Howard Shapiro

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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