Howard Shapiro

It’s not just the three sisters who are weird in the current version of “Macbeth” at Arden Theatre Company. Alexander B ...

Kirsten Greenidge’s “Milk Like Sugar,” in a bold staging from Simpatico Theatre Project on four small spaces on the top ...

Michael Hollinger, in his eighth play for Arden Theatre Company, has written ostensibly about a man who needs a kidney transplant and ask ...

In Tennessee Williams’ vision, his play “Stairs to the Roof” is about an idealist who fights the industrialized world. ...

In a small, bare playing space with the audience on three sides, Curio Theatre Company delivers a sizzling “Othello.” Th ...

Playwrights fool with history all the time. — Shakespeare made a career of it. Normally, they get the basics — the found ...

All of a sudden Gordon Hirabayashi wasn’t allowed to study with his classmates at the University of Washington library at night. He ...

It took designer Alison Roberts about a month to construct the enormous fat-suit costume for Charlie, the grotesque, wheezing 600-po ...

Sometimes, less isn’t just more – it’s way, way more. From the get-go, Theatre Horizon co-founder Matthew Decker wanted to ...

Accompanying Howard Shapiro’s review, we also present the reviews of three audience members who attended Wednesday’s ope ...

Come hang out with me at a WHYY special event – “Everyone’s a Critic.” We’ll go to the opening night of Terrenc ...

George Bernard Shaw’s “Misalliance” is a rarely produced big blob of a play with a taxing first act and a second act th ...