
Robert Hofler
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‘Cullud Wattah’ Off Broadway Review: A Powerful Kitchen-Sink Drama Set in Flint
By Robert Hofler | November 17, 2021 @ 6:00 PMErika Dickerson-Despenza’s new drama addresses a toxic water crisis in real time
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‘Medicine’ Off Broadway Review: Domhnall Gleeson Makes a Lot of Noise, But Not Much Sense
By Robert Hofler | November 16, 2021 @ 6:00 PMSomeone goes crazy, again, in another new play by Enda Walsh
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‘Assassins’ Off Broadway Review: Presidents Aren’t the Only Targets Now
By Robert Hofler | November 14, 2021 @ 6:30 PMJohn Doyle’s revival exposes the souls of Stephen Sondheim’s most dangerous loners
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‘Nollywood Dreams’ Off Broadway Review: A Star Is Born in Lagos, Nigeria
By Robert Hofler | November 11, 2021 @ 5:00 PMJocelyn Bioh’s new comedy looks for laughs among the TripAdvisor discounts
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‘Gnit’ Off Broadway Review: Will Eno’s Peer Gynt Takes His Comedy Act on the Road
By Robert Hofler | November 7, 2021 @ 2:00 PMPlaywright drops the trolls but mines more comic gold than Ibsen ever imagined
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‘The Visitor’ Off Broadway Review: David Hyde Pierce Plays the Drums as Well as a Saint
By Robert Hofler | November 4, 2021 @ 6:00 PMBased on the 2007 Tom McCarthy movie starring Richard Jenkins, this new musical finds something to sing about regarding ICE
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‘Morning Sun’ Off Broadway Review: Edie Falco Stars in a Version of ‘It’s Not a Wonderful Life’
By Robert Hofler | November 3, 2021 @ 6:00 PMSimon Stephens gives her a rough time in his new play, which spans a life and then some
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‘Caroline, or Change’ Broadway Review: An Unsung Musical Heroine Is Back Where She Belongs
By Robert Hofler | October 27, 2021 @ 6:15 PMTony 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
By Robert Hofler | October 24, 2021 @ 4:30 PMBeane 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
By Robert Hofler | October 17, 2021 @ 5:00 PMLucas 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
By Robert Hofler | October 14, 2021 @ 6:30 PMStefano 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
By Robert Hofler | October 13, 2021 @ 7:00 PMSeven 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
By Robert Hofler | October 12, 2021 @ 4:30 PMThe 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
By Robert Hofler | October 11, 2021 @ 6:00 PMThe 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.
By Robert Hofler | October 10, 2021 @ 6:00 PMA new comedy serves it up thick, sweet and not-so-well done