Sunday, February 7, 2010

Theatre Viewings 2009

This list includes theatrical productions I saw between my arrival in New York City in August until the end of the year.

Time Period: August 17-December 31, 2009

Stand Out Production: Circle. Mirror. Transformation. by Annie Baker, Playwrights Horizons

Stand Out Playwright: Clay McLeod Chapman for The Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement, Under St. Marks

Longest Play: The Brother/Sister Plays (three parts, over seven hours), The Public Theater

Best Staging of a Classic Work: Our Town, Barrow Street Theatre

Best Set: The Royal Family, Manhattan Theatre Club

Best Musical: Finian’s Rainbow

Best Comedy: The Understudy

Furthest Away: Duchess in the Dark, Flux Factory, Queens

Play That Left Me with the Most Creative Question Marks: Orpheus X

Theatre 2009
NYMF indicates production was part of the New York Musical Theatre Festival

Family
Gesamtkunstwerk 2009
Gay Bride of Frankenstein (NYMF)
Circle. Mirror. Transformation.
Whatever Man (NYMF)
The Royal Family
The Cure (NYMF)
Brighton Beach Memoirs
Memphis
Our Town
After Miss Julie
The Pumpkin Pie Show: Commencement
Duchess in the Dark
Finian's Rainbow
Antigone
The Understudy
Fela!
Quartett
The Brother/Sister Plays
Creature
Carly Jibson is Not a Bitch...Not Yet a Woman
Hamlet
The Private Life of Inga Snyder
For Artists Only
Orpheus X

2 comments:

Kj said...

Who did the Hamlet production?

Ian said...

It was the one on Broadway with Jude Law that ran for a couple months in the fall, directed by Michael Grandage. There were some attractive bits of staging-snow effects, broad, flowing tapestries-and Jude Law seemed to have a firm grasp on the character but much of the production seemed distant, dull and empty.