Shapiro on Theater

In a one-man show filled with ideas, Aaron Davidman takes on the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and examines as many sides as he can find.

Management consultants try to devise a process for their product by plowing through any business model they can conjure. In this case, the product is death.

Dito van Reigersberg plays everyone, including Barbra Streisand, in a comedy set at the underground private mall she built to house her collections at her Malibu complex.

A one-woman play focuses on two very different family trips to explore her relationship with her father, his past and her present.

I'm swept away by Arden Theatre Company's new production of "Cabaret."

Pig Iron Theatre Company made its reputation by playing with forms as it developed the content of plays. Its new and most ambitious work ...

If you’re going to overdo the musical “A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” you may as well get a high-jinks ...

The powerful and haunting “We Shall Not Be Moved” that opened Saturday is not only a world-premiere opera, it’s a provo ...

A Billion Nights on EarthLittle Winslow, a character who may be 5 or 6 years of age, just can’t get to sleep. Or won’t. He ...

HomeIt all begins with a simple large frame. How it ends, I won’t say. With that frame, theater artist Geoff Sobelle begins to buil ...

Strange TenantsArresting in its weirdness and impressive in its quivers, jerks and writhing, “Strange Tenants” is about the w ...

FishtownHoly wireless tamale! We’ve given our credit cards to online sites, our Social Security numbers to Equifax and now, Interne ...

Eugène Ionesco’s The Bald SopranoIt’s a typical night at the Smiths: The conversation between them (or sometimes with no one ...

What makes an entry in the Philly Fringe Festival fringe-y? The annual festival of cutting-edge and often unusual work opens around the c ...

A list of Philly Fringe highlights is at the bottom of this article. The Philly ...