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Shapiro on Theater

 Ben Dibble in Flashpoint Theatre Company's production of 'Herringbone' (Photo courtesy of Ian Guzzone)
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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

 David Ingram (left) and Kevin Bergen in  People's Light & Theatre Company's production of 'Bach at Leipzig' (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
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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

 Cyrus Newitt, Ginna Hoben, Suzan Perry, Joseph Robinson, and Marianne Tatum are shown in a production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

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

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 Jessica DalCanton as Olivia in Commonwealth Classic Theatre Company's 'Twelfth Night' opening performance, at the Parkway outside the central Free Library. (Photo courtesy of Howard Shapiro)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘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

 Marianne Tatum and Cyrus Newitt in Cape May Stage's production of 'Moon Over Buffalo' (Photo courtesy of Aleksey Photography)
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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

 Marsha Mason (left) and Angela Pierce in
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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

 Luigi Sottile (left) and Zack Robidas as
Shapiro on Theater
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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

 K.O. Del Marcelle (left) as
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Arts & Entertainment

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

 In Flashpoint Theatre's production of 'The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington,' from left: Darryl Gene Daughtry Jr., Steven Wright, Taysha Canales , and Jaylene Clark Owens surround Nancy Boykin as Martha Washington. (Image courtesy of Ian Paul Guzzone)
Shapiro on Theater
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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

 Colin Quinn in his one-man show, 'Unconstitutional,' which he's performing at Philadelphia Theatre Company.
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‘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

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 Joe Vincent as Tevye and Anne Kanengeiser as his wife in the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival production of
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Review: 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

 Eric Scotolati in the one-person series of monologues, 'Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll,' produced by Plays & Players
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Arts & Entertainment

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

 In InterAct Theatre's world premiere production of
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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

 Anthony Lawton in his adaptation of C. S. Lewis
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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

 Tasha Milkman, with Richard Chan as 'Michael the Rebel' in the play from Humble Treasure Productions, in collaboration with the German Society of Pennsylvania. (Photo courtesy of Alex Udowenko)
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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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