Robert Hofler
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‘The Rolling Stone’ Theater Review: The Fight Goes on for Gay Ugandans
Chris Urch’s drama examines extreme homophobia in Africa, only to find that family is more important than freedom
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‘We’re Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time’ Theater Review: Memoir as Therapy
David Cale looks back a tragedy in his family and sings about it
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‘Toni Stone’ Theater Review: A Magnificent Drama About the First Woman to Play Pro Baseball
Lydia R. Diamond’s fine fact-based new play profiles an amazing athlete and trailblazer
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‘A Strange Loop’ Theater Review: Tyler Perry Won’t Be Optioning This Musical
The man behind Madea gets roasted in Michael R. Jackson’s hilarious new musical
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‘The Secret Life of Bees’ Theater Review: Duncan Sheik’s Musical Honey Pot Runneth Over
Lynn Nottage and Duncan Sheik’s stage adaptation of the best-selling novel and movie is faithful to a fault
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‘Lost Long’ Theater Review: Donald Margulies Writes a Play That Cries Uncle
The Pulitizer Prize-winning author of “Dinner With Friends” delivers an unwanted houseguest who should never be allowed on stage
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‘Dying City’ Theater Review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead Juggles Twin Brothers
Christopher Shinn directs an uneven production of his own play set in a traumatized New York City during the Iraq War
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Tony Award Predictions 2019: From ‘Mockingbird’ Backlash to ‘Hadestown’
The winners are announced June 9 at Radio City Music Hall in New York City
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‘BLKS’ Theater Review: When Women Aren’t Afraid to Show Their Muscle
Aziza Barnes’s comedy benefits from Robert O’Hara’s broad-strokes direction and two inspired actors
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‘Passage’ Theater Review: Provocative Drama Asks If the Cultural Divide Can Ever Be Bridged
Christopher Chen’s provocative new play shows what happens to good people on both sides of a geopolitical divide
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‘Grief Is the Thing With Feathers’ Theater Review: Cillian Murphy Takes Flight
Enda Walsh adapts Max Porter’s novel into a nightmare of a play that exhausts, but in a fascinating way
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Tony Awards 2019: We Predict the Nominees, From ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ to ‘Tootsie’
Expect a lot of love for Daniel Fish’s radical new revival of “Oklahoma!”
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‘Beetlejuice’ Broadway Review: Tim Burton’s Ghosts Turn Scarily Uncomic in Musical Misfire
Alex Brightman plays Michael Keaton’s character from the 1988 big-screen comedy
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‘Ink’ Broadway Review: Rupert Murdoch Gets Hit With a Puff Piece
James Graham’s play treats the mogul’s revamp of tabloid journalism like a Broadway musical, and not a very serious one
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‘Tootsie’ Broadway Review: Santino Fontana Can’t Fill Dustin Hoffman’s Heels in New Musical
In composer David Yazbek’s musical version of the 1982 Oscar winner, cross-dressing heroine Dorothy Michaels doesn’t learn a thing
 














