The Best Theater in 2012

It's that time of year when everyone tries to condense everything that was wonderful and amazing about this year into a simple list of 10. So, here is the running list of the "best of" or most memorable moments in theater in 2012 (#theater2012). List is updated as new lists are published. 

New York Post - Elisabeth Vincentelli

1.   Assistance
2.   Detroit
3.   Gob Squab's Kitchen (You've Never Had It So Good)
4.   Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
5.   One Man, Two Guvnors
6.   3C
7.   Tribes
8.   Uncle Vanya (LCT) 
9.   We Are Proud to Present a Presentation...
10. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 



The Huffington Post - Bess Rowen

1.   Untitled Feminist Show
2.   Golden Boy 
3.   The Freedom of the City
4.   pool (no water) 
5.   The Island; Or To Be or Not To Be
6.   Motel Cherry
7.   Restoration Comedy
8.   NY Neos: On the Future, You Are In An Open Field, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind
9.   Melancholy Play (a new chamber piece) 
 
Time Out New York - David Cote

1.   Golden Boy
2.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3.   Death of a Salesman
4.   One Man, Two Guvnors
5.   Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep)
6.   Glengarry Glenn Ross 
7.   Detroit 
8.   Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 
9.   A Map of Virtue
10. If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet 
 

Time Out New York - Adam Feldman

1.   Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812
2.   The Piano Lesson
3.   Tribes
4.   Golden Boy
5.   We Are Proud to Present a Presentation...
6.   The Material World 
7.   A Map of Virtue
8.   Hurt Village 
9.   The Twenty-Seventh Man
10. 3C 



New York Times - Ben Brantley
(in alphabetical order)

-    The Cockfight Play
-    Harper Regan
-    Mies Julie
-    Neutral Hero
-    Once
-    One Man, Two Guvnors 
-    Peter and the Starcatcher
-    Sorry
-    Then She Fell
-    Uncle Vanya (LCT) 

New York Times - Charles Isherwood

1.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
2.   Detroit
3.   The Piano Lesson 
4.   Title and Deed
5.   The Iceman Cometh
6.   A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder
7.   Golden Boy
8.   Disgraced 
9.   Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep)
10. One Man, Two Guvnors 


Entertainment Weekly

1.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
2.   Giant
3.   One Man, Two Guvnors
4.   Death of a Salesman
5.   Tribes
6.   Newsies
7.   Rapture, Blister, Burn
8.   The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess  
9.   The Heiress
10. Once 


Associated Press 

1.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 
2.   Once
3.   Clybourne Park 
4.   One Man, Two Guvnors 
5.   Neil Patrick Harris as Tony Awards host
6.   Richard III 
7.   If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
8.   The sad death of Marvin Hamlisch
9.   A Christmas Story, The Musical
10. Forbidden Broadway 


The New Yorker

1.   Golden Boy
2.   Death of a Salesman 
3.   Peter and the Starcatcher
4.   Title and Deed
5.   Timons of Athens
6.   Tribes
7.   Richard III 
8.   Clybourne Park 
9.   The Whale 
10. The Piano Lesson 

Bloomberg

1.   Death of a Salesman
2.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3.   Disgraced
4.   Sorry
5.   February House 
6.   Slowgirl 
7.   Uncle Vanya (Soho Rep and LCT) 
8.   Signature Theater Complex three-theater complex - Athol Fugard's Blood Knot, My Children! My Africa! and The Train Driver
9.   One Man, Two Guvnors
10. Detroit 


Time Magazine

1.   4000 Miles
2.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3.   Forbidden Broadway: Alive & Kicking
4.   End of the Rainbow
5.   Louis CK on Tour
6.   Grace
7.   A Christmas Story: The Musical
8.   One Man, Two Guvnors
9.   Detroit
10. Annie 

New York Magazine

1.   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2.   Tribes
3.   Sorry
4.   Death of a Salesman
5.   Cock
6.   The black-box conjurations - We Are Proud to Present...; Blood Play; and Samuel & Alasdair: A Personal History of the Robot War 
7.   Detroit
8.   Annie Baker's Uncle Vanya
9.   The Unmusicals - Peter and the Starcatcher; The Old Man and the Moon; Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812; and One Man, Two Guvnors. 
10. Clybourne Park