Robert Hofler
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‘Jelly’s Last Jam’ Off Broadway Review: How Jazz Was Born, or Was it?
Jelly Roll Morton gets the anti-hagiography treatment
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‘Oh, Mary!’ Off Broadway Review: An Untold Story of the White House’s Worst Marriage
The 16th president and Mrs. Abe Lincoln survived the Civil War, but not Cole Escola’s wild new play
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‘Russian Troll Farm’ Off Broadway Review: Hitting a New Low in Election Interference
Playwright Sarah Gancher has 20-20 hindsight and still gets it wrong on the 2016 presidential election
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‘The Connector’ Off Broadway Review: Scott Bakula Gets Smeared With News Print
Jonathan Marc Sherman and Jason Robert Brown’s new musical attempts to locate the source of fake news
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‘Jonah’ Off Broadway Review: How a Fantasy Becomes Reality if You Write About It
Rachel Bonds’ fascinating new play finds hope in an author’s imagination
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‘Days of Wine and Roses’ Broadway Review: Kelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James Fire Up a Truly Great Musical
Musical theater lightning strikes twice with Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s long-awaited follow-up to “The Light in the Piazza”
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10 Best New York Theater Productions of 2023 | Photos
Ranking the year’s best on the boards, from the staging of a classic Cuban album to the first half of Sondheim’s last musical
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‘Appropriate’ Broadway Review: Sarah Paulson and Elle Fanning Fuel a Spectacular Family Smash-Up
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ contemporary classic about the sins of the father receives a stellar revival
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‘Buena Vista Social Club’ Off Broadway Review: How Cuba’s Music Fuels Its Survival
A landmark album is now an exciting stage musical and dance spectacular
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‘How to Dance in Ohio’ Broadway Review: Or, How a Therapist Trips Over His Own Patients
Autism comes to the big boards in a muddled new musical
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‘Manahatta’ Off Broadway Review: How the 2008 Wall Street Collapse Was Centuries in the Making
Mary Kathryn Nagle puts capitalism on the chopping block with a new play about the Lenape Nation
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‘Madwomen of the West’ Off Broadway Review: Four Famous Faces Stage a Wild Reunion
Melanie Mayron, Marilu Henner, Brooke Adams and Caroline Aaron headline a birthday brunch from hell
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‘Walk on Through’ Off Broadway Review: Gavin Creel Casts Himself as a Museum Virgin
The Tony-winning actor also writes pretty great songs about experiencing the Met for the first time
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‘Spain’ Off Broadway Review: A Movie Classic Gets a Makeover
Jen Silverman reimagines the story behind the making of “The Spanish Earth”
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‘The Gardens of Anuncia’ Off Broadway Review: How Great Art Survives Terrible Politics
Michael John LaChiusa sets Graciela Daniele’s life to song, and the subject directs it with her usual grace and flair