1,115 stories by "Frank Scheck"
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…
'Do you believe that free will is just an illusion?" Rob Drummond asks in "Bullet Catch." Whether you do or not, you'll willingly suspend your disbelief watching this mesmerizing solo show, …
Radio drama is alive and well and playing at a theater near you.
So hopes Air Pirates Radio Theater, whose wacky on-air comedies " replete with a game audience providing sound effects " have…
It's hard to figure out exactly where to look while watching "The Intergalactic Nemesis Book One: Target Earth." Geared for kids ages 7 and older, this new "live-action graphic novel" is lit…
'Finks" feels personal. And with good reason: This drama about Jack and Madeline Lee Gilford's struggles during the show-business blacklist of the '50s was written by their son Joe Gilford. …
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…
'it's not like a cabaret," gushed Elaine Stritch. "It's like all my friends in New York got together!" And those were some friends, indeed. For the opening night Tuesday of her Café Carlyle…
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…
Despite its title song dropping more F-bombs than you'd think possible in a single number, "F#%king Up Everything" is actually a sweetly old-fashioned boy-meets-girl musical. Set in hipster-…
Not aimed at the typical-aged theater audience, "Piggy Nation: The Musical!" has a bouncy score and just enough bodily function jokes to keep the kid-crowd for which it's intended. As an add…
The ominous feeling begins upon walking into the darkened theater, where three rusty claw-foot bathtubs are sitting on the stage. And it only gets spookier at the beginning of "The Drowning …
'we're gonna have some fun, don't worry," Bello Nock assured a young boy's nervous parents as he gently escorted their son to the stage.
They had reason to worry: After all, they'd just see…
You might say "For Love," about the tortured romantic lives of three 30-something women, is like "Sex and the City" " only the city is economically depressed Dublin, and the sex is more ofte…
Cirque du Soleil's new show is a poetic meditation on the evolution of life, from its amphibious beginnings to modern-day Homo sapiens longing to transcend the earth's gravity and reach the …
You'll definitely want to review those program notes before watching "Neva," the ponderous play by Chile's Guillermo Calderón that just opened at the Public.
It's set in a St. Petersburg …
It was the riot that sparked the gay-rights revolution " the 1969 brawl outside Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn. And it's treated with blazing theatricality in Ike Holter's "Hit the Wall,"…
A.R. Gurney has written so many political plays lately ("O Jerusalem," "Mrs. Farnsworth") that it's easy to forget that he once dealt almost exclusively with WASPs and their foibles. The Kee…
'The Wild Bride" is based on an ancient story later turned into a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, and it's grim indeed. Here we have the spectacle of a father cutting off his daughter's ha…
Edie Falco stars in this Off-Broadway drama by "Nurse jackie" producer Liz Flahive about a woman who abandons her family. read more
When the curtain opens, we see a solitary figure striking some acrobatic dance moves, twirling gracefully on a mountaintop. He's the aptly named Lone, a laborer working on the transcontinent…
Judging by his first commercially produced play, "On the Head of a Pin," Frank Winters is a promising playwright " especially for a 24-year-old.
All he really needs is a good editor.
This co…
The luridly poetic language is there, and so are some fine performances. But there's not much more to Mississippi Mud Productions' bare-bones revival of Tennessee Williams' "Suddenly Last Su…
Ayn Rand-style self-interest runs amok in this drama, featuring Zosia Mamet and Matt Lauria, about the aftermath of a college party sex scandal.read more
A young genius tangles with an older, respected rival in "Isaac's Eye." But while that notion sounds familiar, Lucas Hnath's new drama " about the tug of war between Isaac Newton and renowne…
Three performers, cardboard cutouts, tiny puppets and a pair of swords. That's all it takes for Scotland's Visible Fictions theater company to present "The Mark of Zorro," their charmingly l…
