Howard Shapiro

Beware of hucksters. In the musical “See What I Wanna See,” in a splendid production in Center City from 11th Hour Theatre Co ...

Pardon me if tour de force seems too lame a phrase for Jennifer Childsand the new show she’s written, “I Will Not Go ...

I didn’t trust Ethan from the minute I saw him. In Kyle Coffman’s portrayal at Philadelphia Theatre Company’s “Se ...

You think you know somebody, and then what happens? You find out he got his name from the very pirate who’s out to kill him. And th ...

Take something – anything — to outrageous extremes, and you might discover some new truth about it. That’s one of the point ...

Let’s get kinky. I mean for real. The suspension ropes are fine, and the whips are welcome anytime. The needles? Eh… Take ...

A fluid, catchy adaptation of Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility” calls for a fluid and catchy production – so it m ...

One afternoon several weeks ago Blanka Zizka was — where else? — in a rehearsal. The artistic director and co-founder (along wit ...

For InterAct Theatre Company – founded 28 years ago to stage works that speak to current issues – Wednesday night marked a new era. N ...

It’s a rare depiction, to my mind, that treats the playwright Oscar Wilde as an actual human being and not some cartoonish, foppish ...

At the first preview performance of his new play “Funnyman,” Bruce Graham sat at the top row of the theater at the Arden R ...

It’s been a heady week for the Wilma Theater. First, its co-founder and artistic director Blanka Zizka announced a $10 million camp ...