This is a very hard question. I saw 150 shows during the calendar year, and enjoyed many of them. It truly was a great year for the artform. But if I had to single out ten, they would be:
100 Saints You Should Know [Off Broadway-Playwrights Horizons-Mainstage]
August: Osage County [Broadway-Imperial Theatre]
Blackbird [Off Broadway-Manhattan Theatre Club-City Center Stage I]
Follies [Off Broadway-City Center Encores]
Gypsy [Off Broadway-City Center Encores-Summer Stars]
Journey's End [Broadway-Belasco Theatre]
A Midsummer Night's Dream [Off Broadway-New York Shakespeare Festival-Delacorte Theatre]
The Misanthrope [Off Broadway-New York Theatre Workshop]
Richard III [Off Broadway-Classic Stage Company]
Rock 'N' Roll [Broadway-Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre]
And, for good measure, five honorable mentions:
110 in the Shade [Broadway-Roundabout Theatre Company-Studio 54]
Essential Self-Defense [Off Broadway-Playwrights Horizons-Peter Jay Sharp Theatre]
The Glorious Ones [Off Broadway-Lincoln Center-Mitzi E. Newhouse Theatre]
The Homecoming [Broadway-Cort Theatre]
Translations [Broadway-Manhattan Theatre Club-Biltmore Theatre]
"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
Updated On: 12/22/07 at 09:23 AM
Details!
