Howard Shapiro

Lucky Terry Brennan – he gets to play not just a fourth grader, but one who celebrates life with abandon. Or, as his teacher Miss Jacks ...

Philadelphians figured in the two major Tony Awards for excellence on Broadway, presented at Radio City Music Hall in a national broadcas ...

Caustic and funny in equal parts, Taylor Mac’s “Hir” doesn’t bend gender as much as stab it to death with blunt b ...

One glib maxim defines the entirety of Anton Chekhov’s “Uncle Vanya”: Life sucks, then you die. Chekhov loads his maste ...

The terrific new “How to Use a Knife” comes at you like a play on speed, or maybe a play with no speed limit. What’s mo ...

The colorful historical figure Hugh O’Neill, the chief of an Irish clan as well as the British Earl of Tyrone, would swing both way ...

Let’s get right to the point: the ending. It’s the final number of “Gypsy,” when Rose — the ultimate stage moth ...

Long before “alternative facts” became a concept the White House employs, James Ijames began writing his play “White, ...

The prophet Isaiah sees a day when the wolf lives with the lamb and the leopard lies down with the little goat. In Mary Tuomanen’s ...

I’m convinced that a special place awaits me in heaven because, feeling duty-bound, I went to see the play “Hand to God” ...

It’s a rare play that suddenly gathers steam the way Lauren Gunderson’s “I and You” does. At People’s Light ...

Summer is Shakespeare’s big season, in Philadelphia and around the nation. A few miles north of Quakertown, the Pennsylvania Shakes ...