Howard Shapiro

Pig Iron Theatre Company is celebrating 20 years of bold and unconventional work by restaging an early piece that created a buzz here, th ...

Plenty of mystery surrounds the blood-thirsty hound plaguing the Baskerville family, but one thing we know for sure: He’s a do ...

The Christmas show “Black Nativity” was written by the late poet Langston Hughes, who wanted his African American culture to ...

Ask me what the play “Equivocation” is about and I could give you lots of answers, including God, souls, religion, politics, ...

Chad Beckim’s flinty new play “Lights Rise on Grace” is as much about a clash of cultures as it is about trying, and fa ...

The Barrymore Awards, celebrating the region’s professional theater, have been top-heavy with accolades to established, big-budget, ...

It’s a safe bet that the ancient Greek classics, in which the gods and fate control the plot, never looked or felt quite the way th ...

It’s no wonder that the hot-button play “Disgraced” will be the most produced new play in America this theater season. ...

The gods must be crazy. Also jealous, generous, arbitrary and sometimes even caring. They’re that and more in “Metamorphoses, ...

They can be brilliant and they can be cynical, petty, cutthroat hypocrites. I’m not referring to the usual suspects – I’m t ...

They don’t make musicals like they used to – but then, Cole Porter is no longer around. In fact, he wasn’t around in 1998 e ...

Alias Ellis Mackenzie The theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, whose group Lucidity Suitcase International has given the Fringe man ...