Best of 2013 Theater Lists

[Borstalboy]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#1

Posted: 12/5/13 at 10:23am

It's that time of the year...
Best Plays/Musicals of 2013--Time Magazine

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[Play Esq.]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#2

Posted: 12/5/13 at 10:47am

Not a bad list. I wouldn't personally have put Matilda that high (or on the list at all...) but nice diverse choices.

[Kad]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#2

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:01am

Far better than their list last year, which ignored off-Broadway and non-musicals in general.

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[AC126748]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#3

Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:47am

I was a bit surprised with some of the choices, not because they're unmerited, but because Zoglin tends to have conservative tastes.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[TheGingerBreadMan]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#4

Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:15pm

No KINKY BOOTS? F*** that.

[mybigsplash]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#5

Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:42pm

I would have put Marin Ireland in MARIE ANTONETTE on the list. Was certainly the theatrical event of the season for me. The night I went Jakes Gyllenhaal and Jeff Goldblum were on the list, and was sold out several extensions.

Stephen: "Could you grab me a coffee?" Me: "Would you like that with all the colors of the wind?"

[gstrus2]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#6

Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:48pm

I'm suprised Fun Home is not on the list. Seeing it for second time on Sunday.

[VotePeron]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#7

Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:54pm

Glad Matilda is top! FUN HOME should be on there, though.

[macnyc]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#8

Posted: 12/5/13 at 1:05pm

Belleville? Really? That's going to be on my personal "worst" list for 2013. And no Fun Home? Macbeth over Twelfth Night? The mind reels.



Updated On: 12/5/13 at 01:05 PM

[ClydeBarrow]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#9

Posted: 12/5/13 at 1:13pm

That would definitely not be my list. MACBETH was beyond overrated.

"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

[VernonGersch]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#10

Posted: 12/5/13 at 3:59pm

I would have added KINKY BOOTS to the list....not that I was in NYC all that much this past year - only twice - but still

[ClydeBarrow]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#11

Posted: 12/5/13 at 4:07pm

Lucky for us we can tell when you were in NYC, Vernon. I'm going to be blocking people that feel the need to have the world's longest signatures of every show they've seen/will see. No one cares and I don't like having to scroll past the nonsense.

"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah

[Sauja]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#12

Posted: 12/5/13 at 5:17pm

Because I love making lists, mine would be: 1. Fun Home; 2. Ganesh Versus the Third Reich (Under the Radar); 3. Matilda; 4. Violet at Encores; 5. Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play; 6. The Good Person of Szechwan; 7. Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; 8. Belleville; 9. Buyer and Cellar; 10. Hands on a Hardbody

With The Flick, Twelfth Night, Marie Antoinette, Pippin, The Testament of Mary, Old Hats, Encores' It's a Bird...It's a Plane, Rantoul and Die, The Castle, and the 200 person Tempest running VERY close behind. It was a really good year, and I saw A LOT. As much as I could go back and forth on these a lot. But Fun Home would absolutely stay in the top slot. I was floored by it. Completely.

[macnyc]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#13

Posted: 12/5/13 at 5:44pm

Sauja, why don't you start a new thread where we can post our Top 10 lists? I would also like to post my Bottom 10 list. (No cracks, please!)

[Borstalboy]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#14

Posted: 12/5/13 at 6:29pm

BTW, the thread title is ListS, plural. If you see any others, do post!

"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.” ~ Muhammad Ali

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#15

Posted: 12/6/13 at 11:53am

Well, I just got this weeks issue of Entertainment Weekly in the mail and I guess they're no longer listing the top ten theater productions of the year in their annual Top Ten issue. Disappointing. Updated On: 12/6/13 at 11:53 AM

[SidebySidebyLogan]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#16

Posted: 12/7/13 at 2:06am

I find it odd Entertainment Weekly didn't include theater productions as they've covered more theater this year than ever before, and even had an editorial piece earlier in the year about their efforts to better cover theater, literature, and tech in addition to the tv, movie, music coverage they're known for. I haven't looked at the most recent issue but it sucks if they are slumping theater coverage right here at the end of the line.

[RippedMan]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#17

Posted: 12/7/13 at 2:52am

Thought it was disappointing as well, but oh well.

And I'd love to know all the twists in Bellville that the critics didn't seem to understand?

[Unknown User]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#18

Posted: 12/9/13 at 10:53am

New York Magazine just released their Best of list.

http://nymag.com/arts/cultureawards/2013/top-10-plays/

[GilmoreGirlO2]

Best of 2013 Theater Lists#19

Posted: 12/9/13 at 11:25am

ETA: Whoops, wrong thread! Updated On: 12/10/13 at 11:25 AM