My favorite revivals — plays and musicals alike — of the 2019-2020 (non-Broadway) theatre season:
PLAYS
Summa Cum Laude
- A Raisin in the Sun (WTF)
- Fires in the Mirror (Signature)
- Sincerity Forever (Flea)
- Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA)
- Not I (Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival @ BRIC)
- Bad Penny (Flea)
Magna Cum Laude
- Adrienne Truscott’s (Still) Asking For It (A Stand-Up Rape About Comedy Starring Her Pussy and Little Else!) (Joe’s Pub)
- The Young Man from Atlanta (Signature)
Cum Laude (AKA: everything else I saw, listed alphabetically)
- A Bright Room Called Day (Public)
- Antigone (Shizuoka Performing Arts Center @ Park Avenue Armory)
- Blues for an Alabama Sky (Keen @ Theatre Row)
- Caesar & Cleopatra (Gingold Theatrical Group @ Theatre Row)
- Constellations (Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival @ La Mama)
- Coriolanus (Public’s Delacorte)
- Curse of the Starving Class (Signature)
- Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth (Potomac Theatre Project/NYC @ Atlantic Stage 2)
- DruidShakespeare: Richard III (Druid @ White Light Festival Lincoln Center)
- Dublin Carol (Irish Rep)
- Dying City (2ST)
- For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Public)
- Ghosts (Williamstown Theatre Festival)
- Hamlet (Shakespeare Theatre Company @ Sidney Harman Hall)
- Hamlet (Gate Theatre @ St. Ann’s Warehouse)
- Judgement Day (Park Avenue Armory)
- Mac Beth (Red Bull @ Hunter Theater Project)
- Macbeth (CSC)
- Midsummer: A Banquet (Food of Love / Third Rail Projects @ Café Fae)
- Molly Sweeney (Keen @ Theatre Row)
- Much Ado About Nothing (Public’s Delacorte)
- Pumpgirl (Irish Rep)
- spunk (Signature, Washington DC)
- The Crucible (Bedlam @ Connelly Theater)
- The Woman in Black (McKittrick)
- Timon of Athens (TFANA)
MUSICALS
Summa Cum Laude
- Little Shop of Horrors (x2: @ Westside)
Magna Cum Laude
- Mack & Mabel (Encores! @ City Center)
Cum Laude
- Evita (City Center)
- Mud / Drowning (Mabou Mines @ Performance Space)
- Promenade (Encores! Off-Center @ City Center)
- Rock of Ages (New World Stages)
- The Bacchae (Classical Theatre of Harlem @ Marcus Garvey Park)
- The Sorceress (National Yiddish Theatre Folksbien @ Museum of Jewish Heritage)
- Working (Encores! Off-Center @ City Center)