Shapiro on Theater

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 ...

  If a play called “Blink” were a short story, I might even read it twice — it ...

The new FringeArts building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard, the first permanent home of the organization that runs the annual Phil ...

Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,” ...

It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting ...

When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t ...

The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers ...

Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i ...

Nearly a generation ago, Alan Zweibel wrote a sweet and funny play called “Bunny Bunny” about his deep 15-year friendship wit ...

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 ...

LEO. Fred Astaire danced on the floor, the walls and the ceiling of a room in the 1951 movie, “Royal Wedding.̶ ...

The Ballad of Joe Hill. You may have dreamt you saw Joe Hill last night, just like the ballad says – but you didn̵ ...

The high-voltage production of the musical “In the Heights,” opening Walnut Street Theatre’s 205th season, is a supersonic trick: I ...

Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story ...

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 ...