Howard Shapiro

“The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence,” being given an able production by Azuka Theatre, is supposed to be a play ab ...

You’ve heard of the jilted bride. Now consider the instantly abandoned husband. In Federico García Lorca’s “Blood ...

“I’m practically perfect in every way,” Mary Poppins sings to her two young charges, but she could be describing the Wa ...

What has Halloween done to the play “Quills,” the fictionalized account about the chief doctor of an asylum who orders an abb ...

The difference between right and wrong doesn’t figure into the ways the characters think in “Red Speedo.” But what& ...

The stunning production of “The Glass Menagerie” at Act II Playhouse in Ambler is all the more stunning because it never trie ...

Arden Theatre glides steadily through the broad sweep of Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations” – and when it comes to ...

The comedian and theater artist Adrienne Truscott immediately begins her one-woman “Asking For It” with a piece of shtik that ...

Is there such a thing as being close to the truth, or is that the definition of a lie? Well, it is not a matter of truth or fiction, but ...

Too bad that the national tour of Disney’s “Newsies” is running at the Academy of Music only through the weekend, becau ...

The news that the Prince Music Theater, on Chestnut Street in the shadow of City Hall, will be shutting its doors and that its producing ...

(NOTE: A full listing of Barrymore Award winners follows this article.) After a one-year hiatus while ...