
Shapiro on Theater
In Philadelphia, Actors’ Equity celebrates a new century
The union meeting at the Wilma Theater in Center City wasn’t your typical one – but then, Actors’ Equity isn’t your t ...
10 years ago
Review: Lending a tenor, down the shore
Attention all Philadelphians down the Shore and all Shore people down there, too: If you’ve never enjoyed the silly pleasures of ...
10 years ago
Bucks County Playhouse: Rebuilding a reputation
Bucks County Playhouse, known about 60 years ago as a theatrical playground where high-level talent could flex muscles by trying out new ...
10 years ago
Review: You’re doin’ fine, ‘Oklahoma!’
There’s no skimping in the big-theater production of “Oklahoma!” that opens this season’s Pennsylvania Shakespear ...
10 years ago
Podcast: Brush up your Shakespeare
Philadelphia’s most produced playwright this season is eloquent and groundbreaking and his themes are universal. He’s ...
10 years ago
Review: The ‘Mothers and Sons’ reunion, in a Terrence McNally premiere
In Terrence McNally’s “Mothers and Sons,” a taut, terrific new play getting the world-premiere it deserves at Bucks Cou ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Glass: Shattered’ is jagged, indeed
Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” is a memory play, and the new “Glass: Shattered” — a shaky and self-consci ...
10 years ago
A Tony-winning show, coming to a theater near you
Philadelphia audiences will have a chance to see Sunday’s night’s Tony winner for best new play – “Vanya and Sonia an ...
10 years ago
Review: Under the skin of ‘Some Other Kind of Person’
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 ...
10 years ago
Review: A tough all-nighter in ‘Barcelona’
The new play “Barcelona,” at People’s Light & Theatre Company in Malvern, is like Las Ramblas, that city’s fa ...
10 years ago
Review: With ‘Totem,’ Cirque du Soleil soars
Here’s just some of what you’ll see under the Grand Chapiteau — the huge tent — set up at Camden’s waterf ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Venus in Fur’ nearly gets kinky
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 ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Spring Awakening’ awake yet groggy
Hormones are erupting all over the place at Theatre Horizon’s “Spring Awakening” in Norristown – I nearly slipped and ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Lend Me a Tenor’ but give me a romp
Someone asked me if I’ve seen the current local production of “Lend Me a Tenor,” and I burst out laughing. That pretty ...
10 years ago
Review: “Lysistrata,” still protesting
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 ...
10 years ago
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