158 stories from Scheck on the Arts
Brian F. O'Byrne and Debra Messing in Outside Mulllingar
(©Joan Marcus)
Playwright John Patrick Shanley pours on the Irish blarney in Outside Mullingar, which strains mightily for Moo…
Frank Langella in King Lear
(©Richard Termine)
Following in Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi’s recent footsteps in playing King Lear at BAM’s Harvey Theater, Frank Langella p…
Rebecca Hall (foreground) with Jason Loughlin and Ryan Dinning (background) in Machinal
(©Joan Marcus)
The Roundabout Theatre Company’s current revival of Sophie Treadwell’…
Jessie Mueller and Jake Epstein in Beautiful - The Carole King Musical
(©Joan Marcus)
Baby boomer musical nostalgists have a lot to choose from on Broadway these days. Th…
Kyle Riabko and Laura Dreyfuss in What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined
(©Eric Ray Davidson)
Don’t expect brassy horns or Dionne Warwick-style belting in …
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen in Waiting for Godot
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Be sure not to rush out during the curtain calls of the new revival of Waiting for Godot starring …
Mark Rylance in Twelfth Night"
(Photo by Joan Marcus)
Unlike ordinary theatergoers, critics don’t have the luxury of picking and choosing their Shakespeare productions, havin…
Virgil "Lil' O" Gadson, Karine Plantadit and Company in After Midnight
(Photo by Matthew Murphy)
It may be called After Midnight, but the new musical revue that’s just opened…
Daniel Craig in Betrayal.(Photo ©Brigette Lacombe)
That James Bond is being cuckolded nightly onstage at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre is the most startling aspect of the new rev…
It’s a good thing that Motown: The Musical has the music of Motown to depend on. This self-serving musical documenting the rise and fall of the legendary Detroit music label was…
It’s getting to where you feel uncomfortable attending a Broadway musical without a little girl in tow. Joining the current tween-friendly line-up of Wicked, Annie and Rodgers and Hamm…
Operating under the principle that Broadway simply isn’t Broadway without the presence of fabulously dressed drag queens strutting onstage, the new musical Kinky Boots has arrived to f…
Nora Ephron’s new drama concerns the legendary tabloid journalist Mike McAlary, and its Broadway production has the lurid charge and energy of a tabloid newspaper itself. Directed in b…
If the performers onstage at NYU’s Skirball Center seem to be in their own world, that’s because they really are. They’re the members of Israel’s Nalaga’at Thea…
There are plenty of fireworks in the new Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, but sadly they’re all offstage. For this production marking Scarlett Johan…
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…
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…
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…
A true fondness for the British music hall is probably a prerequisite to fully enjoy the charms of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Rupert Holmes’ 1985 musical based on an unfinished novel …
Christopher Durang’s Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike manages the neat trick of being both a sometimes uproarious send-up of Chekhov and an affectionately heartwarming modern-day va…
Yes, the sun will come up tomorrow, but it sure doesn’t shine as brightly in the new Broadway revival of Annie. James Lapine’s staging of this clockwork-perfect musical somehow m…
Did Broadway really need another revival of Edmond Rostand’s 1987 romantic classic Cyrano de Bergerac a mere five years after the highly successful production starring Kevin Kline and …
A fine cast acts their hearts out in Grace, Craig Wright’s drama now receiving its Broadway premiere. While this play about the collision between an Evangelical Christian couple and a …
