Shapiro on Theater

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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