Robert Hofler
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Tony Awards Predictions 2018: Prizes Cometh for Denzel Washington, ‘Harry Potter’ and Tina Fey
Famous writer of “Mean Girls” may even bump Best Book of a Musical category to rare primetime berth
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‘The Boys in the Band’ Broadway Review: Jim Parsons Hosts the Nastiest Birthday Party Ever
“Big Bang Theory” star brings his genial persona to a zinger-filled night that also features Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer and Andrew Rannells
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‘Dance Nation’ Theater Review: Why No One Ever Really Escapes Adolescence
Clare Barron’s quirky new play treats young girls like women and the boy among them like a prop
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‘Summer and Smoke’ Theater Review: Tennessee Williams Sets Off Sparks Among the Dross
Marin Ireland and Nathan Darrow sizzle, but some crude plot mechanics keep this rarity from entering the Williams pantheon of great plays
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Tony Award Nomination Predictions 2018: From ‘Harry Potter’ to Denzel Washington in ‘Iceman Cometh’
Nathan Lane leads the competitive race Best Featured Actor race, but in other categories it’s sometimes enough just to have opened on Broadway this season
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‘The Iceman Cometh’ Broadway Review: Denzel Washington Is on a Mission
His Hickey is a fired-up evangelist set loose among an expressionistic freak show in George C. Wolfe’s revelatory staging of the O’Neill classic
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‘Saint Joan’ Broadway Review: Condola Rashad Burns Up the Stage
The actress is joined by a troupe of men who also know how to play the play’s many contradictions
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‘Summer’ Broadway Review: It’s Winter for Queen of Disco Donna Summer
It’s not much of creative trajectory that takes Donna Summer from “Love to Love You, Baby” to “Hot Stuff”
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‘Harry Potter and the Cursed Child’ Broadway Review: JK Rowling’s Wizards in a Father-Son Battle
John Thorne’s two-part “Cursed Child” play is great children’s theater that in no way attempts to replicate the movies visually
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‘My Fair Lady’ Broadway Review: Lauren Ambrose Would Even Wow George Bernard Shaw
Norbert Leo Butz and Diana Rigg are luxury casting in supporting roles, and Harry Hadden-Paton stages an emotional meltdown as Henry Higgins
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‘Mlima’s Tale’ Theater Review: Lynn Nottage’s Story of the Real Elephant Man
Nottage is much better at anthropomorphizing her lead elephant than any of the human characters
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‘Carousel’ Broadway Review: A Classic Show Gets the Classic Production It Deserves
The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical receives the star treatment under Jack O’Brien’s superb direction
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‘Children of a Lesser God’ Theater Review: Joshua Jackson Must Speak for Two in Broadway Debut
Mark Medoff’s Tony-winning play returns to find itself rocked by the #MeToo movement
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‘Miss You Like Hell’ Theater Review: A Road Trip That Runs on High-Octane Music
Daphne Rubin-Vega brings her hyper-intensity to an engaging, and ultimately heartbreaking, new musical
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‘This Flat Earth’ Theater Review: Gun Violence in Schools Takes Center Stage
After the recent success of her play “Amy and the Orphans,” Lindsey Ferrentino follows up with a muddled drama set in the aftermath of “another” school shooting