
Shapiro on Theater
Review: A ‘Herringbone’ that’s checkered
From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Bach at Leipzig,’ accompanied by lesser colleagues
The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the g ...
9 years ago
3 Jersey Shore theaters to check out in their summer season
Ah, the Shore: Surf and cotton candy, sand and fine dining, Skee-Ball and theater. … Theater? Yes — professional thea ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Twelfth Night’ in a comedy of real-life errors
There are enough challenges in a Shakespeare play for any troupe of actors, and often for audiences. But on Thursday, the opening-night c ...
9 years ago
Review: A seashore ‘Moon Over Buffalo’
Even as farces go, “Moon Over Buffalo” is dumber than dumb. It’s also good fun at Cape May Stage, where producing artis ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Deathtrap,’ timed for thrills
You can hear a lot of gasping at Bucks County Playhouse these nights, and not primarily because “Deathtrap” is at times an an ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and their labours of love
Can there be anything more light-headed in all of Shakespeare’s canon as “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a comedy about ...
9 years ago
Review: The turmoil of ‘The Toughest Boy in Philadelphia’
The suffragettes of the early 20th century were looking for political emancipation, they weren’t looking for Betty Friedan and wome ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Miz Martha’ Washington’s dreamy dilemma
On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lad ...
9 years ago
‘Unconstitutional’ Colin Quinn brings a lot of Philadelphia to one-man show
After comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn decided he could make an entire show out of skewering the U.S. Constitution and our rel ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: The universal ‘Fiddler on the Roof’
On the same day, Friday, that news outlets were showing images of some of the half-million Iraqis fleeing Mosul after Islamic extremists ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll’ and other miscellany
The young and versatile actor Eric Scotolati, who in four seasons has appeared with at least nine theater companies here, is being put to ...
9 years ago
Review: Surprise, surprise! ‘Ritu Comes Home’
The funny new play called “Ritu Comes Home,” is a paradox: It’s as urbane as it is juvenile. That’s because its m ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘The Screwtape Letters’ from Hell to the stage
If the devil really is in the details, then C.S. Lewis got it right. His 1942 book, “The Screwtape Letters,” is a point-by-po ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Michael the Rebel,’ justice and the power of obsession
A new theater company called Humble Treasure Productions, supported by donors to the Web’s Kickstarter and founded by a young theat ...
9 years ago
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