
Robert Hofler
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‘Macbeth’ Theater Review: Ethan Hawke Stars in a Movie-Friendly Staging
By Robert Hofler | November 21, 2013 @ 7:00 PMDirector Jack O’Brien lets us know that this is a very human-scale drama, but later in the play you may wonder who’s that horrible couple everybody’s gossiping about
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‘The Commons of Pensacola’ Theater Review: Blythe Danner Rocks, Sarah Jessica Parker Recyles
By Robert Hofler | November 21, 2013 @ 7:00 PMAmanda Peet’s ”The Commons of Pensacola“ belongs to that class of TV pilots that never get picked up and instead take up residence in Hollywood’s tiny store-front theaters
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‘A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder’ Theater Review: Broadway’s Tops ‘Kind Hearts and Coronets’
By Robert Hofler | November 17, 2013 @ 3:22 PMDarko Tresnjak directs a compact, wickedly witty new musical. Especially delightful is the cheesy execution of the show’s hysterically funny murders
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‘Domesticated’ Theater Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays the Lowest of the Low
By Robert Hofler | November 4, 2013 @ 7:08 PMAfter taking on the racial divide in his Pulitzer Prize-winning ”Clybourne Park,“ Bruce Norris returns to examine the war of the sexes in an equally funny and scathing comedy
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‘Betrayal’ Theater Review: James Bond’s a Loutish Cuckold
By Robert Hofler | October 27, 2013 @ 7:00 PMIt’s a marvel of acting to watch Daniel Craig slowly bring the subtext of raging anger to the fore in scene after scene of this Harold Pinter revival
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‘The Snow Geese’ Theater Review: Mary-Louise Parker Gets Lost in the Weeds
By Robert Hofler | October 24, 2013 @ 7:00 PMThe characters unburden themselves of so much complicated history in the first moments that you might consider retitling it ”Autumn: Onondaga County“
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‘The Landing’ Theater Review: The New John Kander Musical’s for People Who Don’t Like Musicals
By Robert Hofler | October 23, 2013 @ 7:00 PMDavid Hyde Pierce stars in John Kander’s first musical without longtime collaborator Fred Ebb, and there’s not a showgirl or boy in sight.
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‘A Time to Kill’ Theater Review: John Grisham’s Tale Should Have Settled Out of Court
By Robert Hofler | October 20, 2013 @ 5:00 PMWhen you strip Grisham’s panoramic tale of racism and injustice down to a courtroom drama, there really isn’t much of a trial at the heart of it
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‘Big Fish’ Theater Review: It Sings, It Dances, but Wait — Isn’t That ‘The Little Mermaid’?
By Robert Hofler | October 6, 2013 @ 5:04 PMThe Tim Burton movie is now a musical, which is at its best when it thinks small and sticks to Daniel Wallace’s novel.
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‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Review: Ben Stiller’s Daydreamer Tries Too Hard
By Robert Hofler | October 5, 2013 @ 2:25 PMStiller’s ”Mitty“ tries so hard that his adventures — both real and imagined– are neither intriguing nor amusing
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‘The Glass Menagerie’ Theater Review: Zachary Quinto Goes for the Jugular
By Robert Hofler | September 26, 2013 @ 8:03 PM”Star Trek“ star segues from space to stage in a class-act ”Menagerie“
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‘Romeo & Juliet’ Theater Review: Orlando Bloom Debuts, but Wherefore Art Thou Condola Rashad?
By Robert Hofler | September 19, 2013 @ 7:30 PMIn the new modern-dress Broadway revival, the two lovers aren’t so much star-crossed as totally mismatched