Howard Shapiro
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Review: Softly, the FringeArts building opens, with a fitting show
The new FringeArts building at Race Street and Columbus Boulevard, the first permanent home of the organization that runs the annual Phil ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Emma’ — When does a story become theater?
Can a stage adaptation be too faithful to the book it’s taken from? The version of Jane Austen’s venerable “Emma,” ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘The Brothers Size’ — tough love, anyone?
It’s a treat to see “The Brothers Size,” a stirring piece about two adult brothers who mostly get along by not getting ...
9 years ago
Review: Barbara Cook and the rebirth of a cabaret
When the celebrated performer Barbara Cook sang her first notes Wednesday night at the revitalized Prince Music Theater, she wasn’t ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Parade’ passes by, then and now and all at once
The Arden Theatre Company’s stage bursts with talent in its meticulously delivered production of “Parade,” but the pers ...
9 years ago
ListenReview: ‘Evil Dead — the Musical.’ Deadly? Or just evil?
Take cold comfort in the fact that “Evil Dead – the Musical” – a piece of juvenile, B-grade Grizzly Kitsch playing here i ...
9 years ago
Review: ‘Bunny Bunny’ and what friendship means
Nearly a generation ago, Alan Zweibel wrote a sweet and funny play called “Bunny Bunny” about his deep 15-year friendship wit ...
9 years ago
Philly Fringe review: ‘Dutch Masters’
Two guys strike up an unlikely conversation on a New York subway car. One is a young black man; the other, young and white. The black man ...
9 years ago
Philly Fringe reviews: ‘LEO’ and ‘The Sea Plays’
LEO. Fred Astaire danced on the floor, the walls and the ceiling of a room in the 1951 movie, “Royal Wedding.̶ ...
9 years ago
Review: Nailing it ‘In the Heights’
The high-voltage production of the musical “In the Heights,” opening Walnut Street Theatre’s 205th season, is a supersonic trick: I ...
9 years ago
ListenPhilly Fringe reviews: ‘Life and Times’ and ‘Hush Now Sweet High Heels and Oak’
Life and Times. The folks at the Nature Theater of Oklahoma asked a woman they knew to tell them her life’s story ...
9 years ago
Philly Fringe review: ‘The Quiet Volume’
I came into the Free Library’s Central Branch only 45 minutes after putting down my Nook, on which I’d been reading a detecti ...
9 years ago
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