1,115 stories by "Frank Scheck"
Watching Craig Lucas' new drama is like listening to the confessionals at a 12-step meeting: What's deeply meaningful to the speakers may be tedious for everyone else. Lucas ("Prelude to...
Frances Jue and Cole Horibe in Kung Fu
(©Joan Marcus)
The title of David Henry Hwang’s bio-play about Bruce Lee is ironic in a way that the screen icon would surely have appreci…
Kelli O'Hara and Steven Pasquale in The Bridges of MadisonCounty
(©Joan Marcus)
Is it too much to ask of a show called The Bridges of Madison County that we actually see one of the co…
A scene from Love and Information
(©Joan Marcus)
Caryl Churchill’s new play Love and Information features more than a hundred characters in some fifty short scenes ranging in le…
Donald Margulies' Pulitzer Prize-winning play explores the complexities of marriage and friendship.read more
He was a femme fatale in "Die Mommie, Die!" and a schizoid teenager in "Psycho Beach Party." But Charles Busch's new character is more demure: This time he plays Jimmy,...
Yankee legends past and present are the main characters of Eric Simonson's baseball-themed drama read more
Christian Borle did a lot of scenery chewing as the villainous Black Stache in "Peter and the Starcatcher," but that doesn't compare to the fun he's having in "Little Me."...
The star of Broadway's "Jersey Boys" and its upcoming film delivered a 75-minute set filled with classics during a new cabaret show.read more
The legendary nightspot Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe has been gloriously resurrected for this lavish and immersive theater experience.read more
Bertolt Brecht's rarely performed 1926 play is revived in a new version featuring original music by Duncan Sheik ("Spring Awakening").read more
Laura Esterman and Keith Randolph Smith in Intimacy
(©Monique Carboni)
For a play that features, among other things, masturbation, ejaculations, fellatio, anal sex, suggestions of inc…
Billy Hayes is as charming a (former) drug smuggler as you'd ever hope to meet. And if his name isn't familiar, his story is, thanks to the movie "Midnight Express."...
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…
Don’t even think of hibernating: What used to be the deadest month of the year is now a cultural cornucopia, thanks to two downtown theater festivals. What's surprising is how...
The year 2013 had its high notes and its twerks " and Sandra Bernhard dishes about them all in "Sandyland," her year-in-review revue at Joe's Pub. Backed by her band,...
You know him best as Big Pussy, who got wired and whacked in "The Sopranos." But long before Vincent Pastore played wiseguys, he owned the Crazy Horse Cafe in New...
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 …
Experienced theatergoers know that nearly every performer's credits in the program inevitably list appearances on "Law and Order" and its myriad offshoots. But there are plenty of other TV s…
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 …
We’re still hunting for Halloween candy between the couch cushions and have yet to order a turkey " but "The Radio City Christmas Spectacular" just propelled us into the holidays....
“How can I go on? I cannot." And with those fateful words, we know we're watching a Beckett play " in this case, "All That Fall." That we're seeing it...
