1,115 stories by "Frank Scheck"
There's a serious "ick" factor at the final roundup of Ensemble Studio Theater's "34th Marathon of One-Act Plays." From the elderly gentleman groping his wife's breasts to a blood-stained so…
It's a post office " New York's main branch " on its way to becoming an Amtrak train station. For now, though, the historic James A. Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue is also a theater, wh…
J.B. Priestley's "An Inspector Calls" was a surprise hit when it was revived on Broadway nine years ago. Now comes Priestley's "Cornelius," which vanished after its 1935 West End run and has…
It's best known as the place where the Titanic was built. But Harland and Wolff, the Belfast shipyard where "The Boat Factory" is set, was much more than that " a place where generations of …
We get not one but two Susan Sontags in Moe Angelos' "Sontag: Reborn." The first is the younger version, beginning in the late intellectual's teenage years, as she begins a search for self-i…
Reality Tv seems almost too easy a target for satire, but "Good Television" mostly avoids the pitfalls. This debut work by veteran Atlantic Theater Company actor Rod McLachlan offers disturb…
What does it take to go "Around the World in 80 Days?"
Just two hours, five actors and some highly inventive theatricality.
Jules Verne's 1873 classic about the globe-trotting adventures of …
Christopher Lloyd stars in this off-Broadway revival of Bertolt Brecht's modern classic. read more
Love lost and found is at the heart of the best works in Ensemble Studio Theatre's "34th Marathon of One-Act Plays." The first in its annual three-part series is a better-than-usual bill, de…
Perhaps you thought you could get away with secretly reading "Fifty Shades of Grey" on your Kindles and iPads. But your naughty literary predilections will be exposed should you see "Cuff Me…
The veteran comedian delivers riffs on the U.S. Constitution in his new solo show.read more
Talk about setting the scene: For "Core Values," Lauren Helpern's vividly realistic set design depicts the cramped, dreary conference room of a small Manhattan travel agency.
Lit by fluores…
Now that she's 73, Christina Crawford might want to resolve her mommy issues. That's the main feeling evoked by "Surviving Mommie Dearest," a bizarre show in which Crawford rehashes the abus…
For "This Side of Neverland" " two one-act plays by "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie " the Pearl Theatre leaves this side of the Atlantic for the starchy shores of Edwardian England.
The atmos…
A few minutes into his new show, Mark Nadler orders the theater doors to be locked. "You will stay for ze entire show und you vill like it!" he announces in a comical German accent he drops …
Manhattan therapist Colleen Fitzgerald has an unorthodox twist on treatment: She sees only the patients she likes.
Good luck with that in this town.
And good luck to audiences at "Love Thera…
Purim came and went, but the National Yiddish Theater-Folksbiene is celebrating it now with "The Megile of Itzik Manger," a freewheeling musical adaptation of the Book of Esther that's as ta…
You may not think a play set in rural Ontario, Canada, is worth a New York minute, let alone two hours " but if you pass up "The Drawer Boy," it's your loss.
Michael Healey's drama, set in …
Immigration is a hot-button issue " and you can literally feel the heat at "La Ruta." The Working Theater's new sitespecific production about illegal aliens being smuggled across the border …
Leaping about the stage three years ago in Broadway's "Brief Encounter," Tristan Sturrock seemed to defy gravity. So it's shocking to learn that he came very close to not being able to do th…
Who would have thought a play titled "The Dance of Death" would be one of the funniest shows in town?
August Strindberg hardly has a reputation as a cutup. But the Red Bull Theater's revival…
Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's musical based on the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale receives a Broadway revival.read more
Right now on Broadway, you can see a fake Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons or ersatz versions of Motown's Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye.Or, you can see the former Young Rascals " the real one…
Ancient Rome doesn't seem quite the same in the Royal Shakespeare Company's new "Julius Caesar": Reset in modern-day Africa, with an all-black cast, it opens with much of the ensemble millin…
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…
