Shapiro on Theater

The union meeting at the Wilma Theater in Center City wasn’t your typical one – but then, Actors’ Equity isn’t your t ...

Attention all Philadelphians down the Shore and all Shore people down there, too: If you’ve never enjoyed the silly pleasures of ...

Bucks County Playhouse, known about 60 years ago as a theatrical playground where high-level talent could flex muscles by trying out new ...

There’s no skimping in the big-theater production of “Oklahoma!” that opens this season’s Pennsylvania Shakespear ...

Philadelphia’s most produced playwright this season is eloquent and groundbreaking and his themes are universal. He’s ...

In Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons,” a taut, terrific new play getting the world-premiere it deserves at Bucks Cou ...

Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a memory play, and the new “Glass: Shattered” — a shaky and self-consci ...

Philadelphia audiences will have a chance to see Sunday’s night’s Tony winner for best new play – “Vanya and Sonia an ...

Sometimes, it’s just no good to be good. If there’s any lesson for the clueless jerk who thinks he’s a hero in the enjo ...

The new play “Barcelona,” at People’s Light & Theatre Company in Malvern, is like Las Ramblas, that city’s fa ...

Here’s just some of what you’ll see under the Grand Chapiteau — the huge tent — set up at Camden’s waterf ...

Is it hot in here, or is it just me? Hoo-boy! It’s not just me. It’s the entire Suzanne Roberts Theatre, where the Phi ...

Hormones are erupting all over the place at Theatre Horizon’s “Spring Awakening” in Norristown – I nearly slipped and ...

Someone asked me if I’ve seen the current local production of “Lend Me a Tenor,” and I burst out laughing. That pretty ...

The women of ancient Athens are feeling repressed. They have equal rights, they even have the vote, but now the all-male Senate is trying ...