Shapiro on Theater

Who says you have to be old-fashioned to be classic? Heck, who says you need to be classic to be … classic? Moliere wrote ...

“North of the Boulevard,” the new drama by prolific Philadelphia-based playwright Bruce Graham, is gritty – but is it true ...

The new and innovative play “It’s My Party: The Women and Comedy Project” reaches into three different theatrical world ...

Every year for the past few years, Philadelphia has made at least one major appearance on Broadway. This season, it’s in a compelli ...

“Orphans,” a gripping play that opened Thursday night on Broadway, is about brothers — and it’s full of the City ...

If mama ain’t happy in Walter Dallas’ tight, convincing production of “A Raisin in the Sun,” then nobody is. ...

Time is the theme of this year’s Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts. The festival, with more than 50 shows and events ...

If you’re looking for a play about a man of high standing who falls from grace and spends his latter days crazed and in the forest, ...

William Shakespeare is his own best apologist. His “Henry V,” essentially a battle play with time off for knaves and love, ca ...

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that over the last nights, Bristol Riverside Theatre’s large-scale production (two doze ...

“Seminar” is a bulls-eye comedy about the power of words and the fragility of the writers who use them — and as an adde ...

The Boston neighborhood called Southie is a hardscrabble part of town, and it merits a play with the same sensibility — the smart, funn ...

I would tell you that the best reason to go see the late Horton Foote’s “The Trip to Bountiful” is the extraordinary pe ...

Is life really a journey and not a destination? “Under the Whaleback” — a caustic play being given a terrific production by ...