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Category Archives: Best of the Year
Time: Best Theater of 2021
This week, deputy editor Eben Shapiro of Time magazine published his list of “The 10 Best Theater Performances of 2021,” honoring “the best theater had to offer in this year when audiences returned, sometimes tentatively, to their seats and performers … Continue reading
Guardian: Favorite Stage Shows of 2021
The culture editors of The Guardian have curated a selection of theatrical offerings from around the U.K. that were among the favorites of their readers this past year. Four musicals made the list, including with the London revival of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anything Goes, Fisherman’s Friends, Leicester, Sheffield, Sunset Boulevard, The Addams Family, Truro
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Los Angeles Times: Best Theater of 2021
This week, Los Angeles Times critic Charles McNulty offered “ten reasons to be grateful in another sputtering theatrical year.” He noted some “memories that cry out for commemoration,” since “ranking of the best productions of 2021 makes little sense in … Continue reading
Chicago Tribune: Best Theater of 2021
Yesterday, Chicago Tribune theater critic Chris Jones published his choices for the ten best shows in the Chicago area during the past year, including seven musical offerings. Two productions still running are Cinderella, a revival of the Rodgers & Hammerstein … Continue reading
New York Times: Best Theater of 2021
This weekend, the New York Times theater staff gave their list of the best productions from the past year, both online and in-person. Among its 10 “Streaming Highlights” were Jason Robert Brown’s 2001 two-hander The Last Five Years, presented by Out … Continue reading
Best Musical Moments of 2020
In this unusual year, there wasn’t the usual amount of musical offerings. Broadway stages, movie houses, and TV productions all shut down in March. But some shows did premiere before the lockdown, some series did restart production (with health precautions … Continue reading
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Tagged BD Wong, Beauty and the Beast, Cambodian Rock Band, Dan Mertzlufft, Hamilton, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Katy Keene, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Mary Neely, Riverdale, Songs from an Unmade Bed, Stephen Sondheim, Take Me to the World, Thanksgiving, The Unsinkable Molly Brown
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Billboard 2020 Year-End Charts
Billboard magazine has released its year-end charts. For 2020, the magazine teamed up with Google to debut a new chart that tracked the most popular songs searched for in Google’s “Hum to Search” feature on its new app. Among the 100 … Continue reading
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Tagged Frozen, Frozen II, Hamilton, Idina Menzel, Max Charles, Mean Girls, Taylor Louderman, The Lion Guard
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Best of 2012: Top 10 New Musicals
Musical theater was “alive and kicking” this year, with debuts from new writers and comebacks from veteran scribes. Below is my list of the Top Ten new pieces of musical theater that debuted in the past 12 months – with … Continue reading
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Tagged Bring It On, Broadway musical, Christmas Story, Civil War Christmas, Dogfight, Forbidden Broadway, Giant, Hunchback Variations, Natasha Pierre & the Great Comet, Newsies, Off-Broadway musical, Off-Off-Broadway musical, Old Man & the Old Moon, Pasek & Paul
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Best of 2012: Top 10 Musical Revivals
New York saw a bevy of musical revivals this year, including a large pack of shows from the Eighties. There were also two prominent “revivals” of shows from the past five years, both presented at the Hirschfeld – though “remount” … Continue reading
Best of 2012: Top 10 Musical Films
It wasn’t a banner year for musical films, but there were more than enough to compose a list of the top ten movies that told their stories through fully realized song and dance moments – both the non-diegetic (musicalized dialogue) … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best, Carol Channing, Dolly Parton, film musical, Hank Williams, Hugh Jackman, Joyful Noise, Larger Than Life, Last Ride, Les Miserables, Lorax, Pitch Perfect, Rock of Ages, Sparkle, Step Up Revolution, Whitney Houston
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