Howard Shapiro

The new High Pressure Fire Service Festival, geared to locally based performers, runs through most of June, with a new show opening each month.

The production affirms Arden Theatre Company as the region's major producer of August Wilson's work.

Gimmickry overtakes a play bombarded by on-stage directions and a prescribed lack of rehearsal.

Strong women take the microphone.

A photographer, a housewife and a show that doesn't know when to stop.

A desperate single mother bares her soul, but not effectively until the play's very end.

Her mind takes off into daydreams, but the play is earth-bound by echoing sound where it's performed.

Hip-hop performers argue over the purpose of a public forum.

At a huge event with four tenors at a stadium in Paris, what could go wrong? Everything.

A homicide case, dissected in a jury deliberation room.

It's not your high-school teacher's Shakespeare.

A student confronts her prof with allegations of sexual abuse. Was he simply patronizing, or was he pushing limits?