Howard Shapiro
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Review: Swashing, buckling once again with ‘Zorro!’
Long before Los Angelinos began fighting monumental traffic and battling smog, Zorro was in town slicing up the colonial Mexican authorit ...
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Review: ‘We Are Bandits’ in a single community
Theater happens wherever it’s made, and in two places at once: the theater itself and whatever place is created on the stage. In th ...
10 years ago
Review: A ‘Herringbone’ that’s checkered
From: The Department of Basic Accuracy and Clarity Re: Flashpoint Theatre’s “Herringbone” We have complet ...
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Review: ‘Bach at Leipzig,’ accompanied by lesser colleagues
The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the g ...
10 years ago
3 Jersey Shore theaters to check out in their summer season
Ah, the Shore: Surf and cotton candy, sand and fine dining, Skee-Ball and theater. … Theater? Yes — professional thea ...
10 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Twelfth Night’ in a comedy of real-life errors
There are enough challenges in a Shakespeare play for any troupe of actors, and often for audiences. But on Thursday, the opening-night c ...
10 years ago
Review: A seashore ‘Moon Over Buffalo’
Even as farces go, “Moon Over Buffalo” is dumber than dumb. It’s also good fun at Cape May Stage, where producing artis ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘Deathtrap,’ timed for thrills
You can hear a lot of gasping at Bucks County Playhouse these nights, and not primarily because “Deathtrap” is at times an an ...
10 years ago
Review: ‘The Two Gentlemen of Verona’ and their labours of love
Can there be anything more light-headed in all of Shakespeare’s canon as “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” a comedy about ...
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Review: The turmoil of ‘The Toughest Boy in Philadelphia’
The suffragettes of the early 20th century were looking for political emancipation, they weren’t looking for Betty Friedan and wome ...
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Review: ‘Miz Martha’ Washington’s dreamy dilemma
On Planet Internet, where anything at all can become fact even if it isn’t, you might think that the nation’s first First Lad ...
10 years ago
‘Unconstitutional’ Colin Quinn brings a lot of Philadelphia to one-man show
After comedian and social commentator Colin Quinn decided he could make an entire show out of skewering the U.S. Constitution and our rel ...
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