Shapiro on Theater
Philly Fringe review: ‘Antihero’
Here’s what you get when you mix over-hyped masculinity, comic book heroes and the Philadelphia Parking Authority: the sock-’
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10 years ago
Philly Fringe reviews: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Castle’ and ‘Saint Joan, Betrayed’
FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE CASTLE.” Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, which was completed by his editor an
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10 years ago
Philly Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’
Lots of girls hold a doll in each hand and make up stories, but only Mackenzie Maula holds her dolls while reciting a version of Henrik I
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10 years ago
Philly Fringe review: ‘Pay Up’
Pig Iron Theatre Company’s inventive “Pay Up,” a flip take on money and value that was the runaway hit of the Philly Fr
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10 years ago
Philly’s Fringe festival begins to expand, plus some picks
This is the year of the expanded Fringe. The Philly Fringe festival – now officially called FringeArts – has not just a new name, but
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Review: The ‘Allergist’s Wife’ breathes freely
Boyd Gaines is an actor in films, but with four Tonys—his most recent for his role in the revival of “Gypsy”—his career h
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10 years ago
Review: ‘Macbeth’ as a stage company’s added attraction
The no-nonsense staging and smooth interpretation that Commonwealth Classic Theater Company is giving “Macbeth” in West Phila
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Review: A gender-swapped ‘Earnest,’ in all but name
A decade or so back, a stage production that bent the genders of that most delicious boy-chases-girl comedy, “The Importance of Bei
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10 years ago
Review: Then and now, the lesbians of ‘Cold’
The Bird Hole, a fictional lesbian bar where the entire 90 minutes of the new play “Cold,” is set in a single scene, was once
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Review: Martha Graham Cracker, a Philadelphia institution 8 years running
Philadelphia drag performer Martha Graham Cracker celebrated eight years of kooky, and maybe kinky, performances Thursday night. Her
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10 years ago
Review: ‘Measure for Measure’ and a sense of proportion
And now, a special summer nod to Fontaine Syer, the director who has done something wonderful at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival fo
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10 years ago
Review: Sex and angst in the ‘Summer of ’42’
Chelsea Packard is a lovely woman with a big singing voice, and also the best reason to go see the musical version of “Summer of
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10 years ago
Review: In ‘The Tempest,’ every man for herself
There’s plenty of magic afoot on the far-out island where the sorcerer Prospero stirs up “The Tempest” that is the
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10 years ago
Review: ‘Noises Off’ and on, too
By now Michael Frayn’s farce about a dumb troupe of actors called “Noises Off,” which opened in Britain in 1982 and hit
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Review: ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ earnestly
For a play as juicy as Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” – among the greatest comedies in our language
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