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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‘The Heart’ Off Broadway Review: The Beat Goes on in a Terrific New Musical About Organ Transplants
A most unusual subject for a musical makes for a most engaging one
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‘A Few Good Men’ Broadway Review: Aaron Sorkin Drama Is Guilty of Being a Creaky Old Play
Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore are replaced by Tom Blyth, Bradley Whitford and Krysta Rodriguez
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‘The Imaginary Invalid’ Broadway Review: Bill Irwin Loses Something in Translation
After playing the Cyclops in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” the actor writes himself a role that too infrequently produces much laughter
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‘860’ Broadway Review: Billy Crystal Loses His Home but Not His Gift to Make Us Laugh
Despite the flames, this comic manages to deliver his greatest hits
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‘Other Desert Cities’ Broadway Review: Julia Louis-Dreyfus Brings Biting Levity to Her Main Stem Debut
Jon Robin Baitz’s great political-family drama gets a second life 15 years after its premiere starring Stockard Channing
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‘Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen’ Off Broadway Review: Sophia Anne Caruso Is the New Edith Piaf
Caruso, first seen as Lydia Deetz in the “Beetlejuice” musical, returns to the stage in a starmaking tour-de-force performance
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‘Degenerates’ Off Broadway Review: Virgin Misogynists Get the Play They Deserve
Else Went’s new play exposes the real problem with men who can’t get laid
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‘Pre-Existing Condition’ Off Broadway Review: Lupita Nyong’o Goes Big to Play an All-Too Common Victim
The Oscar-winning actress doesn’t hold back in Marin Ireland’s new play about a battered woman
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‘The Saviors’ Off Broadway Review: Altar Boys Are Much Nicer Than They Used to Be
Teen actors Ivan Howe and Julius Rinzel deliver terrific performances in Bubba Weiler’s new play about Catholics and Christians
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‘Broad Strokes’ Off Broadway Review: Cat Cohen Delights With a Near-Death Experience
The Netflix comedian (“The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous”) turns literal heartbreak into comic gold
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‘The Whoopi Monologues’ Off Broadway Review: Kerry Washington Brings Back the Valley Girl, and Other Dubious Acts
Less was more when Whoopi Goldberg played all five characters
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‘The Potluck’ Off Broadway Review: One of the Quirkiest Musicals Ever Staged
Cesar Alvarez takes a bloody episode from the past and turns it into the best new musical of the year (so far)
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‘Giulia: The Poison Queen of Palermo’ Off Broadway Review: She’s No Sweeney Todd
Sugarland lead singer Jennifer Nettles turns a Renaissance serial killer into a contemporary feminist heroine
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‘Birthright’ Off Broadway Review: The Year’s Best New Play (So Far) Is a Jewish ‘Big Chill’
Jonathan Spector (“Eureka Day”) delivers a scorchingly funny look at a trip to Israel
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‘La Cage aux Folles’ Off Broadway Review: Billy Porter and Wayne Brady Play It for Real
The 1983 Broadway musical is pretty tired, except when Porter and Brady are on stage together, which is often
