
Robert Hofler
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‘Coal Country’ Theater Review: A Steve Earle Musical With a Huge Carbon Footprint
By Robert Hofler | March 3, 2020 @ 7:00 PMA new show digs coal because, hey, somebody’s got to do life’s dirty work and destroy the planet
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‘The Perplexed’ Theater Review: Why the Really Rich Don’t Really Deserve America
By Robert Hofler | March 3, 2020 @ 6:30 PMRichard Greenberg skewers the wealthy, as well as his put-upon audience
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‘The Hot Wing King’ Theater Review: Katori Hall Blends Sticky Schmaltz With Spicy Sauce
By Robert Hofler | March 1, 2020 @ 6:00 PMPlaywright mixes ”The Boys in the Band“ and ”Torch Song Trilogy“ with a cooking show. More than one character gets indigestion
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‘We’re Gonna Die’ Theater Review: Quick, Pull the Plug Now!
By Robert Hofler | February 25, 2020 @ 6:30 PMYoung Jean Lee tells us the obvious over and over again in a show that’s good only because it’s very short
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‘Dana H.’ Theater Review: She Lip Syncs Her Way to Hell and Back
By Robert Hofler | February 25, 2020 @ 6:00 PMLucas Hnath adapts interviews conducted with his mother, once captive to the Aryan Brotherhood. The result is harrowing
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‘The Headlands’ Theater Review: A Classic Film Noir Finds Its Way to the Stage
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:30 PMChristopher Chen’s new mystery intrigues with its many twists and turns. If only he had put a more cynical sleuth at its center
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‘All the Natalie Portmans’ Theater Review: The Oscar Winner Fuels a Teenager’s Fantasies
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:00 PMC.A. Johnson’s new drama is driven by Kara Young’s terrific performance. Less wonderful is the ”Black Swan“ star
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‘Cambodian Rock Band’ Theater Review: A Fresh Look at the Khmer Rouge That Oozes Suspense
By Robert Hofler | February 24, 2020 @ 6:00 PMLauren Yee’s play explores the atrocities of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge with a narrator who’s as funny as he is wicked and warped
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‘West Side Story’ Broadway Review: Will Ivo van Hove’s Cinematic Revival Upstage Steven Spielberg?
By Robert Hofler | February 20, 2020 @ 5:00 PMThe classic musical about the Sharks and the Jets has never been tougher or better
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‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ Theater Review: Carla Gugino and Company Face Their Own End
By Robert Hofler | February 18, 2020 @ 6:00 PMAlice Birch’s new play exposes the false escape hatch that is motherhood
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‘Dracula’ and ‘Frankenstein’ Theater Reviews: Our Favorite Monsters Get a Makeover
By Robert Hofler | February 17, 2020 @ 6:00 PMBram Stoker gets an unexpected transfusion. Mary Shelley should demand a rewrite
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‘Darling Grenadine’ Theater Review: Daniel Zaitchik’s Original Musical Is Wonderful and Unabashedly Romantic
By Robert Hofler | February 10, 2020 @ 6:30 PMA new talent in the theater dazzles with a simple but ultimately dark love story
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‘Hamlet’ Theater Review: Ruth Negga Delivers Bard’s Danish Prince as Joker Jr.
By Robert Hofler | February 10, 2020 @ 6:00 PMThe Oscar-nominated actor pulls a Sarah Bernhardt in her American stage debut
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‘Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Version of ’60s Classic Doesn’t Swing
By Robert Hofler | February 4, 2020 @ 5:00 PMPaul Mazursky’s classic movie now has singing couples, plus Suzanne Vega as bandleader/narrator
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‘The Thin Place’ Theater Review: Lucas Hnath Conjures a Seance Worth Attending
By Robert Hofler | December 12, 2019 @ 6:00 PMThe playwright frustrates and then seduces with a drama that lives on the edges of his heroine’s face