A user on the broadwayworld.com message board asked, "Do the critics like any shows?" Like many other theatergoers who read theater reviews by the critics, I imagine that this user has noticed quite a few negative reviews lately. Just looking at the ben-o-meter at didhelikeit.com, there have been a few thumbs down lately for recent Broadway openings: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Bonnie & Clyde, Stick Fly, The Mountaintop, etc. I mean, thank goodness for Hugh Jackman!!
Since this is year end, my advice to the user peijenna is check out the "Best Of" lists, which are now being published. Here is what we have so far:
Sweet and Sad
Sleep No More
The Book of Mormon
Follies
Jerusalem
Cymbeline
Sons of the Prophet
Arcadia
School For Lies
Other Desert Cities
Honorable Mentions: The Cherry Orchard
Star of the Year: Nina Arianda
Moment of Surprise Greatness: Good People - Frances McDormand
Best Puppetry Movement: War Horse
Biggest Disappointment: Catch Me If You Can
Biggest Comeback: Jon Robin Baitz, David Henry Hwang, and Larry Kramer
Most Exciting Newcomer: Chinglish - Jennifer Lim
Most Underrated: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Most Overrated: War Horse
War Horse
The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess
Chinglish
Death Takes a Holiday
Sleep No More
Silence! The Musical
The Normal Heart
The Book of Mormon
Traces
Anything Goes
Time Out New York - David Cote (Theater Editor)
Jersusalem
The Book of Mormon
Good People
4000 Miles
The Intelligent Homosexual Guide to Socialism and Capitalism with a Key to the Scriptures
Blood and Gifts
Seminar
The Cherry Orchard
War Horse
Elective Affinities
Time Out New York - Adam Feldman (Associate Theater Editor)
Good People
The Normal Heart
Follies
The Intelligent Homosexual Guide to Socialism and Capitalism with a Key to the Scriptures
The Method Gun
The Book of Mormon
Jerusalem
Hand to God
Tom Ryan........
Once
Honorable Mentions: By the Way, Meet Vera Stark; Chinglish; The Hallway Trilogy; The Illusion; The Life and Death of King John; King Lear (BAM); The Motherf**ker with the Hat; The Patsy and Jonas; The Select (The Sun Also Rises); The Shaggs: Philosophy of the World; Sleep No More; Sons of the Prophet; Swan!!!; Three Sisters; Traces; Venus in Fur
The Book of Mormon
Jerusalem
Other Desert Cities
Being Harold Pinter
The Mother____ with the Hat
The Normal Heart
Good People
Follies
The Cherry Orchard
Sweet and Sad
Belleville (Yale Repertory Theater)
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Blood and Gifts
4000 Miles
Jerusalem
Kin
The Mother____ with the Hat
Sons of the Prophet
Venus in Fur
The Walk Across America for Mother Earth (LaMaMa)
Newsday
– Linda Winer
War Horse
The Book of Mormon
Other Desert Cities
Follies
The Mother____ with the Hat
The Normal Heart
Sons of the Prophet
Good People
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad
Zoo
Jerusalem
An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin / Hugh
Jackman, Back on Broadway
Entertainment Weekly - Thom Geier
The Book of Mormon
Sleep No More
Other Desert Cities
Anything Goes
Blood and Gifts
Three Sisters (Off Broadway) and Uncle Vanya (Washington DC)
Follies
War Horse
High Jackman, Back on Broadway
The Intelligent Homosexual Guide to Socialism and Capitalism with a Key to the Scriptures
Honorable Mentions: Good People, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Normal Heart, Sons of the Prophet
Associated Press - Mark Kennedy
The Book of Mormon
War Horse
Anything Goes
Other Desert Cities
Venus in Fur
Mark Rylance - La Bete and Jerusalem
Sleep No More
Seminar
Good People
Gatz
MyCentralJersey.com - Bill Canacci
War Horse
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Follies
The Normal Heart
Other Desert Cities
Standing on Ceremony - The Gay Marriage Plays
The Book of Mormon
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Wood
NY Post - Elisabeth Vincentelli
As You Like It (Lincoln Center Festival at the Park Avenue Armory)
The Book of Mormon
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
The Comedy of Errors
Good People
Once
Other Desert Cities (Vivian Beaumont Theatre)
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
Sons of the Prophet
War Horse
Entertainment Weekly - Thom Geier
The Book of Mormon
Sleep No More
Other Desert Cities
Anything Goes
Blood and Gifts
Three Sisters (Off Broadway) and Uncle Vanya (Washington DC)
Follies
War Horse
High Jackman, Back on Broadway
The Intelligent Homosexual Guide to Socialism and Capitalism with a Key to the Scriptures
Honorable Mentions: Good People, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Normal Heart, Sons of the Prophet
Associated Press - Mark Kennedy
The Book of Mormon
War Horse
Anything Goes
Other Desert Cities
Venus in Fur
Mark Rylance - La Bete and Jerusalem
Sleep No More
Seminar
Good People
Gatz
MyCentralJersey.com - Bill Canacci
War Horse
Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Follies
The Normal Heart
Other Desert Cities
Standing on Ceremony - The Gay Marriage Plays
The Book of Mormon
Peter and the Starcatcher
The Wood
NY Post - Elisabeth Vincentelli
As You Like It (Lincoln Center Festival at the Park Avenue Armory)
The Book of Mormon
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
The Comedy of Errors
Good People
Once
Other Desert Cities (Vivian Beaumont Theatre)
The Select (The Sun Also Rises)
Sons of the Prophet
War Horse
Anything
Goes
Chinglish
Follies
Good People
Hugh
Jackman — Back On Broadway
Other
Desert Cities
The Book of
Mormon
The
Importance of Being Earnest
The Normal Heart
War Horse
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