Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Back in the Groove

The new year has rung in and as you can see I have not created my new website.  For the time being I shall soldier on here.

Best Plays of 2015

David Hare's "Skylight" on Broadway
Bedlam's "Twelfth Night" and "What You Will"
Branden Jacob-Jenkins's "An Octoroon" at Theatre for a New City
Anne Washburn's "10 out of 12"at The Soho Rep
Annie Baker's "The Flick" at The Barrow Street Theatre
Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" on Broadway
Brecht's Mother "Mother Courage" at CSC with Tonya Pinkins
RSC's "Wolf Hall" on Broadway
Nick Payne's "Constellations" on Broadway
Ibsen's "Ghosts" at BAM
Neil LaBute's "The Way We Get By" at The Second Stage
Ars Nova and The Soho Rep's "Futurity"
"Henry IV" at St. Ann's Warehouse
New York Classic Theatre's "The Taming of the Shrew" in Prospect Park

Worst of 2015

Lucas Hnaf's "The Christians" at Playwrights Horizons
Sam Shephard's "Fool For Love" on Broadway
Naomi Wallace's "Night is a Room" at Signature
Bruce Norris's "The Qualms" at Playwrights Horizons
Halley Peiffer's "I'm Going to Pray for You So Hard" at The Atlantic Theatre
The Druid Theatre's "The History Plays" at Lincoln Center
Mike Bartlett's "King Charles III" on Broadway
Branden Jacob-Jenkins's "Gloria" at The Vineyard Theatre
Jez Butterworth's "The River" at The Circle in the Square
Todd Allmond's "Iowa" at Playwrights Horizons
Wendy Wasserstein's "The Heidi Chronicles" on Broadway
Howard Barker's "Scenes from an Execution" at The Atlantic Theatre Company


Not Perfect But Pretty Good

 Billy Joe Armstrong's "These Paper Bullets" at The Atlantic Theatre Company
Abe Koogler's "The Kill Floor" at Lincoln Center
Rajiv Joseph's "Guards at the Taj" at The Atlantic Theatre Company
Bedlam's "New York Animals" at The Ohio Theatre
Ayad Akhtar's "The Invisible Hand"  at NYTW
Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance" on Broadway
Christopher Wheeldon's "An American in Paris" on Broadway
Sophocles' "Antigone" at BAM


I also enjoyed several Muldoon's Picnics at the Irish Arts Center and stand-alone performances of "Three Men" by Michael Folie  and "The Dictator" by the Lebanese playwright Issam Mahfouz translated by Robert Myers.