionally in "Carson McCullers Talks About L…
That life doesn’t always offer the opportunity to neatly right past wrongs is a promising theme for a drama. Too bad, then, that Julia squanders it.
The centr…
If the title of Tony Kushner’s new play premiere puts you off, wait until you actually sit through it. The overlong and overstuffed The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitali…
You may want to think twice before tak ing your children to see "The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy": This exquisitely performed piece is so enchanting, they may never be content with your simpl…
Playwright David Ives has clearly had a ball adapting Moliere for his screwball verse comedy The School for Lies, and his enjoyment is infectious. Retaining the basic characters, situations …
The stock market's crashed. The Chinese have taken over. And "the world is falling apart."
No, it's not Donald Trump's latest rant -- it's "Future Anxiety," an apocalyptic satire at the F…
A musical whose themes encompass the Holocaust and Alzheimer’s disease doesn’t exactly qualify as a feel good experience. That’s perfectly fine—there’s plenty o…
It may be a time capsule of a play, but the sterling new Broadway revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart reveals that it has lost none of its urgency or power. A semi-fictionalized…
You can’t say that the new musical Baby It’s You! is shy about its intentions. In the opening moments of this show about the mega-selling ‘60s girl group The Shirelles, an …
In his revelatory production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, director David Cromer unearthed the darkness underlying a play that is usually presented as a paean to a more innocent Ameri…
The title of Garson Kanin’s play proves all too accurate with the new Broadway revival of Born Yesterday. This comedy about a crooked businessman in cahoots with corrupt politicians ma…
If you can't come to Broadway, Broadway is going to come to you.That's the philosophy behind the upcoming nationwide movie theater showings of two current Broadway shows.
Considering his brilliant comic turn earlier this season in the revival of La Bete and now his titanic performance in Jez Butterworth's new play Jerusalem at the same theater, we might as we…
There’s fun, if not musical comedy heaven, to be found in Sister Act, the new Broadway musical adaptation of the hit 1992 movie starring Whoopi Goldberg. Featuring plenty of talent bot…
The charismatic performer delivers a wonderfully entertaining show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency.
That former sexpot Kathleen Turner, who so memorably raised temperatures in such films as Body Heat and Crimes of Passion, has become a formidable presence in middle age. Her body thickened …
Attention, theatergoers. Sitting in a seat and watching a show is so yesterday.
The truth of that statement is well demonstrated by Sleep No More, the wonderfully immersive theatrica…
Heavy drinking, vicious cat fights and some hot girl-on- girl action would seem the perfect ingredients for a reality TV show.
That all that and more are perpetrated by a women's book clu…
Down the rabbit hole indeed.
Wonderland is the sort of horrifically bad Broadway musical that doesn’t come along too often these days. Based on-- you guessed it—AliceR…
The Wild West gets even wilder in "Boom Town," the new children's show by the clever Cirque Mechanics troupe.
It's set in an 1860s mining town that's literally a springboard for circus ac…
Stage wonders of the most magisterial sort are delivered in War Horse, the hit London production that has been remounted by the Lincoln Center Theater. This epic drama about the bond between…
