181 stories by "Howard Shapiro"
Having the formidable Lady Bracknell among us - she appears in two of the three acts of Oscar Wilde's stylish comedy The Importance of Being Earnest - is to be faced down by Victorian London…
If the play is the thing but the cost is not, there's theater at the cinema.
Talk about taking on a challenge: EgoPo Classic Theater's artistic director, Lane Savadove, and local actor Ross Beschler set about adapting a 1908 French novel called L'Enfer, or Hell, to t…
I enjoyed A Passing Wind - how can you poo-poo a show that seizes the characters of Sigmund Freud (the excellent Tim Moyer), actress Sarah Bernhardt (Maureen Torsney-Weir), artist Claude Mon…
In the middle of a whirlwind week this month, Rose Hemingway finished stage-smooching with Daniel Radcliffe in a matinee performance of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and t…
Let's raise a glass to shtick, the little, often unscripted physical stage business that can turn a moment of fun into a heightened laff-riot. And here's a toast to The 39 Steps - the show a…