Shapiro on Theater

The great triumph of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” is that it is convincing, moving, often funny and unrelentingly ...

When Mike Boryla talks about football, anything to do with the game, you’re compelled to listen. Boryla was an Eagles quarterback f ...

The lighter-hearted “Driving Miss Daisy” that opened Thursday night in Walnut Street Theatre’s third-floor Independence ...

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 ...

Quintessence Theatre Group, dedicated to the classics, stages most of its work in a bare-bones setting. Whenever I see the repertory trou ...

Those oldies but goodies remind me of … vaudeville. Hokey, corny, well-worn – you can throw all these names at it, and I wouldn ...

I sat mesmerized the other night by the seamless affirmation of the American dream called “Jersey Boys” – and this was my t ...

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a song about the gifts a true love gives. “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” at A ...

You could sit in the audience at Bucks County Playhouse’s “Meet Me in St. Louis” and never look up from the floor, and ...

If Lantern Theater company’s rendition is any indication, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the … slowest & ...

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& ...

“Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” is the latest to arrive here in Dan Goggin’s series of shows in the “N ...

Three Fringe Festivals back, Pig Iron Theatre Company — among the nation’s most cutting-edge — dipped into the classics ...

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 ...

When Sophie Tucker was 25 and just becoming a star, she reportedly brought down the house during a show called ...