Shapiro on Theater

The annual Philly Fringe Festival opens Friday night, but the curtain rose early on one entry that’s also the season starter for 18 ...

A friend complained that the trouble with the Fringe Festival, the heady conglomeration of theater, dance and art that opens on Friday ni ...

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 ...

The Barrymore Awards – the way Philadelphia’s theater community celebrates its accomplishments in a glittery night out – are back a ...

It’s obvious that “The Haunted Host” – now 50 years old, and among the first openly gay-themed plays staged in what w ...

Ghosts are nothing new to Cape May – you can even take walking or trolley tours to hear about their alleged Victorian and post-Victoria ...

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 ...

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

The delusional Willy Loman, head of the household in Arthur Miller’s now-classic “Death of a Salesman,” is one of the A ...

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 ...

The shocking thing about the Broadway blockbuster “The Book of Mormon,” whose excellently performed national tour has settled ...

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

Long before Los Angelinos began fighting monumental traffic and battling smog, Zorro was in town slicing up the colonial Mexican authorit ...

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 ...

Bucks County Playhouse is doing “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” just the way it should be done: as a whole-hearted goof ...