Howard Shapiro
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Review: The sounds (as in radio) of ‘Meet Me in St. Louis’
You could sit in the audience at Bucks County Playhouse’s “Meet Me in St. Louis” and never look up from the floor, and ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘A Child’s Christmas in Wales,’ the longest day
If Lantern Theater company’s rendition is any indication, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” is the … slowest & ...
11 years ago
Review: Rifts, cracks and all, ‘The Story of My Life’
Plenty of shows involve friends, but only a few focus on the idea of friendship, and that’s why I wish “The Story of My Life& ...
11 years ago
Review: The all-too cheery ‘Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class’
“Sister Robert Anne’s Cabaret Class” is the latest to arrive here in Dan Goggin’s series of shows in the “N ...
11 years ago
Review: A Pig Iron-styled ‘Twelfth Night’
Three Fringe Festivals back, Pig Iron Theatre Company — among the nation’s most cutting-edge — dipped into the classics ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Nerds,’ the newly downloaded Nerds.2 version
The musical “Nerds” is like a new digital game that grabs your attention and won’t let go. Forget about everything else, it will wa ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Sophie Tucker’ at the Walnut, after all these years
When Sophie Tucker was 25 and just becoming a star, she reportedly brought down the house during a show called ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: The flash (and not) of ‘Flashdance’
This just in, from the stage of “Flashdance: The Musical” at the Academy of Music: The three majestic rivers that define the ...
11 years ago
Review: Two times around with ‘I Am My Own Wife’
Among several neat things about Charlie DelMarcelle’s current run at Theatre Horizon, as the singularly eccentric German transvesti ...
11 years ago
Review: ‘Elf’ dropped to Earth, as a holiday stage musical
The movie “Elf” is a sweet little holiday heart-tug. So is the musical taken from the movie and now on the Walnut Street Thea ...
11 years ago
ListenReview: Class and race in a fiery ‘Stick Fly’
The glib fast-talk in “Stick Fly” – and there’s a ton of it in the richly plotted play now at the Arden Theatre – m ...
11 years ago
Cutting the ribbon on Arden Theatre’s second building
At the 25-year-old Arden Theatre Company on Second Street, things were getting really tight inside its building with common areas and two ...
11 years ago
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