My recap thus far of the 2018-2019 theatre season:
Today: plays!
This post will follow the same format outlined last week, with one exception:
As always, the first two subcategories are ranked in order of personal preference. BUT, this time, the third is listed without rhyme nor reason:
BEST
- Fairview (Soho Rep.)
- “Daddy” (Vineyard/New Group @ Signature)
- What to Send Up When It Goes Down (The Movement, A.R.T. NYC)
- A part of me wants to call it a musical…but that’s a discussion for another day.
- The Lehman Trilogy (National Theatre, Park Avenue Armory)
- [50/50] old school animation (Under the Radar, The Public)
- Nassim (Barrow Street, City Center)
- Hurricane Diane (WP Theater, NYTW)
- Ain’t No Mo’ (The Public)
- Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie (The Mad Ones, Ars Nova at Greenwich House)
- Catch As Catch Can (Page 73, New Ohio)
- Pass Over (LCT3)
- Endlings (A.R.T.)
- Usual Girls (Roundabout Underground)
- The Pain of My Belligerence (Playwrights Horizons)
- White Noise (The Public)
- PLANO (Clubbed Thumb, The Wild Project/Connelly Theater)
- Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi, Bushwick Starr)
- The Chinese Lady (Ma-Yi, Theatre Row)
- The Cold Record (Rude Mechs, Under the Radar, The Public)
- This American Wife (Next Door @ NYTW)
- Lewiston/Clarkston (Rattlestick)
BEST OF THE REST
- Log Cabin (Playwrights Horizons)
- Is This a Room (Half Straddle, The Kitchen)
- Something Clean (Roundabout Undeground)
- Fire in Dreamland (The Public)
- Recent Alien Abductions (The Play Company, Walkerspace)
- Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf (Elevator Repair Service, Abrons Arts Center)
- Do You Feel Anger? (Vineyard)
- Slave Play (NYTW)
- you & me (Mummenschanz, John Jay)
- The Pumpkin Pie Show Presents: One-on-Ones (UNDER St. Marks)
- Marjana and the Forty Thieves (Target Margin Theater)
- Bonnie’s Last Flight (Next Door @ NYTW)
- Thunderbodies (Soho Rep.)
- Skintight (Roundabout)
- Good Grief (Vineyard)
- Eve’s Song (The Public)
- Grief is the Thing With Feathers (Wayward/Complicite, St. Ann’s)
REST
- The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons)
- Seared (WTF)
- Fleabag (Soho Playhouse)
- Six Impossible Things (Wildrence)
- NERVOUS/SYSTEM (BAM Fisher, Next Wave)
- Plot Points in Our Sexual Development (LCT3)
- Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon (Strangemen Theatre Company, 59E59)
- The Light (MCC)
- Intractable Woman (The Play Company, Performance Space)
- The Jungle (London’s National Theatre / Young Vic, St. Ann’s)
- Spaceman (Loading Dock, Wild Project)
- The Mother (Atlantic)
- Whirlwind (Wild Project)
- INK: A Piece for Museums (Under the Radar, The Met)
- On Beckett (Irish Rep)
- The Emperor (TFANA)
- Trainspotting (Roy Arias Stages)
- Cyprus Avenue (Royal Court, The Public)
- Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties; In Essence, A Queer and Occasionally Hazardous Exploration; Do You Remember When You Were in Middle School and You Read About Shackleton and How He Explored the Antarctic?; Imagine the Antarctic as a Pussy and It’s Sort of Like That (MCC)
- Ashes (Plexus Polaire, HERE)
- Noura (Playwrights Horizons)
- The Courtroom (Waterwell, Judson Memorial Church)
- Emma and Max (Flea)
- Marys Seacole (LCT3)
- Socrates (Onassis Festival, The Public)
- Accidentally Brave (DR2 Theatre)
- 17 Border Crossings (NYTW)
- Hatef**k (Colt Coeur/WP Theater)
- The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm)
- Travisville (EST)
- Girls & Boys (Royal Court, Audible, Minetta Lane)
- Dan Cody’s Yacht (Manhattan Theatre Club)
- Agnes (Lesser America, 59E59)
- Eat the Devil (The Tank)
- Mother of the Maid (Public)
- Wonders at Dusk (McKittrick)
- Frankenstein (Manual Cinema, Under the Radar, The Public)
- If Pretty Hurts Ugly Must Be a Muhfucka (Playwrights Horizons)
- As Far As My Fingertips Take Me (Under the Radar, Public)
- The Damned (Comédie-Française, Park Avenue Armory)
- Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC)
- Strange Window: The Turn of the Screw (BAM Harvey, Next Wave)
- I Was Most Alive with You (Playwrights Horizons)
- The Convent (Rattlestick, A.R.T. NYC)
- Generation NYZ (La Mama)
- Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi, The Public)
- SKINNAMARINK (Little Lord, Next Door @ NYTW)
- Nantucket Sleigh Ride (LCT)
- Queen of Basel (Studio) — Washington, D.C.
