Shapiro on Theater
Review: The daffy ‘Mystery of Irma Vep’
Never mind its little quotes from plays by Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and Henrik Ibsen, “The Mystery of Irma Vep” is all fo
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11 years ago
Review: The many games of ‘Circle Mirror Transformation’
In Annie Baker’s play “Circle Mirror Transformation,” the games we play become one with the lives we lead. The play, ge
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11 years ago
Review: ‘The Suit,’ morality in a time of oppression
Bittersweet and solidly theatrical, British director Peter Brook’s “The Suit” is the first major stagework at the newly
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11 years ago
Review: The overwrought ‘Lady from the Sea’
My hat’s off to EgoPo for staging the rarely-produced 1888 work that out-Ibsens Ibsen.
Oh, the angst! (Of it all!) In a
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11 years ago
Review: On stage and off, the real lives of ‘The Exonerated’
“The Exonerated,” a finely crafted piece of docu-drama theater in a terrific production at Delaware Theatre Company, is fresh
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11 years ago
Review: ‘Beautiful Boy,’ but less handsome story
Eric Conger’s intermissionless “Beautiful Boy,” in its world-premiere production by Walnut Street Theatre, is two plays, really.&nb
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11 years ago
Review: ‘True West’ with the brothers grim
Yo! Someone gimme a break! I mean a real break – an intermission. I’m sitting here looking at the script of Sam Shepard’s &
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11 years ago
Review: When ‘Julius Caesar’ feasted on sukiyaki
Did you hear the one about the conquering Roman soldiers who were heading home but ended up in Tokyo? They lost their focus, but got a de
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11 years ago
Review: The beauty and blather of ‘Ondine’
Love is a drug but beware the awful side effects. Wait…no!…that can’t be right. Let’s try again: Love and deceit
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11 years ago
Title: Trying to blend the tales in ‘Grimms’ Juniper Tree’
What happens when, say, Rumpelstiltskin and the candy-coated Hansel and Gretl become linked in the same story? You get a Grimms fairy-tal
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11 years ago
Review: ‘Tribes’ and the all-consuming power of words
In “Tribes,” a play that bursts with life and energy in a new Philadelphia Theatre Company production, it’s all about w
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11 years ago
Review: In ‘Gidion’s Knot,’ the acting’s the thing
If you’re a student of acting – literally or not – “Gidion’s Knot” at InterAct Theatre Company is an excellen
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11 years ago
Review: The real, the virtual, the quest for connection in ‘Water by the Spoonful’
Two elements of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ remarkably crafted play “Water by the Spoonful” are striking and memorable. One
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11 years ago
Review: Playful philosophy inside a ‘Snowglobe’
Mother Nature is clearly on the side of the team that put together “Snowglobe,” which opened at the Shubin Theatre in the mid
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11 years ago
Review: Visiting ‘Other Desert Cities’ on the family plan
Christmas has come and gone, but it’s not too soon to relive it with some good old family time. In this case, not your own family.
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11 years ago
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