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Shapiro on Theater

 Kirk Wendell Brown (left) and Peter DeLaurier in Lantern Theater Company's production of 'The Train Driver'  (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘The Train Driver’ and his derailment

It’s an all-too-common story around the world: a train comes down the tracks, a despondent person runs in its way. It’ ...

8 years ago

 Charlie DelMarcelle and Liz Filios in Inis Nua Theatre Company's production of 'Midsummer [a play with songs]' (Photo courtesy of Katie Reing)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: A smoldering ‘Midsummer’ love

The endearing little show called “Midsummer,” in a smartly done production by Inis Nua Theatre Company, is told much like a s ...

8 years ago

Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Sneak peek: New stuff, locally grown

Next season’s production lineups are floating in like spring breezes. The area’s 50-plus professional stage companies – the ...

8 years ago

 Rocky impersonator and actor John Monforto in character.  (Emma Lee/for NewsWorks)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Rocky, super salesman

Sylvester Stallone’s fictional character Rocky is once again fighting in the ring, this time in a musical that’s settled onto ...

8 years ago

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 Anthony Lawton and Ellie Mooney in 'The Rise and Fall of Little Voice' at Walnut Street Theatre's third-floor Independence Studio. (Photo courtesy of Walnut Street Theatre)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘The Rise and Fall of Little Voice,’ but mostly the fall

For perhaps 10 minutes, an actress named Ellie Mooney gets, and grabs, her place in the spotlight. In a remarkable explosion of ve ...

8 years ago

 THREE CHEKHOV SISTERS: From left, Sarah Sanford (as Olga), Mary Tuomanen (as Irina) and Katharine Powell (as Masha) as the 'Three Sisters' in the Arden Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's play. (Photo courtesy of Mark Garvin)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Reviews: ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ — Mr. Chekhov, are you ready for your closeup?

Where is Anton Chekhov when you need him? The great 19th-century Russian playwright is probably tucked soundly into some celestial ...

8 years ago

 The ensemble of 'The West' in an early rehearsal shot. It's at Off-Broad Street Theater in Center City. (Photo courtesy of JJ Tiziou)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Winning ‘The West’ with shtik and bravura

Here’s how the West was won: with toe-tapping music, old-fashioned bravura, a good deal of mime and plenty of movement. And ...

8 years ago

 Kate Czajkowski and Keith J. Conallen in the world premiere of Paula Vogel's 'Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq' at Wilma Theater (Photo courtesy of Alexander Iziliaev)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Still at war, ‘Don Juan Comes Home from Iraq’

What do you leave out? That may be a question for Paula Vogel, the celebrated playwright whose new work opened in a world premiere at Wil ...

8 years ago

 From left: Bobby Steggert, Frederick Weller, Grayson Taylor, and Tyne Daly in Terrence McNally's 'Mothers and Sons' on Broadway (Photo courtesy of Joan Marcus)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: From Bucks County to Broadway, ‘Mothers and Sons’

“Mothers and Sons,” has gone the way of several plays that first came to life on the Bucks County Playhouse stage: Broadway. ...

8 years ago

 From left, Megan McDermott, Bruce Graham, David Edwards, Carl Wallnau and George Deihl in Bristol Riverside Theatre’s production of 'Laughter on the 23rd Floor' (Photo courtesy of Bristol Riverside Theatre)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’ at times

Bah-da-BOOM! That’s the nutshell description of Neil Simon’s “Laughter on the 23rd Floor,” the compendiu ...

8 years ago

 Mary Martello (left), Jane Ridley and Damon Bonetti in Walnut Street Theatre's production of
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: When ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ is a potent mix

If the Walnut Street Theatre, which is 205 years old, doesn’t know how to gently roast an old chestnut to bring out its taste, then ...

8 years ago

 Sam Sherburne (right) portraying John W. Hinckley Jr., with Russ Widdall in New City Stage Company's world-premiere production of 'Hinckley' (Photo  courtesy of Ginger Dayle)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: The demons and delusions of ‘Hinckley’

When your role model is Lee Harvey Oswald, you know you’re in trouble. Except that John W. Hinckley Jr. didn’t. He als ...

8 years ago

 Renee Richman-Weisband and Rob Hargraves in Isis Productions' 'Accomplice.' (Photo courtesy of Evan Rosen)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: ‘Accomplice’ to a crazy mix-up

What happens when the actors and the characters they portray get all mixed up? You get Rupert Holmes’ clever and bizarre “Acc ...

8 years ago

 Andy Karl as Rocky in the new Broadway musical version of the film, which opened Thursday night. (Photograph courtesy of Matthew Murphy)
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: Broadway’s ‘Rocky,’ but still Philly’s fighter

Can a bum from the neighborhood ever be anything more? You sense the underlying sadness right away. It gave the original “Ro ...

8 years ago

 Drucie McDaniel (left) and Maureen Torsney-Weir in Azuka Theatre's production of the new play,
Shapiro on Theater
Arts & Entertainment

Review: A ‘Skin & Bone’ with plenty of meat

Down in the Florida panhandle, where the Old South still reigns, two sisters and their house rapidly decline. The ladies’ knees and ...

8 years ago

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