Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011

[willep]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011#1

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

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

[sergio_27]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #2

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

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

[willep]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #2

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #3

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #4

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.

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[South Fl Marc]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #5

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #6

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #7

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #8

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]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #9

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

At least FOLLIES was on his list

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[ACL2006]

Ben Brantley's Top 10 Shows of 2011 #10

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)

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.