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Shapiro on Theater

 Kristen Norine and Paul McElwee in Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium's production of 'Misalliance.' (Photo courtesy of Johanna Austin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Jeffrey Coon as the catcher in Eagle Theatre's production of 'Catch Me If You Can.' (Photo courtesy of Chris Miller.)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Jeffrey Coon as the catcher in Eagle Theatre's production of 'Catch Me If You Can.' (Photo courtesy of Chris Miller.)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Kathleen Wallace and Greg Wood in Walnut Street Theatre's production of 'Private Lives.' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Aimé Donna Kelly (left) and Lynnette R. Freeman in InterAct Theatre Company's world-premiere production of 'The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane,' a play it commissioned. (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate3Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Aimé Donna Kelly (left) and Lynnette R. Freeman in InterAct Theatre Company's world-premiere production of 'The Dangerous House of Pretty Mbane,' a play it commissioned. (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines/Plate3Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Sam Henderson and Gina Martino in Luna Theater Company's production of 'Closer.' (Photo courtesy of Kate Raines, Plate3 Photography)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Julianna Zinkel and Craig Spidle  in Arden Theatre Company's production of Michael Hollinger's new play 'Under the Skin' -- one of a number of world premieres here during this second half of the theater season. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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, ...

9 years ago

 The cast of Mauckingbird Theatre Company's production of 'Hot 'n' Cole,' from left: Michelle Eugene, Luke Brahdt, Nicole Renna, John McCarthy, Jenna Roglaski, and Philip Anthony Wilson.  (Photo courtesy of Luis Fernando Rodriguez)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Ian Merrill Peakes  (left) and Harry Smith in Wilma Theater's production of 'The Body of an American.' (Photo courtesy of Alexander Iziliaev)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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: & ...

9 years ago

 Bill Van Horn and Davy Raphaely in  'A Life in the Theatre' at Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Patrice Covington, in gold outfit, as Martha Reeves (from Martha and the Vandellas) in 'Motown: The Musical' at the Academy of Music. (Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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 Sean Thompson (in front), leads the student rebels in Media Theatre's production of 'Les Misérables.' (Photo courtesy of Maura McConnell)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Julia Higdon and, in the background, Tommy Schimmel in 'The 1.1 Holiday Revue Special' from Brian Sanders' JUNK dance company. (Photo courtesy of Ted Lieverman)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Emiley Kiser as Alice in Quintessence Theatre’s production of 'Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland.' (Photo by Shawn May.)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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