1,115 stories by "Frank Scheck"
Spoiler alert: Clarence gets his wings.
That you know absolutely everything that's going to happen doesn't spoil the pleasures of "It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play." Anthony E. Pale…
It's apt that "The Songs I Love So Well" begins with that old chestnut "Danny Boy." This show starring venerable Irish musician Phil Coulter is suffused with such a warm glow of nostalgia th…
The action in the rock musical "Bare" revolves around a Catholic high school production of "Romeo and Juliet." But here, the star-crossed lovers are two gay teens whose illicit romance has t…
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…
Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Frances Conroy: They're just a few of the actors who began their careers touring with the Acting Company. That long list of illustrious alumni may one day include …
Given its title (and a subtitle that's not fit to print in a family newspaper), it's pretty clear that "Let's Kill Grandma This Christmas" isn't aimed at the Rockettes crowd. Or anyone else …
It wasn't easy being Zelda Fitzgerald. The talented wife of "Great Gatsby" writer F. Scott Fitzgerald suffered from bipolar disorder, for which she was often institutionalized. Her marriage …
Terrence McNally's new play conveys the chaotic backstage goings-on during the 1835 premiere of Vincenzo Bellini's final opera. read more
Best not to walk the kiddies past an open construction site after taking them to "Circus Oz: From the Ground Up." The Australian troupe's new show makes dangling high up on a construction be…
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…
Like a mordantly funny variation on "On Golden Pond," Bruce Graham's new play "The Outgoing Tide" wrests a surprising amount of humor from its dark tale of a family patriarch with dementia. …
No, that's not a typo: It's "Mies Julie," not "Miss Julie," that's playing St. Ann's Warehouse. This blistering adaptation of August Strindberg's 1888 classic is set in present-day South Afr…
You can hardly blame Tommy Tune for being a little self-congratulatory in "Taps, Tunes & Tall Tales," his new show at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. After all, the 6-foot-6 performer, directo…
Kathie Lee Gifford's musical depicts the rise and fall of famed '20s-era evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson.read more
'if it wasn't for you, we might all be eating with chopsticks."
Those comforting words are offered to a haunted-looking man in "Radiance," Cusi Cram's new play that marks the latest misstep…
In search of the perfect echo, Dusty Springfield recorded her vocals for her classic album "Dusty in Memphis" in a bathroom. That scene is dramatized in "Forever Dusty," the new bio-musical …
The past literally comes back to haunt the characters in "The Piano Lesson," August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Now, 22 years after its Broadway debut, this deeply moving work abo…
There's a lot of failed communication among the troubled characters in "The Good Mother," about a single mother with a disabled daughter. But the biggest failure is playwright Francine Volpe…
There's a lot of heat if not much substance in "Murder Ballad," the new rock opera now steaming up the intimate confines of the Manhattan Theatre Club's Stage II.
Starring Karen Olivo, Will …
Eve Ensler, who told us everything we ever wanted to know about vaginas ("The Vagina Monologues"), shifts her attention to the female teenage psyche in "Emotional Creature," a theatrical col…
East meets West with a bang in "Golden Child," David Henry Hwang's 1996 play at the Signature Theatre, which has dedicated a season to the "M. Butterfly" playwright. Set in early 20th-centur…
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…
