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New City Stage Company's world premiere of Mac Rogers' spy thriller 'Asymmetric,' offers the kind of entertainment that's usually enjoyed while lounging on the sofa, holding a remote, says c…
Here’s the funny thing about Art, Yasmina Reza’s much-produced comic drama about three men and a painting: It’s truly a matter of perspective. A director can go serious wit…
It was Peter Pan who long ago captured a little guy in Overbrook named Stephen C. Byrd and goaded him, during the next several decades, to Neverland. His grandma was an accessory to this - s…
MOMIX offers an exotic caravan of pieces to an enthusiastic audience at the Annenberg, says critic Merilyn Jackson.
Actor Hal Holbrook has been performing as Mark Twain for six decades. Now, he's getting an award named after the author and humorist.
In a basement in a quiet suburb 10 miles west of Manhattan, the characters of a bygone era in pop music are brought to life in mellifluous four-part harmony.
PRINCETON — From the get-go, you know you’re into a bizarre tale with John Guare’s Are You There, McPhee?, a world premiere that opened Friday at Princeton’s McCarter…
“If you could only know what it is to have lost everything…. Every hope has deserted me.” That a Russian writer penned these lines in 1895 might not surprise us. That the…
John Guare's mix of realism and fanstasy in "Are You There, McPhee?" a world premiere at McCarter Theatre, becomes a tiresome saga. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews from Prince…
It has to be said: Much of Riverdance is profoundly dumb. This is not the fault of the performers — appealing, energetic, and superbly trained dancers, singers, and musicians who, on…
The thought, sound, and rhythm of Khalil Munir’s hour-long theatrical memoir, 1 pound 4 ounces, are delivered not just in well-considered words but in the taps on his shoes. Munir, a P…
Bristol Riverside Theatre’s current production of Rent marks the fifth I’ve reviewed, more than any other show, including Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet. Since the second Clinton pr…
By Howard Shapiro
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The thought, sound and rhythm of Khalil Munir's hour-long theatrical memoir, "1 pound 4 ounces" are delivered not just in well-considered words but …
An easy-going "Robin Hood" has its feet in different eras in Arden Theatre Company's smooth production. Inquirer theater critic Howard Shapiro reviews.
Robin Hood stands at the edge of Sherwood Forest, strumming what looks like a lute gone angular, and lamenting "Marian, I love you, girl!" For a second, he's a lounge lizard in the…
NEW YORK — When Julian Erskine last saw the American touring company of Riverdance, he had to smile. He was in the Segerstrom Center for the Arts on an October night in Costa Mesa, Cal…
Souvenir, Stephen Temperley’s memory play about the 12-year relationship between 1940s society warbler Florence Foster Jenkins (more on that warbling in a moment) and her stalwart pian…
So the Metropolitan Opera didn’t produce the universally acclaimed Ring cycle that the Wagner community was hoping for. But a great behind-the-scenes documentary film about its creatio…
So, what does the old misogynist have to say about lesbians? Surprisingly little. 1812 Productions gives us David Mamet’s Boston Marriage, a mildly amusing comedy about two women whose…
It’s a Grand Night for Singing at the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio, and it no doubt will remain so for the run of this cozy Rodgers and Hammerstein revue. Winding …
Long before J.K. Rowling launched Harry, Hermione, and Ron on their battle against evil, sci-fi author Madeline L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time charged her trio of heroes with a simi…
