I would like to offer my list of the TOP TEN BEST PLAYS and the 5 LEAST FAVORITE PLAYS for 2024. This year I was able to take in 43 plays – and I assure you that my list is totally unlike ANY of the various people that review NYC theatre. It is ironic for me to note that my very favorite play of 2024 – Our Class – was produced by the very same company that produced the second to worst play that I saw all year – The Merchant of Venice. I have NO idea what happened to this company in the month in between productions – but it wasn’t good! Please click on the title of the following plays to read the full review:
I would like to offer my list of the TOP TEN BEST PLAYS and the TOP THREE WORST PLAYS that I saw in 2023. This year I was able to take in 27 plays – and I assure you that my list is totally unlike ANY of the various people that review NYC theatre. Please click on the title of the following plays to read the full review:
I would like to offer my list of the TOP TEN BEST PLAYS and the TOP FIVE WORST PLAYS that I saw in 2022. This year I was able to take in 17 plays – (that damn virus finally over!) and I assure you that my list is totally unlike ANY of the various people that review NYC theatre. Please do click on the title of the following plays to read the full review:
To see Take Me Out – is to meet the Yondr pouches (which I’d never heard of). Basically, it’s a thick case locker for your phone that you keep with you. The phone is locked up and inaccessible to you for the duration of your time in the theater, however is still on your person. I asked why this rather extreme and time intensive solution to having cell phones going off during the production – then I was told that that was only a side benefit. The reason that they are doing it in this show is because the actors in their contract wanted it to be impossible for the audience to take pictures of them especially since they are nude a good portion of the play. Makes sense! But, boy was it funny to watch the audience do without cell phones waiting for the curtain. That Playbill program never got read as much as it got read at Take Me Out. As soon as the intermission came you could see how desperately they wanted to spend time with their cell phone. Their texting thumbs had nothing to do. Then, right after the curtain call, they raced to get their phones removed from the security pockets. Never has a reunion meant so much.
It seems like forever that I remember two ushers talking to each other after a matinee performance of The Minutes and one of them mentioning that a third usher was not going to be able to come to work that evening because she had a strange and very strong virus. Little did I know that that evening’s performance was going to be cancelled and so was all of theatre around the world going to be cancelled for the 459 days. It was a VERY rare snow day that could close Broadway – it seemed like it could survive anything but no – – this virus was a different matter entirely. But now things are slowly beginning to loosen up. Theatres are beginning to announce their seasons – most of which will launch in September and October of this year. I cannot wait. I built much of my retirement plans around the idea that I would be skipping off to NYC frequently, stay at my pied-à-terre, and watch theatre with abandon.
