Shapiro on Theater

Part cabaret, part improvisation, part variety show and all smiles, “Making Spirits Bright” is appropriately named. The origi ...

Steve Solomon is performing his own “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, I’m Home for the Holidays” at ...

In modern times, we say “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but in 1740 a French woman named Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de ...

An ambitious undertaking called “The Sincerity Project” might be the most insincere thing going on a stage these days – whi ...

Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan —  boogeying like that? And wh ...

For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant producti ...

Down Cinderella’s way, the folks are out of kilter. One of the nasty stepsisters talks back to her mom and reels in disbelief when ...

The once and future King Arthur has never had it as good (or as goofy) as he’s having it these days and nights at People’s Li ...

Richard Feynman lived large, and what he got in return was large indeed. Feynman, who died in 1988 at the age of 69, was that most vision ...

And now, Neil Simon – seriously. The playwright who gave us plenty of laughs in such New York-based shows as “Barefoot in the Par ...

“The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence,” being given an able production by Azuka Theatre, is supposed to be a play ab ...

You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood ...

“I’m practically perfect in every way,” Mary Poppins sings to her two young charges, but she could be describing the Wa ...

What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abb ...

The difference between right and wrong doesn’t figure into the ways the characters think in “Red Speedo.” But what& ...