Robert Hofler
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‘The Mother’ Theater Review: An Empty Nest Imprisons Isabelle Huppert
Chris Noth joins the actress in Florian Zeller’s latest exploration into parental madness
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‘Be More Chill’ Broadway Review: This Coming-of-Age Musical Is a Real Pill to Swallow
An internet phenomenon, based on Ned Vizzini’s cult novel, arrives on Broadway with all the flavor of fast-food chicken. It’s crispy
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‘If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhf–a’ Theater Review: That Title Is a Problem
Muhf–a? Tori Sampson just lost her core audience for this cautionary tale about teens who think looks are everything
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‘The Cake’ Theater Review: ‘That ’70s Show’ Mom Debra Jo Rupp Plays a Lovable Bigot
Cute homophobes meet loving lesbians in a North Carolina bakery in Bekah Brunstetter’s sermon of a play
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‘Daddy’ Theater Review: Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet Discover Lust in a Bel-Air Pool
Regression and mutual exploitation are the hallmarks of an art-world affair in Jeremy O. Harris’ brilliant new play
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‘Superhero’ Theater Review: Tom Kitt and John Logan’s New Musical Creates an Extraordinary Ex-Bus Driver
Bryce Pinkham finds another eccentric/bizarre/screwed-up character to call his own
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‘Alice by Heart’ Theater Review: Lewis Carroll Gets Stuck in a London Tube in Duncan Sheik’s Musical
Another stage adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” fails to re-create the magic of the original
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‘Marys Seacole’ Theater Review: 2 Jamaican Nurses Bring Comfort to an Alien World
In Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new play, caregivers speak to each other across the centuries to find that little has changed
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‘Hurricane Diane’ Theater Review: Dionysus Returns as a Lesbian Landscaper
Madeleine George’s new comedy recalls Clare Boothe Luce’s “The Women” and Mary McCarthy’s “The Group”
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ Theater Review: Stephen Sondheim Steps Backward
The composer’s most famous flop is now shorter and cast with only six actors. It still doesn’t work
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‘Switzerland’ Theater Review: Patricia Highsmith Takes Another Shot at Ripley
The author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” and “Strangers on a Train” finds herself stranded in the Alps
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‘The Light’ Theater Review: The Battle of the Sexes in the Post-Brett Kavanaugh Era
Loy A. Webb’s remarkable new play begins as a staged essay but ends up charting the disintegration of a very real romance
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‘My Fair Lady’ Broadway Review: Laura Benanti’s Eliza Doolittle Suffers a Midlife Crisis
This flower girl is all grown up and more than ready to stop selling flowers
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‘True West’ Broadway Review: Ethan Hawke Soars, Paul Dano Flits in Sam Shepard Drama
The two brothers in Shepard’s play are supposed to be different but not this different
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‘Eddie and Dave’ Theater Review: What a Drag! Van Halen Reimagined With Women as Classic Rockers
Amy Staats’ new comedy lampoons Van Halen by showing the men for what they really are