Shapiro on Theater
Fringe Festival review: ‘Intimate Exchanges’
The annual Philly Fringe Festival opens Friday night, but the curtain rose early on one entry that’s also the season starter for 18
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The fringiest of the Philly Fringe Festival (we think)
A friend complained that the trouble with the Fringe Festival, the heady conglomeration of theater, dance and art that opens on Friday ni
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17 shows I want to see at the 2014 Fringe Festival
It’s a crap shoot – and that’s one of the best things about the Fringe Festival. So often, you don’t know what you’re going to
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Philly theater’s Barrymore Awards are back, with a batch of nominees
The Barrymore Awards – the way Philadelphia’s theater community celebrates its accomplishments in a glittery night out – are back a
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Review: The reappearance of ‘The Haunted Host’
It’s obvious that “The Haunted Host” – now 50 years old, and among the first openly gay-themed plays staged in what w
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Review: Conjuring up ‘Blithe Spirit’
Ghosts are nothing new to Cape May – you can even take walking or trolley tours to hear about their alleged Victorian and post-Victoria
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Review: ‘Some Are People,’ some are afraid
Some people look for new turns in their lives, yet are deeply afraid they’ll find them. Three of those people are the characters of
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Review: The fragility of ‘The Glass Menagerie’
“The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ great memory play, boasts one of the stage’s great characters, too –
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Review: ‘Death of a Salesman’ — different color, same striking tone
The delusional Willy Loman, head of the household in Arthur Miller’s now-classic “Death of a Salesman,” is one of the A
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Review: ‘Henry IV’ with a cast of, well, lots
Staging an all-out war with eight or nine cast members playing both sides is a mighty challenge for some directors of Shakespeare. But no
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Review: ‘The Book of Mormon’ and the money-reaping quality of questionable taste
The shocking thing about the Broadway blockbuster “The Book of Mormon,” whose excellently performed national tour has settled
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Review: The ambitious ‘Macbeth’
Even for “Macbeth,” the current production at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is dark and stark – often beautifully s
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Review: Swashing, buckling once again with ‘Zorro!’
Long before Los Angelinos began fighting monumental traffic and battling smog, Zorro was in town slicing up the colonial Mexican authorit
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Review: ‘We Are Bandits’ in a single community
Theater happens wherever it’s made, and in two places at once: the theater itself and whatever place is created on the stage. In th
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Review: ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ and the playwright, too
Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof
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