Howard Shapiro

In Annie Baker’s play “Circle Mirror Transformation,” the games we play become one with the lives we lead. The play, ge ...

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Review: ‘The Suit,’ morality in a time of oppression

Bittersweet and solidly theatrical, British director Peter Brook’s “The Suit” is the first major stagework at the newly ...

11 years ago

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Review: The overwrought ‘Lady from the Sea’

My hat’s off to EgoPo for staging the rarely-produced 1888 work that out-Ibsens Ibsen. Oh, the angst! (Of it all!) In a ...

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Review: On stage and off, the real lives of ‘The Exonerated’

“The Exonerated,” a finely crafted piece of docu-drama theater in a terrific production at Delaware Theatre Company, is fresh ...

11 years ago

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Review: ‘Beautiful Boy,’ but less handsome story

Eric Conger’s intermissionless “Beautiful Boy,” in its world-premiere production by Walnut Street Theatre, is two plays, really.&nb ...

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Review: ‘True West’ with the brothers grim

Yo! Someone gimme a break! I mean a real break – an intermission. I’m sitting here looking at the script of Sam Shepard’s & ...

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Review: When ‘Julius Caesar’ feasted on sukiyaki

Did you hear the one about the conquering Roman soldiers who were heading home but ended up in Tokyo? They lost their focus, but got a de ...

11 years ago

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Choreographer Brian Sanders still pushing the limits after joint replacement surgery

Choreographer Brian Sanders opens up about the hip replacement surgery that sparked a minor career change. Choreographer Brian San ...

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Review: The beauty and blather of ‘Ondine’

Love is a drug but beware the awful side effects. Wait…no!…that can’t be right. Let’s try again: Love and deceit ...

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Title: Trying to blend the tales in ‘Grimms’ Juniper Tree’

What happens when, say, Rumpelstiltskin and the candy-coated Hansel and Gretl become linked in the same story? You get a Grimms fairy-tal ...

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Review: ‘Tribes’ and the all-consuming power of words

In “Tribes,” a play that bursts with life and energy in a new Philadelphia Theatre Company production, it’s all about w ...

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Review: In ‘Gidion’s Knot,’ the acting’s the thing

If you’re a student of acting – literally or not – “Gidion’s Knot” at InterAct Theatre Company is an excellen ...

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