Shapiro on Theater

The play offers characters who deliver their own points of view about being moms — ideas that illuminate the subject, then let you think for yourself.

This evocative play about a child of war features a complex story and a fine cast.

“Boycott Esther” playwright Emily Acker creates an imperfect onstage drama out of her career setback because of Harvey Weinstein’s fall from grace.

Playwright Kate Tarker offers up the absurdist tale of a shepherd, his wife and Oedipus, the son who left them.

Sarah Ruhl wrote the play as a 70th birthday gift for her mother, who portrayed Pan as a teenager in Iowa.

Afghanistan and Omaha are the settings for an alternately funny and sad drama about the meaning of struggle.

The play has been the object of scorn and disgust for its subject matter and even for its title. But this flawed presentation satisfies as a glimpse of theater history.

Movement may be more subtle in this Philadelphia production of the Broadway dazzler, but the result is striking and eloquent in its own right.

The ‘Few,’ by MacArthur “genius grant” fellow Samuel D. Hunter, strikes common chords about loneliness and connection and continues through April 7.

The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

Gimmickry overtakes a play bombarded by on-stage directions and a prescribed lack of rehearsal.

Strong women take the microphone.

A photographer, a housewife and a show that doesn't know when to stop.

A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.