Howard Shapiro

The epic story of “Pericles,” in Shakespeare’s telling, has it all – birth, death, wandering, royalty, dejection, ela ...

In the seedy play “Mercury Fur,” which premiered in London a decade back, anarchy reigns. London is a wreck. Gangs have kille ...

A really good production can raise the level of a play, but I hold little hope for “The Foreigner.” Its production at the Pen ...

The play “Lulu’s Golden Shoes” displays urban poverty through the lens of fantasy, and I kept getting the feeling ...

William Shakespeare made a pre-emptive strike centuries before anyone ever used the phrase. In “Henry V,” he has to depict a ...

William Shakespeare made a pre-emptive strike centuries before anyone ever used the phrase. In “Henry V,” he has to depict a ...

What’s up with Stella and Lou? Stella walks into Lou’s Philly bar after finishing her hospital shift as a nursing supervisor, ...

The rain on Wednesday was nothing like a tempest, but enough to wet a swath of land at Morris Arboretum in Chestnut Hill and move “ ...

The angst of American middle-age – when many of us question the paths we’ve taken and the ones we’re moving toward – has ...

The angst of American middle-age – when many of us question the paths we’ve taken and the ones we’re moving toward – has ...

The first thing you see is the tall man in silhouette. He stands against the altar of the church in Cape May where the East Lynne&nb ...

They called it “Broadway at the Beach,” and for most of the last 65 years that’s what it was at Surflight Theatre, a sw ...