Shapiro on Theater

Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.

Hip-hop performers argue over the purpose of a public forum.

At a huge event with four tenors at a stadium in Paris, what could go wrong? Everything.

A homicide case, dissected in a jury deliberation room.

It's not your high-school teacher's Shakespeare.

A student confronts her prof with allegations of sexual abuse. Was he simply patronizing, or was he pushing limits?

Harold Pinter's quiet depiction of a love triangle, in a production that highlights its strength.

The script to the musical isn't so sterling, and the production tries to make it something it's not. So come for the show's well-written music.

Anthony Lawton is the storyteller in this recreation of the tale of transformation.

The musical adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's fantasy brings the book's cartoonish — and nasty — characters alive.

Two graduate students, into their work but aloof from themselves

The musical, in a sterling production, does justice to Alice Walker's book.

The ghost of John Barrymore is the liveliest part of the play, and surely of this production.

Nora, who walks out the door at the end of Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, is back.

The war hero Achilles and his friend, Petroclus, consider their love and interdependence.