Howard Shapiro

Two elements of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ remarkably crafted play “Water by the Spoonful” are striking and memorable. One ...

Mother Nature is clearly on the side of the team that put together “Snowglobe,” which opened at the Shubin Theatre in the mid ...

Christmas has come and gone, but it’s not too soon to relive it with some good old family time. In this case, not your own family. ...

The great triumph of Martin McDonagh’s “The Pillowman” is that it is convincing, moving, often funny and unrelentingly ...

When Mike Boryla talks about football, anything to do with the game, you’re compelled to listen. Boryla was an Eagles quarterback f ...

The lighter-hearted “Driving Miss Daisy” that opened Thursday night in Walnut Street Theatre’s third-floor Independence ...

Two black ex-cons, a white girlfriend of one of them and a quiet white guy trying to mind his own business share a train car from Camden ...

Sometimes the coolest things happen when you’re not looking. At 10 a.m., for instance, in the theater, when most stages are dark an ...

Quintessence Theatre Group, dedicated to the classics, stages most of its work in a bare-bones setting. Whenever I see the repertory trou ...

Those oldies but goodies remind me of … vaudeville. Hokey, corny, well-worn – you can throw all these names at it, and I wouldn ...

I sat mesmerized the other night by the seamless affirmation of the American dream called “Jersey Boys” – and this was my t ...

“The Twelve Days of Christmas” is a song about the gifts a true love gives. “The Twelve Dates of Christmas,” at A ...