- Days of Rage (2st)
- The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW)
- The True (New Group, Signature)
- Wild Goose Dreams (The Public)
- Mary Page Marlowe (2st)
- The Niceties (MTC)
- Blue Ridge (Atlantic)
- Pollock (Abrons)
- HEAR WORD! Naija Woman Talk True (Under the Radar, The Public)
- Final Follies (Primary Stages, Cherry Lane)
- The Things That Were There (Abingdon, Bushwick Starr)
- Fireflies (Atlantic)
- Borders (Next Door @ NYTW)
- Dangerous House (WTF)
- About Alice (TFANA)
- Joan (Colt Coeur, HERE)
- Eddie and Dave (Atlantic)
- The Song of Summer (Trinity Rep)
- Behind the Sheet (EST)
- Good Friday (Flea)
- God Said This (Primary Stages, Cherry Lane)
- Radio Delirio (Wooster Group)
- The Hard Problem (LCT)
- Apologia (Roundabout)
- India Pale Ale (MTC)
- Life Sucks. (Wheelhouse, Wild Project
- Minor Character (New Saloon, Under the Radar, Public)
- Imagining Madoff (New Light Theater Project, 59E59)
- Gloria: A Life (Daryl Roth Theater)
- Nylon (Blockchain Theater Project, Theaterlab)
- Adam (National Theatre of Scotland, Skirball)
- Actually, We’re Fucked (Cherry Lane)
- Downstairs (Primary Stages, Cherry Lane)
- Five Easy Pieces (NYU Skirball)
- JACK & (BAM Next Wave, Fisher)
- The Cake (MTC)
- The Neurology of the Soul (Untitled Theater Company #61, A.R.T. NYC)
- Secret Life of Humans (Brits Off Broadway, 59E59)
- Grey Rock (La Mama)
- Ionesco Suite (Théâtre de la Ville, BAM Fisher)
- The Enigmatist (Highline Hotel)
- I Hear You and Rejoice (Irish Arts)
- Intelligence (Dutch Kills, Next Door @ NYTW)
- LaBute New Theater Festival (Davenport)
- Private Peaceful (TBG)
- Natural Shocks (WP)
- On Blueberry Hill (Fishamble, 59E59)
- Red State Blue State (Audible, Minetta Lane)
- Awake (Barrow Group)
- The Gods of Comedy (McCarter)
- Surely, Goodness, and Mercy (Keen, Theatre Row)
- Smart Blonde (59E59)
- SKIN (Broken Box Mime Theater, A.R.T. NYC)
- Maestro (Ensemble for the Romantic Century, Duke)
- I’m Not A Comedian … I’m Lenny Bruce (Cutting Room)
- My Life on a Diet (St. Clement’s)
- Vitaly: Evening of Wonders (Westside)
- The Closet (WTF)
- Vilna (Theatre at Clement’s)
- After (59E59)
