Robert Hofler
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‘Bright Star’ Broadway Review: Steve Martin, Edie Brickell Write a TCM-Inspired Musical
Elements from such unwed-mother movie classics as “A Summer Place,” “To Each His Own,” and “Way Down East” are set to bluegrass score
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‘Dry Powder’ Theater Review: Claire Danes, John Krasinski Level Low Blows Over High Finance
Krasinski is far more relaxed on stage than Danes, which leads to a peculiar sexist subtext to Sarah Burgess’ financial drama at the Public Theater
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‘The Effect’ Theater Review: A Playwright Takes a Page From Tom Cruise
David Cromer builds the suspense up to an eerie sex scene in Lucy Prebble’s new thriller. What will Act 2 bring? It’s not what you expect, unfortunately
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‘She Loves Me’ Broadway Review: Zachary Levi, Laura Benanti Channel Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan in Song
A fine new revival is as sweet and sugary as its most famous tune, but never loses touch with the characters’ pain and heartbreak
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‘Hold on to Me Darling’ Theater Review: Timothy Olyphant’s Fake Tears Make for Real Laughs
Kenneth Lonergan’s new comedy looks at the Nashville/Hollywood axis and a monster it has spawned
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‘Southern Comfort’ Theater Review: Transgender Men and Women Sing About Falling in Love
Kate Davis’ 2001 documentary about a transgender man is now a musical. The songs aren’t as didactic as “I Am What I Am,” but a few anthems come close
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‘The Robber Bridegroom’ Theater Review: Steven Pasquale Soars But Show Is More ‘Hee-Haw’ Than Southern
Pasquale brings his easy, natural charm to the stage, while the rest of the cast gets lost in the sticks of Ma and Pa Kettle
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‘Blackbird’ Broadway Review: Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams at Odds in Many Different Ways
Daniels reprises a great performance. Williams is mannered to the point of distraction
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‘Disaster!’ Broadway Review: ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ With Songs and Fewer Laughs
Occasionally a performer breaks through the ice of mediocrity to showcase real comic chops in this jukebox musical homage to the 1970s
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‘The Royale’ Theater Review: Jack Johnson Lives to Fight Again Despite Doubts
Marco Ramirez’s play depicts a thinly fictionalized version of the pioneering black boxer from the early 20th century, taking us inside the athletes’ heads
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‘Heathers: The Musical’ Theater Review: Singing and Killing People All the Way to the Prom
Imagine the wound-up, overly fraught Ida Lupino trying to play a distressed teenager, and you have Barrett Wilbert Weed’s Veronica. At age 16, Winona Ryder never went there.
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‘Breathing Time’ Theater Review: Beau Willimon Enters Mamet Territory
Willimon is especially good at having one of his characters drop a little bomb of information that takes the audience completely by surprise
