Theater Best Of The 2010s

THE BEST THEATER OF THE 2010s


Akhnaten (2019 dress rehearsal of ENO at Met)
All's Well That Ends Well (2011 at Shakespeare's Globe in London)
As You Like It (Lily Rabe for Shakespeare In The Park, 2012)
The Band's Visit (Off Bway at Atlantic or on Bway)
Boy (w Bobby Steggert)
The Divine Sister (2011, w Charles Busch)
A Doll's House, Part 2
Einstein On The Beach (2012 at BAM)
Giant (2012 Public w Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert)
Guys and Dolls (one night only Carnegie Hall w Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Patrick Wilson)
Hadestown (2016 at NYTW)
Hamilton
Happy Days (w Dianne Wiest at BAM)
The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church (Daniel Kitson 2011 at St. Ann's)
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later (2012 Daniel Kitson)
Julius Caesar (2013 revival at St. Ann's, all women w Harriet Walter)
Lypsinka! The Boxed Set
The Merchant Of Venice (2010 Bway w Al Pacino and Lily Rabe)
My Name Is Asher Lev (2012, w Ari Brand)
Nellie McKay at Joe's Pub (Joan Rivers bio-musical)
An Octoroon (Soho Rep 2014)
The Old Man and the Old Moon (PigPen Theater, 2012)
Once (2012 Bway)
Parsifal (2013, at the Met)
Satyagraha (2011 ENO revival at Met)
The Scottsboro Boys (2010 Bway)
Sense and Sensibility (Bedlam, 2014)
A Show For Christmas (Daniel Kitson, 2015)
Shuffle Along
Sleep No More (Punch Drunk immersive Macbeth at McKittrick Hotel)
Sons Of The Prophet (2011 Off bway w Santino Fontana)
Spring Awakening (2015 Bway revival by Deaf Theatre West)
Sunday In The Park With George (Bway w Jake Gyllenhaal in 2017)
Travesties (Bway 2018 w Tom Hollander)
Tribes (w Mare Winningham)
Twelfth Night (2013 Bway, all male cast w Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett)
When Father Comes Home From The Wars, Parts 1, 2, and 3




ALL SHOWS RATED A PERFECT FOUR STARS

**** shows (nine in all, less than one a year)

All's Well That Ends Well (2011 at Shakespeare's Globe in London)
As You Like It (Lily Rabe for Shakespeare In The Park, 2012)
Boy (w Bobby Steggert)
Einstein On The Beach (2012 at BAM)
Julius Caesar (2013 revival at St. Ann's, all women w Harriet Walter)
Lypsinka! The Boxed Set
Once (2012 Bway)
Satyagraha (2011 ENO revival at Met)
Sunday In The Park With George (Bway w Jake Gyllenhaal in 2017)


ALL SHOWS RATED 3 1/2 STARS

*** 1/2 shows (88 in all, or about eight a year)

A Doll's House, Part 2
Ain't No Mo (at Public)
Akhnaten (2019 dress rehearsal of ENO at Met)
Allegro (CSC revival)
Arcadia (2011 revival w Billy Crudup, again)
The Band's Visit (Off Bway at Atlantic or on Bway)
Bend In The Road (Anne of Green Gables musical at NYMF, 2013)
Betrayal
Blanche, The Bittersweet Life of A Prairie Dame (2011 NYMF)
Bob (show about Robert Wilson)
The Book Of Mormon
Catch Me If You Can (Bway w Aaron Tveit)
The Children (Bway)
Clybourne Park
The Crucible (by Bedlam)
The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time (Bway)
Derren Brown: Secret
The Divine Sister (2011, w Charles Busch)
Familiar
The Ferryman
Follies (Bway 2011 w Bernadette Peters)
The Fortress Of Solitude (musical at Public)
Forty Part Motet: Janet Cardiff Installation at PS1)
Frog Kiss (2010 NYMF)
A Gentleman's Guide To Love & Murder (Bway)
Germinal (Public UTR Festival)
Ghost Quartet
Giant (2012 Public w Kate Baldwin, Bobby Steggert)
The Glass Menagerie (Bway w Sally Field)
Guys and Dolls (one night only Carnegie Hall w Nathan Lane, Megan Mullally, Patrick Wilson)
Hadestown (off bway)
Hamilton
Happy Days (w Dianne Wiest)
The Heir Apparent (David Ives at CSC)
Heisenberg (w Mary-Louise Parker)
Here Lies Love (at Public)
The Humans (Bway)
The Hurrican Katrina Comedy Festival (2011 FringeFest NYC)
Independents (2012, FringeNYC)
The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church (Daniel Kitson 2011 at St. Ann's)
It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later (2012 Daniel Kitson)
King Charles III
Leonard Cohen Koans (NYC Fringe Fest 2011)
The Liar
Matilda The Musical (Bway)
The Merchant Of Venice (2010 Bway w Al Pacino and Lily Rabe)
Les Miserables (Bway 2014)
The Mountain Song (2011 PigPen)
Mouse: The Persistence Of An Unlikely Thought (Daniel Kitson, 2016)
Mrs. Murray's Menagerie
My Name Is Asher Lev (2012, w Ari Brand)
Nellie McKay at Joe's Pub (Joan Rivers bio-musical)
The Nightmare Story (2011 PigPen)
Nixon In China (2011 revival at the Met)
Octet (at Signature)
An Octoroon (Soho Rep 2014)
The Old Man and the Old Moon (PigPen Theatre)
The Orphans' Home Cycle (2011 mounting at Signature)
The Painted Rocks At Revolver Creek (Signature revival)
Parsifal (2013, at the Met)
Passion (2013 revival at CSC)
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Piano Lesson (2012 revival at Signature)
Porgy & Bess (2012 w Audra McDonald)
A Raisin In The Sun (Bway 2014 w Denzel Washington)
The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner (2013)
The School For Lies (2011 revival at CSC by David Ives, w Mamie Gummer)
The Scottsboro Boys (2010 Bway)
Sense and Sensbility (Bedlam, 2014)
Septimus & Clarissa (2011)
A Show For Christmas (Daniel Kitson, 2015)
Shuffle Along (Bway)
Sleep No More (Punch Drunk immersive Macbeth at McKittrick Hotel)
Sons Of The Prophet (2011 Off bway w Santino Fontana)
Spring Awakening (2015 Bway revival by Deaf Theatre West)
STePz (Savion Glover dance piece)
Strictly Dishonorable (1929 Preston Sturges play)
Three Sisters (2011 revival at CSC w Maggie Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard)
Travesties (Bway 2018 w Tom Holland)
Tribes (w Mare Winningham)
Twelfth Night (2013 Bway, all male cast w Mark Rylance, Samuel Barnett)
The Twentieth Century Way (2010 NYC FringeFest w Tom Jacobson)
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
Volleygirls (2013 NYMF)
The Weir (2013 revival at Irish Rep)
What You Will (Or Twelfth Night) by Bedlam
When Father Comes Home From The Wars, Parts 1, 2, and 3
Without You (2010 NYMF Anthony Rapp)