Shapiro on Theater

A mother has a most unusual way of grieving for her dead son.

The actress, from Philadelphia's Mt. Airy, graduated from DeSales University and became a Broadway understudy only a month after arriving in New York.

Competition, love, and the bizarre back-and-forth between Elizabeth Barrett Browning and husband Robert. How does she love him? Don't even think about counting the ways.

Backed by two pianos, Quintessence Theatre Group produces an enchanting musical whose roots stretch back to ancient Greece and Rome.

Three sisters have a very bad day, especially in this telling.

Bruce Graham's play, in its world premiere, is a riveting piece about an art dealer charged with treason.

The audience helps actor Scott Greer deliver this tale of a man with a mom who attempts suicide and his list that supplies reasons for living.

A world premiere musical offers the fun side of Pilgrims and Native Americans that we never saw. (Neither did they!)

A Marine sets out on a mission to recover antiquities in Iraq. A ghostwriter has her own ideas about the details.

Aliens have invaded her, one sister tells another in a beguiling world-premiere play.

A new musical by Philadelphia native Colman Domingo is set in the ‘50s and examines issues of race through the iconic character of Nat King Cole.

Family history repeats itself in a play by one of Ireland's current leading playwrights.

An old play becomes an altogether new experience in this adaptation of Federico García Lorca's classic.

The Barrymore Award ceremony, Monday night at the Merriam Theater, is the way metropolitan Philadelphia’s professional theater community celebrates its accomplishments.

A new musical comedy about an engaged young couple — torn by a commitment to no premarital sex and an attraction to phone fantasy — turns away from issues it addresses.