
Howard Shapiro
Program HostHoward Shapiro is host of In A Broadway Minute, which airs Fridays at 8 am and Saturdays at 10 am.
Howard began reviewing Broadway shows for The Classical Network in 2010. He also reviews Philadelphia theater for WHYY, and the written versions of his Philadelphia reviews appear on the blog "Shapiro on Theater." Howard -- everyone calls him "Howie" -- spent 10 years as The Philadelphia Inquirer’s staff theater critic, reviewing in metropolitan Philadelphia and on Broadway. During nearly 43 years at the newspaper, his assorted reporting and editing jobs included cultural arts editor and editor of the Travel section. He’s been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an Internews Fellow in Greece. He was a fellow, and later a mentor, at the National Endowment for the Arts Institute for theater critics in Los Angeles. Howard teaches arts criticism and travel writing at Temple University and has been hanging around theaters much of his life.criticism and travel writing at Temple University and has been hanging around theaters much of his life.
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Stephen Sondheim's musical "Company" is being revived on Broadway with a major new twist - the leading character, who has been male, is now a Manhattan…
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The beleaguered and abused six wives of Henry the Eighth get back at him in the new rock musical called "Six" on Broadway. Hear Theater Critic Howard…
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The film "Mrs. Doubtfire," a hit from 1993, is now a Broadway musical, currently on hiatus. This week on In a Broadway Minute, theater critic Howard…
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"Flying Over Sunset" is a new musical at Lincoln Center about three well-known real-life people who come together fictionally to trip on LSD. Theater…
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There's a new comedy on Broadway about a sandwich shop called "Clyde's," where a kitchen staff of ex-convicts dream about making better sandwiches than…
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Actors portraying the royal family sing and dance in the story of Princess Di, called "Diana: The Musical." But this is a song and dance audiences aren't…
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It took more than six decades for the stinging comedy "Trouble in Mind" to get to Broadway, and now it's playing as a production at the Roundabout Theater…
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The new Broadway play "Thoughts of a Colored Man" looks at the lives of seven black men and how they intersect during a single day in their gentrifying…
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The rise and fall of the Wall Street investment banking firm Lehman Brothers is documented in the play The Lehman Trilogy, now on Broadway. It's a…
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The musical "Caroline, or Change" is now being revived by Roundabout Theatre Compamy on Broadway. Theatre critic Howard Shapiro reviews the musical, the…