Robert Hofler
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‘Caroline, or Change’ Broadway Review: An Unsung Musical Heroine Is Back Where She Belongs
Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori’s groundbreaking musical sounds better than ever
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‘Fairycakes’ Off Broadway Review: Douglas Carter Beane’s Fairy Tale Mash-Up Takes Flight
Beane recycles a bit of everything and makes it all rhyme
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‘Dana H.’ Broadway Review: Deirdre O’Connell Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
Lucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Lehman Trilogy’ Broadway Review: Sam Mendes Directs a Family’s Financial Undoing
Stefano Massini’s saga of an American empire gone belly up returns to New York City
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‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Broadway Review: A Gripping Look at Black Masculinity in the Barbershop and Beyond
Seven men tell very different stories in Keenan Scott II’s powerful new drama
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‘Letters of Suresh’ Off Broadway Review: Rajiv Joseph Drama Unfolds at the Pace of Snail Mail
The gorgeous projection design gives the Second Stage production its only sense of motion
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‘Is This a Room’ Broadway Review: Whistleblower Reality Winner’s Trauma in Her Own Words
The Air Force veteran exposed Russian interference in the 2016 election, and she just got out of jail this past June
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‘Chicken & Biscuits’ Broadway Review: All the Fun of a Trip to Carl’s Jr.
A new comedy serves it up thick, sweet and not-so-well done
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‘Lackawanna Blues’ Broadway Review: The Many Faces of Ruben Santiago-Hudson
The actor-writer-director does it all, and does it magnificently
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‘Six’ Broadway Review: The Real Housewives of Henry VIII Put on a Show
A pop musical travels the world before opening on the Great White Way, finally. But does female empowerment still pack a punch?
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‘Sanctuary City’ Off Broadway Review: A Gripping Look at Young People Caught in US Immigration Trap
Martyna Majok gives voice to a young man’s harrowing isolation
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‘Pass Over’ Broadway Review: Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Searing Fable of Police Brutality Gets a Rewrite
Now on Broadway after the George Floyd murder, Nwandu’s play is just as powerful
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Inside That 50-Year-Old Same-Sex Kiss in ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ (Guest Blog)
“I didn’t think that it should be portrayed with any kind of apology,” director John Schlesinger said of Peter Finch and Murray Head’s lip-lock in 1971 film
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Remembering Pat Loud, America’s First Reality TV Mom (Guest Blog)
The star of the groundbreaking 1973 series “An American Family” never fully recovered from the negative reaction to the show
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How Larry Kramer Pulled Off the First Film With Frontal Male Nudity – Back in 1969
In an excerpt from his book “Sexplosion,” Robert Hofler explores the late writer’s work on director Ken Russell’s groundbreaking film “Women in Love”