Robert Hofler is the Theater Critic at TheWrap, writing reviews about Broadway and Off Broadway shows. He is an author of several books on the entertainment industry, including “The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson” and “Money, Murder, and Dominick Dunne.” Hofler was previously an editor at Variety and Life magazine, among other publications.
Experience:
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2025 Tony Nominations Predictions: Who Gets In, and Who Should?
The 2024-25 Broadway season is one of the most competitive in recent years
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‘Real Women Have Curves’ Broadway Review: Latinas Take Cover to Break Free
A timely, feel-good musical brings the 2024-25 theater season to a rousing finish
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‘Dead Outlaw’ Broadway Review: Never Before Has a Musical Been So Strangely Alive
The star of this show is a mummy that goes on a most twisted, tune-filled journey
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‘Just in Time’ Broadway Review: Jonathan Groff Is Great! But Where’s Bobby Darin?
The Tony-winning star of “Merrily We Roll Along” rarely meets the playboy crooner of “Mack the Knife”
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‘Pirates!’ Broadway Review: David Hyde Pierce Steals a Show That’s Only Half Ship-Shape
A radically retooled “Pirates of Penzance” makes a rocky voyage to New Orleans
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‘Stranger Things: The First Shadow’ Broadway Review: Netflix Mashes Up With ‘Grease’ and Stephen King
Stephen Daldry’s flashy direction and Kate Trefry’s comic adaptation makes for an oddball jukebox musical
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‘Floyd Collins’ Broadway Review: Jeremy Jordan Soars While His Character Is Trapped
His great performance galvanizes a high-profile revival that further enhances the brilliance of composer Adam Guettel
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‘John Proctor Is the Villain’ Broadway Review: Sadie Sink Deconstructs ‘The Crucible’
The “Stranger Things” star returns to the stage in yet another play about white male toxicity
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‘Smash’ Broadway Review: Taking a Sharp Pin to the Marilyn Monroe Balloon
To its credit, the new stage musical, based on the NBC TV series, is more send-up than celebration of the sex symbol
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‘Old Friends’ Broadway Review: Do We Need Another Stephen Sondheim Revue?
This tired songfest does nothing to enhance the master composer’s reputation
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‘Becoming Eve’ Off Broadway Review: God Herself Would Have to Applaud Richard Schiff
The Emmy-winning “West Wing” actor stars in a great new play about three very different rabbis
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‘Boop!’ Broadway Review: First Barbie, Now Betty Gets Dragged Into the 21 Century
It’s “boop-oop-a-doop” for a musical that needs a good spritz of Pooph
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‘The Last Five Years’ Broadway Review: Nick Jonas & Adrienne Warren Make Love in Reverse
The two stars have chemistry, but get crossed-up in a weak production that is both minimal and messy
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‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Broadway Review: George Clooney Takes on McCarthy, Then Musk
In a spectacular Broadway debut as actor and writer, the star scores major points for America’s left
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‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Broadway Review: Bob Odenkirk Dazzles, Kieran Culkin Surprises in Uneven Revival
The two stars, joined by Bill Burr and Michael McKean, take very difference approaches to David Mamet’s classic
