Shapiro on Theater

From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...

The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the g ...

Ah, the Shore: Surf and cotton candy, sand and fine dining, Skee-Ball and theater. … Theater? Yes — professional thea ...

There are enough challenges in a Shakespeare play for any troupe of actors, and often for audiences. But on Thursday, the opening-night c ...

Even as farces go, “Moon Over Buffalo” is dumber than dumb. It’s also good fun at Cape May Stage, where producing artis ...

You can hear a lot of gasping at Bucks County Playhouse these nights, and not primarily because “Deathtrap” is at times an an ...

Can there be anything more light-headed in all of Shakespeare’s canon as “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a comedy about ...

The suffragettes of the early 20th century were looking for political emancipation, they weren’t looking for Betty Friedan and wome ...

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 ...

After comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn decided he could make an entire show out of skewering the U.S. Constitution and our rel ...

On the same day, Friday, that news outlets were showing images of some of the half-million Iraqis fleeing Mosul after Islamic extremists ...

The young and versatile actor Eric Scotolati, who in four seasons has appeared with at least nine theater companies here, is being put to ...

The funny new play called “Ritu Comes Home,” is a paradox: It’s as urbane as it is juvenile. That’s because its m ...

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 ...

A new theater company called Humble Treasure Productions, supported by donors to the Web’s Kickstarter and founded by a young theat ...