Robert Hofler
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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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‘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
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‘Kings’ Theater Review: Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington and Confronts Big, Bad Lobbyists
Sarah Burgess’ dialogue is often scintillating, and would be even more arresting if any of the characters budged from his or her original position
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‘Hangmen’ Theater Review: Martin McDonagh Gleefully Explores the Habit of Murder
After 233 legal murders, a retired executioner finds cause to return to what he does best in McDonagh’s new comedy
