VIEWPOINTS – The Best of 2019

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2019 is now officially a series of memories. Here are the best of them (in alphabetical order, by category).

 

BEST NEW PLAYS

  1. Ain’t No Mo’ (The Public Theater)
  2. BLKS (MCC Theater)
  3. Fleabag (SoHo Playhouse)
  4. Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons)
  5. Marys Seacole (Lincoln Center Theater)
  6. Something Clean (Roundabout Theatre Company)
  7. The Inheritance: Parts 1 and 2 (Ethel Barrymore Theatre)
  8. The Jungle (St. Ann’s Warehouse)
  9. The Lehman Trilogy (Park Avenue Armory)
  10. The Sound Inside (Studio 54 Theatre)

 

BEST NEW MUSICALS

  1. A Strange Loop (Playwrights Horizons)
  2. Ain’t Too Proud (Imperial Theatre)
  3. American Utopia (Hudson Theatre)
  4. Freestyle Love Supreme (Booth Theatre)
  5. Hadestown (Walter Kerr Theatre)
  6. Moulin Rouge (Al Hirschfeld Theatre)
  7. Octet (Signature Theatre Company)
  8. Six (Arts Theatre, London)
  9. The Secret Life of Bees (Atlantic Theater Company)
  10. The Wrong Man (MCC Theater)

 

BEST REVIVALS

  1. Betrayal (Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre)
  2. Fefu and Her Friends (Theatre for a New Audience)
  3. Fiddler on the Roof (Playhouse Theatre, London)
  4. for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (The Public Theatre)
  5. Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre)
  6. Promenade (Encores!)
  7. The Crucible (Bedlam)
  8. The Sean O’Casey Season (Irish Repertory Theatre)
  9. The Trial of Catonsville Nine (Transport Group)
  10. The Trojan Women (La MaMa)

 

BEST DANCE PERFORMANCES

  1. Attractor (The Joyce Theater)
  2. Black Whyte Gray (Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival)
  3. Jewels (New York City Ballet)
  4. L-E-V: Chapter 2 (The Joyce Theater)
  5. Nederlands Dans Theater 2 (New York City Center)
  6. Queen of Hearts (Company XIV)
  7. Ratmansky Trio (American Ballet Theatre)
  8. Swan Lake/Loch na hEala (BAM’s Next Wave Festival)
  9. The Great Tamer (BAM Next Wave Festival)
  10. William Forsythe: A Quiet Evening of Dance (The Shed)

 

BEST IN CLASSICAL MUSIC / OPERA

  1. Akhnaten (The Metropolitan Opera)
  2. Dialogues des Carmelites (The Metropolitan Opera)
  3. Los Angeles Philharmonic (David Geffen Hall)
  4. New York Philharmonic (opening program featuring Kelli O’Hara) (David Geffen Hall)
  5. Pelléas et Mélisande (The Metropolitan Opera)
  6. The Queen of Spades (The Metropolitan Opera)
  7. The Magic Flute (Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival)
  8. Triptych (Eyes of One on Another) (BAM)
  9. National Symphony Orchestra — Tristan und Isolde, Act II (Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival)
  10. MusicAeterna — Verdi’s Requiem (The Shed)

 

BEST IN OTHER PERFORMANCES (IMMERSIVE THEATER)

  1. Blackout (10th anniversary edition)
  2. Found (the cell)
  3. In Many Hands (BAM’s Next Wave Festival)

 

BEST IN OTHER PERFORMANCES (COMEDY)

  1. Daniel Sloss — X (SoHo Playhouse)
  2. Hannah Gadsby — Douglas (Daryl Roth Theatre)
  3. Jacqueline Novak — Get On Your Knees (Cherry Lane Theatre)
Categories: Broadway, Cabaret, Dance, Music, Off-Broadway, Opera, Other Music, Theater

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