Howard Shapiro

Philly Theatre Week launches as theater companies ready new productions for the second half of the season.

Four women take the French Revolution into their own hands.

Two veteran locally-based actors excel in Samuel Beckett's classic.

A bold Civil War play from a brave theater company.

Silly me, I thought I was going to the theater to see a play. I did go to the theater — Theatre Exile. But there was no play. There was, instead, something called “Really."

A war photographer comes home. But where is home?

The Blake family meets for Thanksgiving dinner. And you know what that can be like.

Two atomic scientists — one from Germany and the other from occupied Denmark — meet quietly during World War II. What about?

Ibsen's characters, warring again in another version of the play.

The Wilma Theater production takes a musical to a new level.

Comedy bits from the past, offered by two artistic directors who specialize in having fun.

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