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Shapiro on Theater

 Jennifer Childs and Anthony Lawton in 1812 Productions' version of 'Intimate Exchanges.' The show opens its season and is also part of the Philly Fringe Festival. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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 Members of the Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure, the resenters of 'Experiment #39 Old City' in the Fringe Festival. They are, from left, Andrew Goldberg, Emily Rea, Liza Wade Green and Radoslaw Konopka. (Photo courtesy of Steven Dufala)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Diners gathered last week for a test run at La Peg, the restaurant that will open this weekend inside the new FringeArts building, headquarters of the Fringe Festival. The restaurant is also the site of the popular nightly after-show Fringe bar. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Monko)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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 (From left) Scott Greer, Rachel Camp, Sarah Gliko, Alex Keiper and Caroline Dooner of the ensemble in Arden Theatre Company's production of 'Parade,' which received 15 Barrymore Award nominations,  more any other  production in the 2013-14 theater season here. Gliko and Keiper each received supporting actress nominations. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Alex Kryger (left) and Chris Melohn in 'The Haunted Host,' part of Quince Productions' GayFest!(Photo courtesy of John Donges)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Around the seance table, left to right: Thomas Grube, Isabella Knight, Julian Elfer, Jennifer Harmon and Michelle Eugene, in Cape May Stage's production of 'Blithe Spirit.' (Photo courtesy of Aleksey Photography.)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Dani Solomon (left), Alexander Kacala and Amber Orion in 'Some Are People' at Quince Productions' GayFest!
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The fragility of ‘The Glass Menagerie’

“The Glass Menagerie,” Tennessee Williams’ great memory play, boasts one of the stage’s great characters, too – ...

9 years ago

 Kash Goins in 'Death of a Salesman' at Plays & Playrs Theatre (Photo courtesy of Katie Balun)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 The company of 'Henry IV: Your Prince and Mine' at war in the open-air collaborative   production by Shakespeare in Clark Park and Team Sunshine Performance Corporation. (Image courtesy of  Kyle Cassidy)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Kelechi Ezie (left) greets KJ Hippensteel and Christopher John O'Neill, as two would-be Mormon proselytisers, in 'The Book of Mormon' at the Forrest Theatre
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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 Ian Bedford as Macbeth and Susan Riley Stevens as Lady Macbeth in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production.(Photo courtesy of Lee A. Butz)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The ambitious ‘Macbeth’

Even for “Macbeth,” the current production at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is dark and stark – often beautifully s ...

9 years ago

 Jed Peterson as Zorro and Elisa Pupko (both center) with (from left) Mark Edward Lang, James Rana, Suzanne Dawson, Evan Smilyk, and Mark Lazar behind, in East Lynne Theater Company's production of 'Zorro!' (Photo courtesy of Gayle Stahlhuth)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 As the audience gathers toward them, Adam Kerbel (back to camera) talks with Aimé Donna Kelly in Applied Mechanics'
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

 Playwright Christopher Durang as Vanya and Marilu Henner as Masha in Durang's
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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 ...

9 years ago

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