
Robert Hofler
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‘Shucked’ Broadway Review: A New Musical That Doesn’t Actually Suck
By By Robert Hofler | April 4, 2023 @ 6:00 PMThe joke-packed book is by Robert Horn, which rhymes with ”corn“
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‘Life of Pi’ Broadway Review: Making Cannibalism Palatable for Kids
By Robert Hofler | March 31, 2023 @ 3:44 AMUnfortunately, the puppets look like ”The Lion King“ on a budget
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‘Sweeney Todd’ Broadway Review: Josh Groban Delivers a Kinder Serial Killer
By By Robert Hofler | March 26, 2023 @ 6:00 PMAnd he sings very sweetly while slitting all those throats
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‘Bad Cinderella’ Broadway Review: Frankly, She’s Also a Real Brat
By By Robert Hofler | March 23, 2023 @ 10:47 PMAndrew Lloyd Webber struggles with the Disney formula
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‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin” Broadway Review: The Legend’s Back – but How Much of Him Do We Get?
By By Robert Hofler | March 19, 2023 @ 5:07 PMWayne Cilento, an original cast member, reshapes this 1978 dance show
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‘Parade’ Broadway Review: Ben Platt Leads a Great Revival of a Modern Classic
By By Robert Hofler | March 16, 2023 @ 7:00 PMAlfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s musical marches to a different, softer beat
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‘The Harder They Come’ Off Broadway Review: How to Cut Jimmy Cliff Down to Size
By By Robert Hofler | March 15, 2023 @ 7:00 PMSuzan-Lori Parks radically bowdlerizes the classic movie for the musical stage
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‘The Coast Starlight’ Off Broadway Review: We’re Not Traveling in the Quiet Car
By By Robert Hofler | March 14, 2023 @ 1:51 PMKevin Bunin’s play follows six strangers on a train from Los Angeles to Seattle
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‘A Doll’s House’ Broadway Review: Jessica Chastain Plays Ibsen’s Nora Sitting Down
By Robert Hofler | March 9, 2023 @ 5:32 PMJamie Lloyd’s staging of the classic takes minimalism to the extreme
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‘The Trees’ Off Broadway Review: The Title Rhymes With Twee
By By Robert Hofler | March 5, 2023 @ 6:30 PMTrees aren’t the only things that don’t move in Agnes Borsinky’s new play
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‘The Seagull/Woodstock, NY’ Off Broadway Review: Parker Posey Steals the Spotlight
By By Robert Hofler | February 28, 2023 @ 4:30 PMThomas Bradshaw’s very funny update transforms the Chekhov classic into a send-up of bed, Broadway and beyond
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‘Letters From Max’ Off Broadway Review: Death Becomes Them
By By Robert Hofler | February 27, 2023 @ 8:30 PMSarah Ruhl adapts an epistolary book into a solemn stage exercise in endurance, grief and self-congratulation
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‘Black Odyssey’ Off Broadway Review: Ulysses Now Travels Home to Harlem
By By Robert Hofler | February 26, 2023 @ 3:00 PMMarcus Gardley’s exhilarating new play is as much a send-up as an update of Homer
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‘A Bright New Boise’ Off Broadway Review: Hobby Lobby May Be Even Worse Than You Imagined
By By Robert Hofler | February 21, 2023 @ 6:00 PMAn early play from Samuel D. Hunter has echoes of his new movie, ”The Whale“
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‘The Wanderers’ Off Broadway Review: A Woody Allen-Tinged Character Pursues Katie Holmes on the Internet
By By Robert Hofler | February 16, 2023 @ 6:00 PMAnna Ziegler’s play recalls the best of a banished filmmaker while plunging us even deeper into old Brooklyn