Howard Shapiro

Write about what you know, they say. And that’s just what Blanka Zizka, the bold and inventive artistic director of Wilma Theater, ...

The Walnut Street Theatre seems a natural place to see Oscar Wilde’s “The Importance of Being Earnest,” which premiered ...

Tom Lehrer, a master of irreverence, wrote cheerful songs that slammed core Establishment values in the ’50s and also land punches ...

Not far from Theatre Exile’s Studio X, where a punch-in-the-gut drama called “Lost Girls” is playing, there’s a m ...

Thornton Wilder’s play “The Matchmaker” has a sweet innocence from another time, on clear display in a production at Pe ...

If a point lurks somewhere in Irish writer Lee Coffey’s play called “Leper + Chip,” I can’t find it. Not that eve ...

There’s a ton of feeling in the soup-kitchen play “Grand Concourse,” and every ounce of it rings true. That’s par ...

In “The Enchanted,” an adaptation of a strange play written by Jean Giraudoux in 1933, life battles with death. And the real ...

When the Delany sisters speak, you listen. You have to. Between them, they have more than two centuries of recollections and wisdom. So i ...

When the Delany sisters speak, you listen. You have to. Between them, they have more than two centuries of recollections and wisdom. So i ...

It taxes credibility and has a cheap ending to boot, but we’re going to have to overlook the weak points in Deborah Zoe Laufer̵ ...

You know how they say the future is in the stars? In Nick Payne’s surreal and beautifully constructed “Constellations,” ...