Robert Hofler
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‘Jordans’ Off Broadway Review: If This Wild Comedy Isn’t an Homage to Jordan Peele, It Should Be
In a dazzling stage debut, Ife Olujobi delivers a play that’s as funny as it is shocking
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‘Gutenberg! The Musical!’ Broadway Review: Josh Gad and Andrew Rannells Get Stuck in a Printing-Press Mess
No, the life of German inventor Johannes Gutenberg is not a good idea for a musical
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Broadway Review: Daniel Radcliffe and Jonathan Groff Lead a Riveting Revival
The troubled Stephen Sondheim musical finally finds its perfect cast
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‘Jaja’s African Hair Braiding’ Broadway Review: The Beauty-Shop Plays Finally Gets Topical
Jocelyn Bioh borrows, expands and leaps over “Steel Magnolias” and “The Women”
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‘Purlie Victorious’ Broadway Review: Leslie Odom Jr. Gives Ossie Davis’ Preacher a Brilliant Encore
Kenny Leon directs a comic riot that is the season’s funniest show on Broadway
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‘Dig’ Off Broadway Review: Theresa Rebeck’s Play About a Plant Shop
The creator of TV’s “Smash” returns to the stage with an overly plant-friendly drama
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‘The Shark Is Broken’ Broadway Review: Bruce from ‘Jaws’ Pulls a No-Show
The notoriously temperamental mechanical fish wisely skips this on-the-set story
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‘Back to the Future’ Broadway Review: Roger Bart Travels on Autopilot
The gifted comedian delivers the performance this tired exercise in excessive stagecraft deserves
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‘Let’s Call Her Patty’ Off Broadway Review: Rhea Perlman Makes the Upper West Side Fun Again
The “Cheers” legend-turned-“Barbie” standout rocks and chops in an uneven new play by Zarina Shea
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‘Flex’ Off Broadway Review: It’s Sex and the Rural Basketball Court
Five teammates battle for status and against pregnancy in Candrice Jones’ new play
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‘Here Lies Love’ Broadway Review: David Byrne and Fatboy Slim Roast Imelda Marcos
But the real star of this flashy musical is director Alex Timbers
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Tony Awards Predictions 2023: Who Will Win – and Who Should
Jessica Chastain, Sean Hayes, Samuel L. Jackson and Ben Platt await the final verdict on June 11
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‘Life of Pi’ Broadway Review: Making Cannibalism Palatable for Kids
Unfortunately, the puppets look like “The Lion King” on a budget
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
Jamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme
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How Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford’s ‘The Way We Were’ Was Inspired by a Real-Life Gay Romance (Book Excerpt)
In his new book, “The Way They Were,” TheWrap theater critic Robert Hofler recounts how screenwriter Arthur Laurents based the film on his own love life