Off Broadway ruled the year.
Expect to see a few of these shows uptown in 2020.
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Many of the most influentialand beautiful theater productions of this year were actually the best of previous years.
What used to be an out-of-town tryout is now just something that happens 35 blocks south of 42nd Street.
This is why a quite wonderful year on Broadway isnt reflected in the list below.
It means that producers trust audiences to understand weirder and riskier work, for one thing.
Its also exciting that all of them explicitly reconsider our suffrage-delaying, whiteness-coddling, wall-building country.
Let 2020 be the year of 2019.
Then, out of nowhere, the production executed one of the years neatest heel-turns.
9.Aint No Mo
Flight 1619 is now departing, America.
Is itsorelatable that a fool at a flower shop starts a fad that turns into Vegetable Alien Apocalypse?
And, honey, that was the tastefulpart.
Heres the joke: Ourbodiesare the cabaret, old chum.
No blood, no creepy clowns, nobody popping out in a hockey mask.
What if our friends are actually putting us in harms way?
What if, just asking questions here, sociopathy is more common than we think?
And what is it about a womans presence in the world that draws violence like a magnet?
Armed for war, the men crowd into her spare bedroom.Isthis a room?
Or is this our country?
As political theater, the show was hugely effective.
I joke about the lottery, but I would absolutely donate Kickstarter cash toward putting this on Broadway.
