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Here are the best shows that theater critics Sara Holdren and Jackson McHenry saw in 2024.
Theaters are reaching out to each other.
What it means is, despite a climate of continuous scarcity, and despite someinfuriating losses,morebrave art.
For me, the miraculous has often been scrappy this year, and vice versa.
10.On Set With Theda Bara
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Read ourfull review ofOn Set With Theda Bara.
9.Illinoise
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Leave your irony at the door.
Read ourfull review ofIllinoiseandconversation with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury.
8.The Marriage of Figaro
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(And thanks to Dan Schlosbergs deft arrangements, the whole thing came home in 90-ish minutes.)
Read ourfull review ofThe Marriage of Figaroandconversation with performer Anthony Roth Costanzo.
6.Grief Hotel
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Birkenmeiers humor is drought-dry, and Ahmadinejads actors nailed it.
Read ourfull review ofGrief Hotel.
5.The Wind and the Rain
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Read ourfull review ofThe Wind and the Rain.
4.We Are Your Robots
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What do playwrights and computer programmers have in common?
They both want to be musicians.
Read ourfull review ofWe Are Your Robots.
3.Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!
Sexy lady cockroaches, BDSM ponies, and meta-shenanigans!
I just thought we were talking about … you know … Read ourfull review ofGive Me Carmelita Tropicana!
2.Terce: A Practical Breviary
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Hail Heather, full of grace!
Read ourfull review ofTerce: A Practical Breviary.
1.Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists
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When the fascist starts talking, are you going to let him?
Its an old tradition that every family member has followed, he prompted them.
Its a day of celebration, beauty, and death.
The results, four years later, were nothing short of astonishing.
Rodriguess stunning script pits its characters in the most urgent debates: What does true resistance look like?
Is violence right in service of the oppressed?
What is our duty?
And talk, and talk, and talk.
People booed, screamed, shouted Fuck you!
and Shoot him!, stood and turned their backs, stood and left the theater.
Read ourfull review ofYellow Face.
I object to the silencing of scientists!
8.Jonah
Were lucky to have Gabby Beans performing in New York.
Read ourfull review ofJonah.
Read ourfull review ofMaybe Happy Ending.
6.Usus
Bros, what are we going to do about our crisis of faith?
Also, Ususis only play Ive seen where a monk self-mutilated while Justin Biebers Sorry blared in the background.
In George C. Wolfes twist on a bio-musical, given a thrilling revival via Encores!
Read ourfull review ofJellys Last Jam.
More effective than that, however, was Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauchs remix ofCatsinto a ballroom competition.
Read ourfull review ofCats: The Jellicle Ball.
the joys of dissecting a cadaver.
Read ourfull review ofDead Outlaw.
1.Oh, Mary!
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