Robert Hofler
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‘Lost Girls’ Theater Review: Piper Perabo Is Mad as Hell at Men and Everybody Else
The men in John Pollono’s new play are so verbally battered by women they could qualify for FEMA
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‘Allegiance’ Broadway Review: George Takei Looks Back at World War II
Rather than focusing on the injustices suffered by Japanese Americans, this new musical finds its voice in the characters’ varied responses to discrimination
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‘On Your Feet!’ Broadway Review: Emilio and Gloria Estefan Pay Tribute to Their Own Success
As self-promoting hagiographies go, this new jukebox musical makes “Trump: The Art of the Deal” look modest
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‘King Charles III’ Broadway Review: Princess Di’s a Ghost and Kate’s a Real Witch
Mike Bartlett’s new play about the royal family has a smarmy appeal for theatergoers who’ve never read People magazine
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‘Therese Raquin’ Broadway Review: Keira Knightley Gets Caught Between Tragedy and Grand Guignol in Debut
Not everything goes wrong. As Therese’s lover, Matt Ryan is appropriately studly and manages to produce few laughs despite being stuck with clunky lines
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‘Sylvia’ Broadway Review: Matthew Broderick Must Choose Between Smart Wife or Sexy Talking Pooch
Broderick talks to his dog and his dog talks back to him in revival of 1995 comedy that first starred Sarah Jessica Parker
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‘The Humans’ Theater Review: Send in the Monsters. Don’t Bother They’re Here
Money doesn’t sound as scary as zombies, but the suspense in Stephen Karam’s new play builds right up to the moment that the lights go out
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‘Hasan Minhaj: Homecoming King’ Theater Review: ‘Daily Show’ Star Skips Snark in Benign Comedy
Neither raunchy nor political, this one-man show is the Indian-American Muslim’s answer to Billy Crystal’s “700 Sundays”
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‘Dames at Sea’ Broadway Review: A Spoof of Classic Hollywood Musicals That’s More Numbing Than Fun
Director-choreographer Randy Skinner struggles to inject life into his revival of a nearly 50-year-old musical oddity
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‘First Daughter Suite’ Theater Review: Democrats Will Love It, Nancy Reagan Might Want to Sue
The Public Theater follows its “Hamilton” success with another look at American politics. But here it’s the women who count, from Pat Nixon to Laura Bush
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‘Ripcord’ Theater Review: Felix and Oscar Reborn as Older Women
Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and director David Hyde-Pierce deliver a new odd couple, played by Marylouise Burke and Holland Taylor
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‘The Gin Game’ Broadway Review: James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson Play to Win
Two veteran stars make old age look easy, even in the relic that is D. L. Coburn’s Pulitzer-winning play
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‘Eclipsed’ Theater Review: Lupita Nyong’o Shines in Drama by ‘The Walking Dead’ Star Danai Gurira
Oscar winner impresses not only with her monologues of despair but with those moments of extended silence and joy in actor-playwright Gurira’s new work
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‘Clever Little Lies’ Theater Review: Is Marlo Thomas Really Telling the Awful Truth?
After the raunchiness of “Hand to God” and “Barbecue,” a new comedy about marital infidelity qualifies as simply good, clean fun
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‘Barbecue’ Theater Review: The Intervention Will Be Televised
In his wickedly funny new Off Broadway comedy, playwright Robert O’Hara believes that movie stars and memoirists are a match made in the ninth circle of publicity