Shapiro on Theater

Here’s what you get when you mix over-hyped masculinity, comic book heroes and the Philadelphia Parking Authority: the sock-’ ...

FRANZ KAFKA’S “THE CASTLE.” Franz Kafka’s unfinished novel, which was completed by his editor an ...

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 ...

Pig Iron Theatre Company’s inventive “Pay Up,” a flip take on money and value that was the runaway hit of the Philly Fr ...

This is the year of the expanded Fringe. The Philly Fringe festival – now officially called FringeArts – has not just a new name, but ...

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 ...

The no-nonsense staging and smooth interpretation that Commonwealth Classic Theater Company is giving “Macbeth” in West Phila ...

A decade or so back, a stage production that bent the genders of that most delicious boy-chases-girl comedy, “The Importance of Bei ...

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 ...

Philadelphia drag performer Martha Graham Cracker celebrated eight years of kooky, and maybe kinky, performances Thursday night. Her ...

And now, a special summer nod to Fontaine Syer, the director who has done something wonderful at the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival fo ...

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 ...

There’s plenty of magic afoot on the far-out island where the sorcerer Prospero stirs up “The Tempest” that is the ...

By now Michael Frayn’s farce about a dumb troupe of actors called “Noises Off,” which opened in Britain in 1982 and hit ...

For a play as juicy as Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest” – among the greatest comedies in our language ...