New York Post theater critic and arts writer Frank Scheck has been covering film, theater and music for more than 25 years. Currently the New York arts correspondent for the Hollywood Reporter, he was previously the editor of STAGES Magazine and the chief theater critic for the Christian Science Monitor. His writing has appeared in such publications as the New York Daily News, In New York, Playbill, and various newspapers around the country. He has provided on-air commentary for the BBC, MSNBC and the Fox Business Channel, and has served as the Vice-President of the Drama Desk and is a longtime member of the New York Drama Critics Circle. He received a B.A. from Columbia University and a Master's Degree from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Communications.
Bachelor parties gone wild have gotten lots of stage and screen time. But if Leslye Headland's wickedly comic play is any indication, bachelorette parties are more fun. Not that the girls in "Bachelorette," part of...
July 27, 2010 12:00 AM
For a show that touches down in a half-dozen places, "See Rock City & Other Destinations" doesn't really get very far. In fact, this evening of musical vignettes, which opened last night, feels more like it's running...
July 26, 2010 12:00 AM
If his plays are any indication, Mark St. Germain must throw some mighty in teresting dinner parties. One recent play, "Camping With Henry and Tom," depicted a meeting of Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Warren G. Harding...
July 24, 2010 12:00 AM
Before "Viagara Falls" begins, we hear Frank Sinatra singing "High Hopes." That's what its producers have, if they think this hopelessly retro comedy will last. Maybe in Boca Raton, but not off-Broadway's cavernous...
July 22, 2010 12:00 AM
Since it opened a year and a half ago, nothing about this acclaimed revival of "Our Town" has suggested that it might become a star vehicle. Stripped to its raw essentials and shorn of the sentimentality that's...
July 20, 2010 12:00 AM
Don't expect any infectious covers of pop hits at "With Glee." This new musical from the Prospect Theater Company -- about five troubled boys who bond at a boarding school -- shares only the one word with the hit TV...
July 20, 2010 12:00 AM
It was like watching Clark Kent turn into Superman. For the first half of his Broadway concert, Harry Connick Jr., wearing a dark suit and tie, dutifully performed the standards that brought him pop success more...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AM
Civics lessons are rarely as much fun as the one offered in "We the People: America Rocks!" This summer's free musical for kids, courtesy of Theaterworks USA, features the Founding Fathers in a way you've never...
July 19, 2010 12:00 AM
It's tough to criticize a theater company whose mission is to "promote mercy, beauty and truth through performance and service." That is the self-professed goal of the youth-oriented JARADOA (Just a Roomful of Artists...
July 12, 2010 12:00 AM
Ayn Rand's 1934 play "Ideal" has never been performed before in New York. And judging by the off-putting off-Broadway production that opened Wednesday night, fans of the philosopher and writer known for "The...
June 25, 2010 12:00 AMLee Blessing's last play about an American president -- the Tony-nominated "A Walk in the Woods" -- featured a chief executive discussing nuclear disarmament with his Soviet counterpart. It's a distressing sign of...
June 23, 2010 12:00 AMAccording to play wright Michele Willens' bio, as a journalist, she invented the word "tween." She also edited the book "Face It: What Women Really Feel as Their Looks Change." Clearly, she's adept at sussing out the...
June 22, 2010 12:00 AM
With her wholesome beauty, big-toothed grin and powerful voice, Sutton Foster has become Broadway's go-to musical sweetheart -- albeit one with a wicked comic sensibility. These attributes are on ample display in her...
June 17, 2010 12:00 AM
Even if your only equine encounter was a childhood pony ride, you're bound to be enthralled by "Cavalia." This dreamlike spectacle exploring the relationship between man and horse showcases the latter in its high...
June 14, 2010 12:00 AMIf good intentions made for good theater, "Prophecy" would be a master piece. Karen Malpede's highly ambitious politically themed play incorporates, among other elements, the Old Testament story of Abraham, Sarah and...
June 09, 2010 12:00 AM
The National Yiddish Theatre-Folksbiene is 95 years old, but you'd never guess it from its buoyantly fresh new musical "The Adventures of Hershele Ostropolyer." Based on an old Yiddish play and performed in Yiddish...
June 07, 2010 12:00 AMIt's all there: the fake wood paneling, the beanbag chair, rock and movie posters, the bowl of chips. The set of "Seven Minutes in Heaven," about a teenage party held in a suburban basement rec room, will instantly...
June 07, 2010 12:00 AM
Tiny Tim aside, few performers can get away with playing a ukulele. But Nellie McKay, strumming away on it at Feinstein's, manages to make it seem both adorable and utterly natural. Her show, "Normal as Blueberry...
June 04, 2010 12:00 AMIt would be wrong to suggest sneaking in at intermission, but you may want to at least bring a good book for the first half of "Marathon 2010: Series A," the first installment of the Ensemble Studio Theatre's annual...
May 27, 2010 12:00 AM
Elvis is nowhere in sight in "Graceland" -- and there's not much grace here, either. This comedy/drama by young Chicago playwright Ellen Fairey, now getting its New York premiere by Lincoln Center's LCT3 offshoot,...
May 25, 2010 12:00 AMConversions seem to be in vogue these days, judging by the recent "Circumcise Me" and now "Hebrew School Dropout," Dave Konig's account of how he went from Judaism to Catholicism and back again. But while the...
May 25, 2010 12:00 AMIrish lyricism and Western tropes blend uneasily in "White Woman Street," which features some of the most loquacious cowboys ever heard on the range. This 1916-set drama about a band of outlaws boasts the trademark...
May 24, 2010 12:00 AM
A master class in evil is being offered at the West side Theatre, where one of the devil's chief underlings -- His Abysmal Sublimity Screwtape -- is the central character of this adaptation of C.S. Lewis' "The...
May 13, 2010 12:00 AM
It seems unfair to criticize a theatrical work for being too ambitious, but "Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play" fairly begs for it. This triptych of one-acts is stuffed with so many ideas and themes that it falls apart under...
May 13, 2010 12:00 AM
With such works as "That Pretty Pretty; Or, The Rape Play" and the new "Lascivious Something," playwright Sheila Callaghan shows a precocious talent for . . . titles. Unfortunately, she shows less skill at the...
May 12, 2010 12:00 AM
'Through the Night" has been previ ously seen in Los Angeles and New Jersey, but it's perhaps found its most fitting home at the Riverside Theatre, housed within the church of the same name. This intense solo piece by...
May 10, 2010 12:00 AMThe subterranean the ater complex New World Stages has basically become a retirement home for Broadway shows past their prime ("Avenue Q," "39 Steps"). Now, with Bob Andron's farce "White's Lies," it's also trafficking...
May 07, 2010 12:00 AMJudy Collins has become an un likely mainstay at the swanky Café Carlyle in the last few years, singing to members of the Woodstock generation now sipping their pinot noirs. But there's something so sweetly pure...
May 06, 2010 12:00 AMPlaywright Annie Baker recently told an interviewer that she was interested in exploring the idea of boredom. She seems to have followed through in “The Aliens,” now getting its world premiere at the Rattlestick. But...
May 04, 2010 5:08 PMNever mind those cute kids wailing away in "American Idiot." If you want to hear songs of rage and defiance sung with conviction, head to Brooklyn's St. Ann's Warehouse, where the Young@Heart Chorus -- ages 73 to 90 --...
April 27, 2010 12:00 AM
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