Howard Shapiro

Sometimes, there’s no telling what will make it on Broadway or why, and “Catch Me If You Can” is a prime example. It ...

Sometimes, there’s no telling what will make it on Broadway or why, and “Catch Me If You Can” is a prime example. It ...

About 85 years ago, when Noël Coward was writing his now-classic “Private Lives,” name-calling was probably pretty funny. A ...

A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th ...

A South African woman called Pretty Mbane begins speaking, but she is dead. She tells us so. How and why she died – that’s for th ...

The minute we lay eyes on Alice, which is the minute Patrick Marber’s play “Closer” begins, one thought comes to m ...

The second half of the theater season is beginning to bud, and with about 50 professional theater companies in metropolitan Philadelphia, ...

“Times have changed,” Cole Porter wrote as the first three words to “Anything Goes,” and the current Mauckingbird ...

A writer named Dan O’Brien tuned into “Fresh Air” on August 27, 2007, and this is what Terry Gross was saying: & ...

Are the best times in the theater when things go terribly wrong? Not in my experience, but the best times in David Mamet’s 1977 pla ...

Nobody can tell a good story about Berry Gordy Jr. better than Berry Gordy Jr. And the bad ones? Well, some of them are even in “Mo ...

When Sue Weldon, a former gymnastics coach, was diagnosed with breast cancer about 11 years ago, no one could refer her to an array of sp ...