The Best Theater of 2024: Shows that Ruled the Year
Which Broadway (and off-Broadway) shows were the best of 2024? Find out!
As 2024 comes to a close, New York City's top theatre critics have been taking stock of this theatre season- deciding on their personal choices for their favorite productions of the year. The season has been full of so many stellar plays, musicals, revivals and new works, both on Broadway and off.
Be sure to check back later for new additions as they're released!
Note: Some lists include productions that were performed regionally.
New York Times
Jesse Green:
Appropriate
Terce: A Practical Breviary
Dead Outlaw
Mary Jane
Illinoise
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Oh, Mary!
The Hills of California
Our Town
Maybe Happy Ending
Laura Collins-Hughes:
Dead Outlaw
Maya Phillips:
Ragtime
One Upon a Mattress
Alexis Soloski:
Swept Away
Romeo + Juliet
Michael Paulson:
The Outsiders
Elisabeth Vincentelli:
Sunset Blvd
The Hills of California
Scott Heller:
Mary Jane
Vulture
Sara Holdren:
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
Terce: A Practical Breviary
Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!
We Are Your Robots
The Wind and the Rain
Grief Hotel
The Following Evening
The Marriage of Figaro
Illinoise
On Set With Theda Bara
Jackson McHenry:
Oh, Mary!
Dead Outlaw
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Jelly’s Last Jam
you don’t have to do anything
Usus
Maybe Happy Ending
Jonah
An Enemy of the People (as interrupted by Extinction Rebellion)
Yellow Face
Wall Street Journal
Charles Isherwood:
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Sunset Blvd.
Maybe Happy Ending
Here There Are Blueberries
Our Class
Little Bear Ridge Road
Macbeth
An Enemy of the People
Prayer for the French Republic
Mary Jane
Brooklyn Laundry
Philadelphia, Here I Come!
The New Yorker
Helen Shaw:
Terce: A Practical Breviary
Oh, Mary!
1-800-3592-113592
Mary Jane
Usus
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
Gatz
Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
Death Becomes Her
Gypsy
USA Today
Patrick Ryan:
Oh, Mary!
Maybe Happy Ending
Gypsy
Illinoise
Mary Jane
Sunset Boulevard
An Enemy of the People
Death Becomes Her
The Heart of Rock and Roll
Cult of Love
Slant
Dan Rubins:
Counting and Cracking
Dead Outlaw
Days of Wine and Roses
Grief Hotel
The Hills of California
It’s Not What It Looks Like
Mary Jane
Maybe Happy Ending
Once Upon a Mattress
Pericles
Ragtime
Terce: A Practical Breviary
Deadline
Greg Evans:
Oh, Mary!
Maybe Happy Ending
Death Becomes Her
Eureka Day
Sunset Blvd.
Swept Away
Gypsy
The Hills of California
McNeal
Washington Post
Naveen Kumar:
The Comeuppance
Oh, Mary!
Hamlet … The Rest Is Silence
Maybe Happy Ending
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
The Art of Care
Mary Jane
Suffs
Romeo & Juliet
The 22+ Weddings of Hugo
LA Times
Charles McNulty:
The Birthday Party: A Theatrical Catastrophe
The Brothers Size
Company
Fat Ham
Fatherland
Funny Girl
Henry 6
Kimberly Akimbo
Pacific Overtures
Primary Trust
Waiting for Godot
Toronto Globe and Mail
J. Kelly Nestruck and Aisling Murphy
Dana H.
The Inheritance
Women of the Fur Trade
Age Is a Feeling
One Man, Two Guvnors
Salesman in China
Life of Pi
Wonderful Joe
I Was Unbecoming Then
Big Stuff
TimeOut London
Andrzej Lukowski:
Machinal
The Cherry Orchard
Oedipus
Mnemonic
The Years
Viola’s Room
The Hills of California
Or What’s Left of Us
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Giant
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Bear Snores On
The Guardian
Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship:
The Years
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Lonely Londoners
Rewind
Hadestown
Oedipus
Punch
Pinocchio
Please Right Back
The Hollywood Reporter
Lovia Gyarkye:
An Enemy of the People
Gatz
Invasive Species
Oh, Mary!
Entertainment Weekly
Stereophonic
Maybe Happy Ending
The Outsiders
Oh, Mary!
Hell's Kitchen
Sunset Blvd.
An Enemy of the People
Swept Away
Our Town
The Notebook
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HuffPost
Candice Frederick:
The Wiz
Mother Play
The Hills of California
Once Upon a Mattress
Maybe Happy Ending
Prayer for the French Republic
Doub
Hell’s Kitchen
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