Shapiro on Theater
Review: It’s ‘4000 Miles,’ but the characters couldn’t be closer
Every now and then, a grandma will tell you how great it is to have grandkids – they come, they share the love, and after a while their
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Review: ‘Blink’ and you might miss the theatrical part
If a play called “Blink” were a short story, I might even read it twice — it
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Review: Softly, the FringeArts building opens, with a fitting show
The new FringeArts building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard, the first permanent home of the organization that runs the annual Phil
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Review: ‘Emma’ — When does a story become theater?
Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,”
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Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ — tough love, anyone?
It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting
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Review: Barbara Cook and the rebirth of a cabaret
When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t
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Review: ‘Parade’ passes by, then and now and all at once
The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers
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Review: ‘Evil Dead — the Musical.’ Deadly? Or just evil?
Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i
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Review: ‘Bunny Bunny’ and what friendship means
Nearly a generation ago, Alan Zweibel wrote a sweet and funny play called “Bunny Bunny” about his deep 15-year friendship wit
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Philly Fringe review: ‘Dutch Masters’
Two guys strike up an unlikely conversation on a New York subway car. One is a young black man; the other, young and white. The black man
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘LEO’ and ‘The Sea Plays’
LEO. Fred Astaire danced on the floor, the walls and the ceiling of a room in the 1951 movie, “Royal Wedding.̶
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘The Ballad of Joe Hill,’ ‘Where (we) Live,’ and ‘The Object Lesson’
The Ballad of Joe Hill. You may have dreamt you saw Joe Hill last night, just like the ballad says – but you didn̵
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Review: Nailing it ‘In the Heights’
The high-voltage production of the musical “In the Heights,” opening Walnut Street Theatre’s 205th season, is a supersonic trick: I
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Philly Fringe reviews: ‘Life and Times’ and ‘Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak’
Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story
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Philly Fringe review: ‘The Quiet Volume’
I came into the Free Library’s Central Branch only 45 minutes after putting down my Nook, on which I’d been reading a detecti
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