Robert Hofler
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‘Colin Quinn: Red State Blue State’ Theater Review: How Not to Pick Sides in 2019
The stand-up comic’s latest show will offend no one. And that’s a problem
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‘Trick or Treat’ Theater Review: Everything Bad Happens on Halloween
Jack Neary’s new play is a little like watching “Arsenic and Old Lace”… if the old aunts had Alzheimer’s and wore Depends
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‘Choir Boy’ Broadway Review: ‘Moonlight’ Writer Looks at a Young Gay Black Man With ‘Swish’
Tarell Alvin McCraney makes an exhilirating Broadway debut
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‘Blue Ridge’ Theater Review: Smart, Angry and Trapped in a North Carolina Recovery Center
Marin Ireland finds no escape from herself in Abby Rosebrock’s fine new play
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10 Worst Theater Productions of 2018, From Jimmy Buffett to ‘King Kong’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Only in retrospect do the year’s biggest misfires bring smiles to a theatergoer’s face
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10 Best Theater Productions of 2018, From ‘Ferryman’ to ‘Bernhardt/Hamlet’ (Photos)
TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2018: Visionary directors delivered amazing revivals of “My Fair Lady,” “Oklahoma!” and “Three Tall Women,” but great new plays dominated this year
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‘Network’ Broadway Review: Bryan Cranston Conjures a Burnt-Out Bill O’Reilly
Director Ivo van Hove’s kinetic, immersive production dominates until Paddy Chayevsky’s moralizing takes over in the show’s second half
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‘The Cher Show’ Broadway Review: Stephanie J Block Is Strong Enough to Be the Real Star
The new musical recycles all the originality and wit of old network TV
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‘The Hard Problem’ Theater Review: Tom Stoppard Is Soft on Brain Science
A true believer does battle with the true scientists in a surprisingly sentimental play starring Jon Tenney and Adelaide Clemens
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‘Downstairs’ Theater Review: Tyne Daly and Tim Daly Play Siblings Plagued With Demons Past and Present
Theresa Rebeck writes a surprise thriller
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‘The Prom’ Broadway Review: Indiana’s Back on the LGBT Chopping Block
Four ham actors take on a bunch of homophobes in the Midwest. It’s not sure who wins
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‘Wild Goose Dreams’ Theater Review: When Computers Upstage a North Korean Defector
Hansol Jung’s new play says it’s tough to get personal in a world filled with machines. Her computer chorus, however, tells us something else
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‘The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui’ Theater Review: Raul Esparza Sends Up Hitler in the Age of Trump
Even Charlie Chaplin wasn’t this good at mocking Adolf Hitler
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‘King Kong’ Broadway Review: Giant Puppet Upstages the Mere Humans
Broadway’s biggest animatronic leading man somehow survives an inept book by John Thorne, who gave us “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child”
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‘Torch Song’ Theater Review: Harvey Fierstein Passes It to Michael Urie
In the original, Fierstein’s outrageousness got you through the play’s lumpy soap opera moments. Urie, in the revival, works the suds