Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#1Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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
#2Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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.
#2Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:01amFar 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."
#3Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 11:47amI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#5Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:42pmI 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?"
#6Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:48pmI'm suprised Fun Home is not on the list. Seeing it for second time on Sunday.
VotePeron
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/2/13
#7Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 12:54pmGlad Matilda is top! FUN HOME should be on there, though.
#8Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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
#9Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 1:13pmThat 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
#10Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 3:59pmI would have added KINKY BOOTS to the list....not that I was in NYC all that much this past year - only twice - but still
#11Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 4:07pmLucky 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
#12Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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.
#13Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 5:44pmSauja, 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#14Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/5/13 at 6:29pmBTW, 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
#15Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/6/13 at 11:53amWell, 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
#16Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/7/13 at 2:06amI 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/14/05
#17Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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?
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#18Best of 2013 Theater Lists
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#19Best of 2013 Theater Lists
Posted: 12/9/13 at 11:25amETA: Whoops, wrong thread! Updated On: 12/10/13 at 11:25 AM
