Robert Hofler
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‘Mean Girls’ Broadway Review: Tina Fey’s Nasty Teens Now Sing, Dance and Recycle
Fey’s one-liners are still funny after all these years. But most of the originality comes from Casey Nicholaw’s choreography and direction of a very talented young cast
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‘Three Tall Women’ Broadway Review: Glenda Jackson Charges Into the Night
Laurie Metcalf and Alison Pill also tower in the first Broadway revival of Edward Albee’s masterpiece
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‘Yerma’ Theater Review: Federico Garcia Lorca Wouldn’t Recognize This Adaptation – or Claim It
The Young Vic’s freewheeling adaptation starring Billie Piper updates the story to contemporary London. Yerma is now called Her, which is the least of Her problems
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‘Lobby Hero’ Broadway Review: Chris Evans and Michael Cera Compare Their Guns
Sometimes movie stars make the segue to Broadway in high style
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‘Angels in America’ Broadway Review: Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane Battle for Life
Marianne Elliott puts the fantasy front and center in her National Theatre staging of Tony Kushner’s marathon drama
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‘Frozen’ Broadway Review: Disney’s Animated Hit Becomes Major Snow Job
Patti Murin and Jelani Alladin occasionally unthaw a rather frigid show
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‘Escape to Margaritaville’ Broadway Review: Jimmy Buffett Kicks Back a Few Too Many
A new musical takes its cue from Buffett’s odes to gluttony “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?”
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‘Admissions’ Theater Review: Joshua Harmon’s Comedy Dissects One Family’s Yale-or-Bust Insanity
In Harmon’s insightful new comedy, it’s the parents who may never recover from their child’s rejection
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‘Good for Otto’ Theater Review: Ed Harris and Amy Madigan Are Stranded in Podunkville
Various troubled souls stumbled into a mental health clinic in David Rabe’s purely cornball new drama
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‘The Low Road’ Theater Review: Bruce Norris Aims High to Bring Down the Rich
The playwright delivers an uproarious indictment of power, privilege and totally deregulated capitalism
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‘Queens’ Theater Review: A Harrowing Look at Immigrant Women Trapped in America
In Martyna Majok’s new play, poor women from around the world encounter a war zone in a shared basement living space in Queens, N.Y.
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‘Amy and the Orphans’ Theater Review: ‘American Horror Story’ Star Jamie Brewer Steals the Spotlight
Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play recalls ’60s-era Neil Simon comedies — but she has a dramatic bomb up her sleeve
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‘The Amateurs’ Theater Review: Jordan Harrison’s New Comedy Upends Conventions
The “Marjorie Prime” playwright explodes the fourth wall in a wild, new look back at Noah and the ark
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‘An Ordinary Muslim’ Theater Review: Hammaad Chaudry Is No Ordinary Playwright
Chaudry’s riveting portrait of a Pakistani-Brit vividly recalls some of the angry young men of 1950s British theater: He’s railing against everything and everyone, including himself
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‘Jerry Springer – The Opera’ Theater Review: An Inept Descent Into Daytime-TV Hell
The musical never makes us feel complicit with the Springer TV audience. The talk-show host’s low-life, stupid, morbidly obese guests are there on stage simply to be mocked