Shapiro on Theater
Review: Nailing ‘Arcadia,’ brilliance, blather and all
It’s hard to tell what’s more impressive about “Arcadia” – Tom Stoppard’s brilliant boil-over of ideas or
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9 years ago
Review: ‘The Addams Family’ values
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
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9 years ago
Review: Genuine ‘Love Letters’
It’s no wonder that audiences love “Love Letters” – even though it’s a play with basic costumes, little ma
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival review: ‘100% Philadelphia,’ really
It may not be everyone’s idea of “theater,” but the final Philly Fringe-produced show of the festival is nevertheless a
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9 years ago
Review: The double edge of ‘La Bête’
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’
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9 years ago
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Fringe Festival review: ‘In the Pony Palace’
I feel good! I feel mean! I feel strong! That’s the mantra of the football team called the Owls. (Not th
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival reviews: ‘The Body Lautrec’ and ‘The Rape of Lucrece’
A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; “The Body Lautrec,” and “The Rape of Lucrece.“
THE BODY LAUT
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Fringe Festival reviews: ‘Broken Wing,’ ‘The Hunchback of Notre Dame…a Mute Play’ and ‘Anna K’
A trio of Fringe Festival reviews from Howie Shapiro; “Broken Wing,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame…a Mute Play,
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival review: ‘The Four Seasons Restaurant’
The extraordinary, brazenly abstract “The Four Seasons Restaurant,” which FringeArts has brought to this year’s festiva
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9 years ago
Review: Punching in, at a greatly revamped ‘9 to 5’
If the smooth, feisty production of “9 to 5: The Musical” that opened on the Walnut Street Theatre’s main stage Wednesd
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9 years ago
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Places, everyone! Our NewsWorks fall theater preview opens the season
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
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival review: ‘Two Street’
The problem for Ronnie and Jules is not that they’re gay and falling for each other. The problem is, the relationship appears star-
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival reviews: ‘Rhinoceros’ and ‘White Rabbit Red Rabbit’
A duo of reviews from Howie Shapiro; Idiopathic Ridiculopathy Consortium’s “Rhinoceros,” and “White Rabbit R
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9 years ago
Fringe Festival reviews: ‘The Adults,’ ’99 Breakups’ and ‘Suspended’
A trio of Fringe Festival reviews from Howie Shapiro; “The Adults,” “99 Breakups,” and “Suspended.”
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9 years ago
Performance, party scene, new building and Martha: 2014 Fringe Festival begins [photos]
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
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9 years ago