Shapiro on Theater
Review: ‘Making Spirits Bright’ for sure
Part cabaret, part improvisation, part variety show and all smiles, “Making Spirits Bright” is appropriately named. The origi
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9 years ago
Review: Italian, Jewish and ‘Home for the Holidays,’ both of them
Steve Solomon is performing his own “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish, I’m Home for the Holidays” at
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ straight-up
In modern times, we say “don’t judge a book by its cover,” but in 1740 a French woman named Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de
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9 years ago
Review: ‘The Sincerity Project’ is how you define it
An ambitious undertaking called “The Sincerity Project” might be the most insincere thing going on a stage these days – whi
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9 years ago
Review: The winter return of ‘This Is the Week That Is’
Why are “The Supremes” — Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, Sonya Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — boogeying like that? And wh
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Outside Mullingar’ and thoroughly inside Ireland
For an American playwright, John Patrick Shanley writes one heck of an Irish play. “Outside Mullingar,” in a radiant producti
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9 years ago
Review: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s different sort of ‘Cinderella’
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
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9 years ago
Review: The goofy side of King ‘Arthur’
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
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9 years ago
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Review: ‘QED’ and the nature of probability
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
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9 years ago
Review: Seriously ‘Lost in Yonkers’
And now, Neil Simon – seriously. The playwright who gave us plenty of laughs in such New York-based shows as “Barefoot in the Par
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9 years ago
Review: The curious play of ‘The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence’
“The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence,” being given an able production by Azuka Theatre, is supposed to be a play ab
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Blood Wedding’ with poetry and song
You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood
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9 years ago
Review: A ‘Mary Poppins’ that flies high
“I’m practically perfect in every way,” Mary Poppins sings to her two young charges, but she could be describing the Wa
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Review: Spooking the Marquis de Sade and his ‘Quills’
What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abb
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9 years ago
Review: ‘Red Speedo,’ white-hot lies
The difference between right and wrong doesn’t figure into the ways the characters think in “Red Speedo.” But what&
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9 years ago