
Shapiro on Theater
Review: Smothering ‘The Pillowman’
The great triumph of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” is that it is convincing, moving, often funny and unrelentingly ...
9 years ago
Review: A rush from ‘The Disappearing Quarterback’
When Mike Boryla talks about football, anything to do with the game, you’re compelled to listen. Boryla was an Eagles quarterback f ...
9 years ago
Review: The fun-ride part of ‘Driving Miss Daisy’
The lighter-hearted “Driving Miss Daisy” that opened Thursday night in Walnut Street Theatre’s third-floor Independence ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Sideways Stories’ and the next generation of theater-goers
Sometimes the coolest things happen when you’re not looking. At 10 a.m., for instance, in the theater, when most stages are dark an ...
9 years ago
Review: A breezy ‘Wind in the Willows’
Quintessence Theatre Group, dedicated to the classics, stages most of its work in a bare-bones setting. Whenever I see the repertory trou ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘The Big Time’ shticks to you
Those oldies but goodies remind me of … vaudeville. Hokey, corny, well-worn – you can throw all these names at it, and I wouldn ...
9 years ago
Review: The effervescent ‘Jersey Boys’
I sat mesmerized the other night by the seamless affirmation of the American dream called “Jersey Boys” – and this was my t ...
9 years ago
Review: Finding true love in ‘The Twelve Dates of Christmas’
“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a song about the gifts a true love gives. “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” at A ...
9 years ago
Review: The sounds (as in radio) of ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’
You could sit in the audience at Bucks County Playhouse’s “Meet Me in St. Louis” and never look up from the floor, and ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales,’ the longest day
If Lantern Theater company’s rendition is any indication, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the … slowest & ...
9 years ago
Review: Rifts, cracks and all, ‘The Story of My Life’
Plenty of shows involve friends, but only a few focus on the idea of friendship, and that’s why I wish “The Story of My Life& ...
9 years ago
Review: The all-too cheery ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class’
“Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” is the latest to arrive here in Dan Goggin’s series of shows in the “N ...
9 years ago
Review: A Pig Iron-styled ‘Twelfth Night’
Three Fringe Festivals back, Pig Iron Theatre Company — among the nation’s most cutting-edge — dipped into the classics ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Nerds,’ the newly downloaded Nerds.2 version
The musical “Nerds” is like a new digital game that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Forget about everything else, it will wa ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Sophie Tucker’ at the Walnut, after all these years
When Sophie Tucker was 25 and just becoming a star, she reportedly brought down the house during a show called ...
9 years ago
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