In a Broadway Minute
with Howard Shapiro
Join Howard Shapiro every Friday at 8:30 a.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m. for a short review of the latest Broadway shows. Theater critic Howard Shapiro joined the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1970 and has held a number of reporting and editing positions, including cultural arts editor and travel editor and writer. For two years, he hosted a weekly podcast with interviews about the professional Philadelphia theater community, and also has reviewed Broadway for the newspaper. He's currently a staff writer and theater critic for the newspaper, and teaches arts criticism and travel writing at Temple University.
2012
January 6
STICK FLY
An upper-class African American family on Martha's Vineyard
2011
December 30
SEMINAR
A new play about writing, and more
December 23
PRIVATE LIVES
The Seventh Broadway revival of Noel Coward's play
December 16
HUGH JACKMAN, BACK ON BROADWAY
The Aussie actor as song-and-dance man (Through Jan. 12)
December 9
GODSPELL
An updated revival for the show's 40th anniversary
December 2
AN EVENING WITH PATTI LuPONE AND MANDY PATINKIN
Two Broadway stars in a simple, sweet concert
November 25
VENUS IN FUR
A steamy new play by David Ives
November 18
THE MOUNTAINTOP
A fantasy about the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
November 11
CH'ING'LISH
A comedy about how we do business in China
November 4
OTHER DESERT CITIES
Stockard Channing, Stacy Keach in a new American Play
October 28
CAROLS FOR A CURE
Broadway's charity gift to you
October 21
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
One-acts by Ethan Coen, Elaine May and Woody Allen
September 16
FOLLIES
The Sondheim revival, with Bernadette Peters
September 9
9/11 AND BROADWAY
An ad that speaks to those terrible days
September 2
COMING UP
What's coming soon in the new season
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