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first tier
* Signature Theater’s revival of August Wilson’s Two Trains
Running, directed by Lou Bellamy, with fine performances by Frankie Faison, Ron Cephas Jones, and January Leroy
* Classical Theater of Harlem’s revival of Marat/Sade, with environmental staging by Christopher McElroen and remarkable ensemble cast headed by T. Ryder Smith as Marat
* Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon on Broadway with powerful performance by Frank Langella as Nixon
* Rinde Eckert’s Horizon at New York Theater Workshop, directed by David Schweizer with excellent supporting performance by David Barlow and set by Alexander Nichols
* David Greenspan’s essay on Aristotle, The Argument (Target Margin at the
Kitchen)
* Elevator Repair Service’s Gatz at the Philadelphia
Live Arts Festival with astonishing lead performance by Scott Shepherd
* Edward Albee’s Peter and Jerry at the Second Stage
Theater, beautifully directed by Pam McKinnon, great performance by Johanna Day
* The Wooster Group’s Hamlet at the Public Theater, ever-devilish direction by Liz LeCompte
* Ivo van Hove’s staging of Moliere’s The Misanthrope at New York Theater Workshop (below)
* James Thiérrée’s divinely playful circus piece at BAM, Au Revoir Parapluie
second tier
* The Man of Mode at the National Theater in London, directed by Nicholas Hytner
* The revival of Wally Shawn’s The Fever with Scott Elliott’s acute direction
* Trip Cullman’s fine production of Terrence McNally’s Some
Men, excellent ensemble with stand-out performance by David Greenspan
(below, far right)
* August Wilson’s final play, Radio Golf, notable performances by Harry Lennix, John Earl Jelks, and Anthony Chisholm
* Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical In the Heights with spectacular choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler
* Salvage, part 3 of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast of
Utopia, masterfully staged by Jack O’Brien with fine performances by Martha Plimpton and Josh Hamilton and beautiful set by Bob Crowley
* Anne Kauffman’s staging of Jenny Schwartz’s God’s Ear on Kris Stone’s amazing set
* The return of Loy Arcenas’s beautiful production of The Romance of Magno Rubio
for Ma-Yi
* Leigh Silverman’s economical staging of The Beebo Brinker Chronicles
* John Tiffany’s choreographic staging of Black Watch at St. Ann’s Warehouse
* Sufjan Stevens’ quirky The BQE at BAM’s Next Wave Festival
* Tracy Letts’s August: Osage County with indelible performances by Amy Morton
(below left) and Deanna Dunagan (below right)
honorable mentions:
* Vanessa Redgrave’s haunting performance in Joan Didion’s
The Year of Magical Thinking
* Maggie Smith and Peter Francis James in Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque in London
* Richard Foreman’s Wake Up Mr. Sleepy, Your Unconscious Mind Is Dead (below right)
* Joan Greenwood’s costumes for Our Leading Lady and
Prelude to a Kiss
* Best Butt: Romain Frugé in Some Men
* Guilty Pleasure: Xanadu
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