Robert Hofler
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‘Monsoon Wedding’ Off Broadway Review: Mira Nair Brings Her Movie to the Stage
The reluctant bride and groom now sing but don’t generate much heat
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‘Prima Facie’ Broadway Review: Jodie Comer Turns Theater Into Sport
The “Killing Eve” star brings her Olivier Award-winning performance about a rape victim to the States
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‘Life of Pi’ Broadway Review: Making Cannibalism Palatable for Kids
Unfortunately, the puppets look like “The Lion King” on a budget
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‘Sweeney Todd’ Broadway Review: Josh Groban Delivers a Kinder Serial Killer
And he sings very sweetly while slitting all those throats
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‘Bob Fosse’s Dancin” Broadway Review: The Legend’s Back – but How Much of Him Do We Get?
Wayne Cilento, an original cast member, reshapes this 1978 dance show
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‘Becky Nurse of Salem’ Off Broadway Review: ‘The Crucible’ Collides With ‘Hocus Pocus’
Arthur Miller and Marilyn Monroe take the blame in Sarah Ruhl’s new play
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‘Leopoldstadt’ Broadway Review: Tom Stoppard Remembers the Holocaust in Vivid Detail
With a cast of 38 actors, the playwright covers over half a century of anti-Semitism in Old Vienna
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‘Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge’ Off Broadway Review: The Great Debate Loses Some of Its Bite
James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr. continue to argue about dreams and race in America
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‘American (Tele)visions’ Off Broadway Review: Why the Tube Is Bad for Our Health
Victor I. Cazares’s new play makes a habit of repeating the obvious
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‘This Beautiful Future’ Off Broadway Review: Karaoke Perks Up a Doomed WWII-Era Love Story
Rita Kalnejais imagines a sappy alternate reality for a Nazi soldier and his French traitor girlfriend
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‘The Kite Runner’ Broadway Review: Khaled Hosseini’s Bestseller Fails to Take Flight
Hosseini’s novel became a movie and then, in its weakest incarnation, a play by Matthew Spangler
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‘Epiphany’ Off Broadway Review: James Joyce Gets a Radical and Hilarious Update
Brian Watkins’ new play begins in broad comedy and ends in a place the writer of “The Dead” would recognize
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‘Corsicana’ Off Broadway Review: Will Arbery’s New Play Gets Lost in Words
New Tony winner Deirdre O’Connell and “American Horror Story” alum Jamie Brewer are stuck in a tell-don’t-show drama
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‘Soft’ Off Broadway Review: Donja R. Love’s Tough New Play Redefines Masculinity
Biko Eisen-Martin plays a teacher in a correctional facility for teenagers