Shapiro on Theater
Review: ‘Misalliance’ misalligned
George Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance” is a rarely produced big blob of a play with a taxing first act and a second act th
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9 years ago
Review: A reimagined ‘Catch Me If You Can’
Sometimes, there’s no telling what will make it on Broadway or why, and “Catch Me If You Can” is a prime example. It
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9 years ago
Review: A reimagined ‘Catch Me If You Can’
Sometimes, there’s no telling what will make it on Broadway or why, and “Catch Me If You Can” is a prime example. It
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Private Lives’ on public display
About 85 years ago, when Noël Coward was writing his now-classic “Private Lives,” name-calling was probably pretty funny. A
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9 years ago
Review: Inside ‘The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane’
A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th
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9 years ago
Review: Inside ‘The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane’
A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Closer’ and in love, four ways
The minute we lay eyes on Alice, which is the minute Patrick Marber’s play “Closer” begins, one thought comes to m
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9 years ago
Light the Lights! The spring season opens with our NewsWorks theater preview
The second half of the theater season is beginning to bud, and with about 50 professional theater companies in metropolitan Philadelphia,
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Hot ‘n’ Cole’ in champagne flutes filled with Porter
“Times have changed,” Cole Porter wrote as the first three words to “Anything Goes,” and the current Mauckingbird
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9 years ago
Review: ‘The Body of an American,’ the travails of a playwright
A writer named Dan O’Brien tuned into “Fresh Air” on August 27, 2007, and this is what Terry Gross was saying:
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9 years ago
Review: ‘A Life (or two) in the Theatre’
Are the best times in the theater when things go terribly wrong? Not in my experience, but the best times in David Mamet’s 1977 pla
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Motown: The Musical,’ with A and B sides
Nobody can tell a good story about Berry Gordy Jr. better than Berry Gordy Jr. And the bad ones? Well, some of them are even in “Mo
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9 years ago
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Review: ‘Les Misérables’ with imagery
Once upon a time anyone who wanted to professionally produce “Les Misérables” had to obey strict mandates that included usin
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9 years ago
Review: The wham-bam “1.1 Holiday Revue Special’
“The 1.1 Holiday Revue Special” is 1.1 hours of swooping and swirling fun, a kinetic and athletic display by five dancers in
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,’ fit for a trip
Holy mushrooms! Quintessence Theatre Group, the Mount Airy stage company devoted to the classics, is dressing Alice in her ’70
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9 years ago