Howard Shapiro

On the same day, Friday, that news outlets were showing images of some of the half-million Iraqis fleeing Mosul after Islamic extremists ...

The young and versatile actor Eric Scotolati, who in four seasons has appeared with at least nine theater companies here, is being put to ...

The funny new play called “Ritu Comes Home,” is a paradox: It’s as urbane as it is juvenile. That’s because its m ...

If the devil really is in the details, then C.S. Lewis got it right. His 1942 book, “The Screwtape Letters,” is a point-by-po ...

A new theater company called Humble Treasure Productions, supported by donors to the Web’s Kickstarter and founded by a young theat ...

The heavy-hitting playwright Tom Stoppard has a special way of thinking, and that’s what makes him a singular voice. He ties ...

Let’s take a moment to consider the mismanagement that defines American business leadership in the new century. On second thought, ...

What’s a poor believer to do? The abbey is falling apart. No one in the village seems able to contribute even a penny for prayer. ...

In Neil Simon’s semi-autobiographical play “Chapter Two,” we’re asked to believe that two people in a whirlwind l ...

Allow me, please, to be the heretic in the sanctuary. The many fans of 11th Hour Theatre Company will see its “Altar Boyz” pr ...

“So all we could do was to Sit! Sit! Sit! Sit! And we did not like it. Not one little bit.” Aw, too bad for a gloomy brother ...

One of the endearing qualities of the late Woody Guthrie, a man whose plain-talk songs are now well-woven into the fabric of our folk cul ...