Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011

[willep]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 2:25pm

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/18/theater/20111218-brantley.html

[sergio_27]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 2:49pm

Eight plays and only two musicals (and one of them is a revival).

[willep]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 3:41pm

And Isherwood's picks...even fewer musicals (I don't think any of them are musicals, actually...)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/18/theater/20111218-isherwood.html?src=tp

[americanboy99]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 3:50pm

HA!

BENGAL TIGER on Isherwood's list? Lord...

OTHER DESERT CITIES is quite overrated in my opinion as well. I'd put SISTER ACT on my list, to be quite honest. And possible ANYTHING GOES as well.

[GlindatheGood22]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 4:05pm

Very glad Isherwood said Sons of the Prophet, but confused as to the absence of The Normal Heart on his list. They were both some of the best things I've ever seen.

[South Fl Marc]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 4:34pm

Brantley is spot on. It's too bad the great plays don't survive while certain crap musicals flourish. It just shows how dumb broadway audiences have become

[CleveNMLActor]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 5:31pm

Not just how dumb Broadway audiences have become, but how dumb American theater goers have become as a whole!

[rougeduck]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 6:39pm

I expected Starcatcher to be on Brantley's list. That praise-filled review was one of his best written in the last year.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 12/14/11 at 9:01pm

Whileit's absolutely gotten worse, there's been a long history of many of the greatest Broadway plays not running past a year...

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 8:00am

At least FOLLIES was on his list

[ACL2006]

Posted: 12/15/11 at 10:30pm

Entertainment Weekly's Top 10:

1. The Book of Mormon
2. Sleep No More(off-Broadway)
3. Other Desert Cities
4. Anything Goes
5. Blood & Gifts(off-Broadway)
6. Three Sisters(off-Broadway)/Uncle Vanya(D.C.)
7. Follies
8. War Horse
9. Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
10. The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to....(off-Broadway)