In today’s Wall Street Journal I talk about the shows, directors, performers, and theater companies that made the strongest and most favorable impressions on me in the year just past.
Among those mentioned:
• Best new play: Stephen Adly Guirgis’ The Motherf**ker with the Hat
• Best revival: Classic Stage Company’s The Cherry Orchard
• Best musical revivals: Porgy and Bess at Chicago’s Court Theatre and Show Boat at Connecticut’s Goodspeed Musicals
• Best Shakespeare revival: Amanda Dehnert’s Julius Caesar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival
• Performer of the year: Chicago’s Carrie Coon
To find out what and who else delighted me in 2011, go here.
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Carrie Coon talks about the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in which she appeared earlier this year. The production, directed by Pam MacKinnon and also starring Tracy Letts, is scheduled to transfer to Broadway in the fall of 2012:
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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