The best PLAY youve ever seen

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:22pm

What is the best Broadway play (no music) that youve ever seen? You can post the worst also.

[Matt_G]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:23pm

SIDE MAN
THE BEAUTY QUEEN OF LEENANE
OUR TOWN (Hal Holbrook)

Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:23 PM

[M J R]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:23pm

Among the best I've seen - "The Cider House Rules" in LA

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:24pm

I don't have too many to choose from, but The Normal Heart certainly deserves mention.

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:27pm

Tons of choices from over the years (HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, MASTER HAROLD, THE REAL THING JOE TURNER, AMADEUS), but the original production of ANGELS IN AMERICA blew me away like nothing else I've ever seen.

Updated On: 7/30/04 at 10:27 PM

[SammyGal]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:28pm

The Normal Heart.
Hands Down.

[M J R]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:30pm

Oh definitely Angels in America.....

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:34pm

I thought THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW and SIXTEEN WOUNDED were amazingly profound new dramas this year and were 100% overlooked.

FROZEN and I AM MY OWN WIFE were the highlights of this years exquisite offering of dramas. They were PACKED with truly powerhouse performances. Just phenomenal.

[ItSucks2BAveQ]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:35pm

ANGELS IN AMERICA AND ITS "SEQUEL" WERE UNBEATABLY ASTOUNDING.

[M J R]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:37pm

Not to generalize, but I'm so happy to see someone with the word WICKED in their screenname talk about something like this!

[Paul LW]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:37pm

The House of Blue Leaves

And..

The Cripple of Inishmaan ---> such a brilliant dark, irish, comedy. SO GOOD!

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pm

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY

Thrilling theatrical experience.

[mominator]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:39pm

Golda's Balcony

[ItSucks2BAveQ]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:40pm

MJR- Yes. The Wicked fans (otherwise known as the children of the corn) talk about things other than Wicked itself. Shocking.

[M J R]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:42pm

* bows head

[bta212]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 10:58pm

"Streetcar" Glenn Close in London,
"Blown Sideways Through Life"
"Torch Song"
"Night Mother"
Any Charles Ludlam Theatre of the Ridiculous

[TheNPH]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:14pm

Proof

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:43pm

AMADEUS
BENT
THE ELEPHANT MAN
OTHELLO (Jones and Plummer)

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:46pm

Unfortunately, I haven't seen many fine productions of plays (since they're usually priced the same as musicals, and given a choice, I'd take the musical), but THE NORMAL HEART shook my emotional core like no other show ever has.

[judy_in_disguise]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pm

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf at the Stratford Festival.

[Mamie]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:52pm

The Invention of Love
Proof
W;t

Off-Broadway:
The Guys
Talking Heads

[Unknown User]

Posted: 7/30/04 at 11:55pm

Miami Production of "Death of a Salesman" with Hal Holbrook as Willie Loman 1995
London - "Run for Your Wife" - Mid-1980's Perfect British Farce! by Ray Cooney...The play is so funny that even a group of terrible amateurs I saw a few years age made it work.
London - "Stepping Out" Funny poignant...brillianly performed.. died crossing the pond and in Lisa Minelli film version.
New York - "Side Man"
"Proof".....both these plays are thought provoking, powerful yet easily understood.
Ask me tomorrow and the list will probably change....
Worst? "Copenhagen" Huh? ..Nothing like a night of physics and hopscotch.
Could be even worse? When Disney produces a non-musical....Did anyone see that plastic, awful, pablumed down version of "The Miracle Worker" on TV a few years back?

[Qfan]

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:23am

I've said it before and I'll say it until i die : "I am My own wife" is a play at its best with great drama and great humor with a perfect performance.

[POLisPOL]

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:32am

Noises off!!!!! I laughed all the show long!

[johny0828]

Posted: 7/31/04 at 12:38am

lost in yonkers