
Robert Hofler
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‘Let the Right One In’ Theater Review: Eli’s Back and She’s Learned a New Trick From Carrie
By Robert Hofler | January 25, 2015 @ 7:00 PMThis little vampire makes you believe she can bite, wrestle and choke a man twice her size to death. It’s like a trip back to the Grand Guignol and just as bloody
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‘I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard’ Theater Review: Halley Feiffer Writes Her Daddy Dearest Play
By Robert Hofler | January 20, 2015 @ 7:00 PMThe drama can be described as ”Whiplash“ meets ”The Heiress,“ as the writer goes straight for the jugular through the heart
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‘Honeymoon in Vegas’ Theater Review: Jason Robert Brown Gambles on Andrew Bergman’s Movie
By Robert Hofler | January 15, 2015 @ 7:00 PMIn this age of gross-out humor, the fiancée-as-payment plot is relatively mild. But smarm stills needs charm to work on stage
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‘The Invisible Hand’ Theater Review: It’s ‘Margin Call’ Set Inside a Pakistani Bunker
By Robert Hofler | December 8, 2014 @ 5:00 PMAyad Akhtar creates suspense, not from an impending beheading but from what a prisoner teaches his captor about the stock market
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Bradley Cooper in ‘The Elephant Man’ Offers Gorgeous Along With The Beast
By Robert Hofler | December 8, 2014 @ 7:53 AMWith Cooper in the lead, the play takes on new meaning, teaching us what it’s like to be a movie star in ways E! and TMZ never could
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‘The Illusionists’ Theater Review: It’s a Magic Show That’s Houdini Times Seven
By Robert Hofler | December 4, 2014 @ 6:00 PMAnyone who’s ever seen newsreels of Houdini has wanted to go back in time to experience first-hand the cheesy excitement of seeing a stunt performer risk his life. Here’s your chance
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11 Hollywood Stars Who Did Big Business on Broadway in 2014 (Photos)
By Anita Bennett and Robert Hofler | December 2, 2014 @ 6:26 PMThese movie and TV veterans filled seats and drew legions of fans to the Great White Way
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‘A Particle of Dread’ Theater Review: Sam Shepard and Stephen Rea Eyeball Oedipus
By Robert Hofler | November 23, 2014 @ 7:00 PMRea may be the first Oedipus to play the role in blood-spattered overalls, and he deftly handles Shepard’s freewheeling segues from tragedy to slapstick and back
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‘A Delicate Balance’ Theater Review: Glenn Close Revisits More Than One Diva
By Robert Hofler | November 20, 2014 @ 7:00 PMClose’s strong, unyielding matriarch is sister to Norma Desmond from ”Sunset Boulevard,“ the actress’ last role on Broadway twenty years ago
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‘By the Water’ Theater Review: Superstorm Sandy Returns, This Time with Glimpses of Arthur Miller
By Robert Hofler | November 18, 2014 @ 7:00 PMSharyn Rothstein’s new play recalls Miller’s ”All My Sons,“ and to her credit, the absorbing story deserves more than its current one act
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‘Punk Rock’ Theater Review: Simon Stephens’ New Play Is Much More Than a ‘Curious Incident’
By Robert Hofler | November 17, 2014 @ 7:00 PMSome of the British slang doesn’t translate, but Stephens’ grasp of those young hormones that can create a ”Lord of the Flies“ situation does cross the pond
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‘Side Show’ Theater Review: Bill Condon Gives Twin Dreamgirls Another Shot at Stardom
By Robert Hofler | November 17, 2014 @ 4:00 PMIn this smashing new revival, the Hilton sisters are treated as ”freaks,“ but Condon quickly ups the glam quotient to create a novel Cinderella story
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‘The River’ Theater Review: Hugh Jackman Gives a Lesson in Fly-Fishing
By Robert Hofler | November 16, 2014 @ 6:00 PMThere’s much talk about reflection and recycling in Jez Butterworth’s play about a devoted fisherman-womanizer. But where’s the sexual heat?
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‘Lost Lake’ Theater Review: John Hawkes Channels Wile E. Coyote
By Robert Hofler | November 11, 2014 @ 7:00 PMHawkes delivers a great performance — and that’s even before he speaks a word on stage. Fortunately, he gets to talk a lot in David Auburn’s new play
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‘Sticks and Bones’ Theater Review: Holly Hunter and Bill Pullman Tackle Ozzie and Harriet
By Robert Hofler | November 6, 2014 @ 4:15 PMIt’s not torture or ISIS that trouble America’s TV family when a son comes home from Vietnam; but in this harrowing revival, the nightmare is the same