Shapiro on Theater

It’s hard to tell what’s more impressive about “Arcadia” – Tom Stoppard’s brilliant boil-over of ideas or ...

Sometimes you just have to bring in the big guns to wake up the near-dead – and in “The Addams Family,” of course, plenty o ...

It’s no wonder that audiences love “Love Letters” – even though it’s a play with basic costumes, little ma ...

It may not be everyone’s idea of “theater,” but the final Philly Fringe-produced show of the festival is nevertheless a ...

It happens all the time: Everything seems to be pumping along in an organization, and then some boob with bad ideas comes in and it’ ...

I feel good! I feel mean! I feel strong! That’s the mantra of the football team called the Owls. (Not th ...

A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; “The Body Lautrec,” and “The Rape of Lucrece.“ THE BODY LAUT ...

A trio of Fringe Festival reviews from Howie Shapiro; “Broken Wing,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame…a Mute Play, ...

The extraordinary, brazenly abstract “The Four Seasons Restaurant,” which FringeArts has brought to this year’s festiva ...

If the smooth, feisty production of “9 to 5: The Musical” that opened on the Walnut Street Theatre’s main stage Wednesd ...

The theater season has begun, and in a region with about 50 professional theater companies you can get anything you want over a few month ...

The problem for Ronnie and Jules is not that they’re gay and falling for each other. The problem is, the relationship appears star- ...

A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s “Rhinoceros,” and “White Rabbit R ...

A trio of Fringe Festival reviews from Howie Shapiro; “The Adults,” “99 Breakups,” and “Suspended.” ...

The 2014 Philly Fringe Festival had officially begun, with 135 shows and attractions in a wide swath of the city. But nowhere was the act ...