Howard Shapiro
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Fringe reviews: ‘Alias Ellis Mackenzie’ and ‘It’s So Learning’
Alias Ellis Mackenzie The theater artist Thaddeus Phillips, whose group Lucidity Suitcase International has given the Fringe man ...
9 years ago
Underground Railroad Game Raw, revealing, funny and poignant – “Underground Railroad Game” is hands-down the best ...
9 years ago
Fringe review: ‘A Doll’s House’
In his loopy take on Henrik Ibsen’s masterpiece “A Doll’s House,” Norwegian playwright/director/choreographer Jo ...
9 years ago
Fringe reviews: ‘The Captive’ and ‘After the Rehearsal/Persona’
The Captive I’m shocked, shocked, I tell you – or I may have been in 1926, when Edouard Bordet’s “La Prision ...
9 years ago
It’s Fringe Festival time — and here’s the theater I want to see (among the 140-odd productions)
A fellow named Brian Feldman will come to your kitchen, wash your dishes — and then recite any monologue of your choosing in a one- ...
9 years ago
ListenThis year’s Barrymore Award nominees cover a wide spectrum of Philadelphia-area theater
This is the year that the region’s smaller professional theaters, plus those in the suburbs, sit at the front of the table: Nominee ...
9 years ago
Review: Forever ‘Defending the Caveman’
It’s been about 30 years since I checked in with a show about the gender wars called “Defending the Caveman,” which tur ...
9 years ago
Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’
Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He bec ...
9 years ago
Review: Two underlings dealing with the ‘Rage of Achilles’
Oh, the mortals are restless! Achilles the Greek is furious because his boss, Agamemnon, has made grave mistakes in war and women. He bec ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘The Secretaries’ out for the kill
The bizarre, bloody and basely funny satire called “The Secretaries” has a contemporary rough edge, even though it was first ...
9 years ago
Review: Less of ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’
Whatever happened to poor Lyn, who riffs in her backyard about life in California? Or the punk kid who works at the pancake house or her ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Heathers: The Musical’ — just for fun and suddenly serious
“Heathers: The Musical” is equal parts trashy and juvenile, at least in the first act as it exploits every stereotype about t ...
9 years ago