Robert Hofler
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‘Privacy’ Theater Review: Daniel Radcliffe Loses His Way Online but Finds Edward Snowden
James Graham’s comedy features so much audience participation that it resembles the entertainment on a cruise ship captained by Franz Kafka
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‘The Taming of the Shrew’ Theater Review: All-Woman Revival in Central Park Sends Up Donald Trump
Under the direction of Phyllida Lloyd, the Public Theater’s production ends up with a lot of small men on stage
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Tony Award Predictions: Can Anything Stop ‘Hamilton’ Juggernaut?
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical and Stephen Karam’s play “The Humans” look to be the big winners, but probably won’t set any records
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‘Paramour’ Broadway Review: There’s Cirque du Soleil Gold Amid Showbiz Dross
The three very uncharismatic leads and their generic tunes wear out their welcome fast. Fortunately, the acrobats and aerialists never do
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‘The Total Bent’ Theater Review: Stew and Heidi Rodewald Deliver a ‘Dreamgirls’ for Men
Most musical-history shows offer up ersatz versions of classics. Stew and Rodewald write classics. Period
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‘Incognito’ Theater Review: Lots of Physics, Not Much Meaning From Nick Payne
Albert Einstein’s brain meets an amnesiac pianist, and as we learn in a jumbled new play, both should just be left alone
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‘Hadestown’ Theater Review: Anais Mitchell Drops Orpheus Into a Postapocalyptic World
The bad guys steal the show from Orpheus and Eurydice, and when they do, you feel like you’ve just stepped onto Bourbon Street
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‘The Judas Kiss’ Theater Review: Oscar Wilde on Trial Again, This Time With Rupert Everett
A brilliant new revival establishes David Hare’s tragedy for what it has always been: one of the great plays of the late 20th Century
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ Theater Review: Gillian Anderson, Ben Foster Take a Trip to Dollywood
Tennessee Williams’ idea of illusion and magic has been reduced to a lot of Maybelline and Aqua Net
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Tony Predictions: It’s All About ‘Hamilton’ and Scott Rudin in Nominations Race
With Rudin’s “Shuffle Along” declared an original musical and likely to be nominated, one B.O.-challenged tuner just lost its best chance for Tony exposure
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‘Dido & Aeneas’ Theater Review: From Broadway to Opera, Kelli O’Hara Does It All
Last year’s Tony winner for “The King and I” takes a break from show tunes to go totally baroque
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‘Shuffle Along’ Broadway Review: George C. Wolfe Delivers His Masterpiece
In a year of corn-pone musicals, “Shuffle Along” exudes elegance and intelligence. It’s big only in its ambitions, theatrical thrills, and the emotions it stirs
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‘Tuck Everlasting’ Broadway Review: Why Immortality Isn’t What It’s Cracked Up to Be
Nothing gives us a better glimpse of eternity than this musical’s lax narrative, generic performances, and endless ballet
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‘American Psycho’ Broadway Review: Bret Easton Ellis’ Serial Killer Gets Songs and a Soul
Benjamin Walker emerges as far more tortured than Christian Bale. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Duncan Sheik’s new musical gives him a soul
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‘Head of Passes’ Theater Review: Phylicia Rashad Confronts God, and He’s Mad as Hell
Job had it easy compared to Tarell Alvin McCraney’s put-upon heroine, who endures not only God’s plague of death but a crumbling set
